Hartmann, Karl Amadeus 1905 - 1963
Author: Saitoh, Noriko
Last updated：August 1, 2008
Author: Saitoh, Noriko
German composer. His representative works are his eight symphonies, which were influenced by various composers such as Bruckner, Mahler, Reger, Stravinsky, Bartók, and Berg. He studied at the Munich Academy of Music and was a pupil of Webern in Vienna. Under the Nazi regime, he was prohibited from public activities, and most of his early works were destroyed by Hartmann himself, with the exception of a few pieces premiered abroad. After World War II, he founded "Musica Viva" in Munich and organized a series of contemporary music concerts. Eventually, his works gained recognition, and he was awarded the Munich City Music Prize and elected as a member of the academies of arts in Berlin and Bavaria.
Hartmann composed by incorporating diverse techniques, such as fugal and variation methods, and mirror structures on horizontal and vertical planes, all within a framework of tonality extended almost to atonality and chromatic polytonality.
Works(6)
Concerto (1)
concerto (2)
Chamber Music (1)
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