Anton Webern, during this time editor at Universal Edition Vienna, asks Karl Amadeus Hartmann to send in various scores
Universal Edition Hartmann scores
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- 1941
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Anton Webern, during this time editor at Universal Edition Vienna, asks Karl Amadeus Hartmann to send in various scores
Start of cooperation with the music publisher B. Schott’s Söhne, Mainz
World premiere of the 1st string quartet in Geneva by the Végh-Quartett
Birth of the son Richard
World premiere (July 9) of the new version of “Simplicius Simplicissimus” at the Nationaltheater Mannheim (conductor: Karl Fischer, production: Joachim Klaiber and stage: Paul Walter)
Grand Art Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Performance of the 6th symphony at the IGNM festival in Zurich
Offer of a professorship at the Staatliche Musikhochschule Köln (rejected)
World premiere (22 June) of the new version of the 1st Symphony “Versuch eines Requiems” by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the Wiener Festwochen (conductor: Nino Sanzogno and soloist: Hilde Rössel-Majdan)
Performance of the 7th symphony at the IGNM festival in Cologne
Art Prize of the City of Berlin
Offer to become director of the Municipal Conservatory in Berlin (rejected)
Schwabing Art Prize
Honorary doctorate from the Spokane Conservatory, Washington (USA)
World premiere (January 25) of the 8th Symphony in Cologne by the WDR Symphony Orchestra (conductor: Rafael Kubelik)
Performances of the 8th Symphony at the Venice Biennale, the IGNM Festival in Amsterdam, the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt and at the Berliner Festwochen
World premiere of the ballet “Triptychon” by Heinz Rosen after the 7th Symphony during the opening ceremony of the rebuilt National Theatre in Munich
Music Award of the City of Munich
Scenic premiere (October 20) of “Simplicius Simplicissimus” in Cologne (conductor: Richard Kraus, production: Erich Bormann and stage: Walter Gondolf)
World premiere of the “Konzert für Bläserensemble und Kontrabässe” [Concerto for Wind Ensemble and Double Basses], intermediate stage to the 5th Symphony, in Zurich by Hermann Scherchen
World premiere of the 2nd string quartet in Milan by the Végh-Quartett