KARL AMADEUS HARTMANN – CENTER

It is with great sadness that the Karl Amadeus Hartmann Society / Hartmann Centre bids farewell to one of the most important composers of the post-war period. Aribert Reimann died in Berlin at the age of 88. He was a founding member of the Hartmann Society and he and his works were welcome guests at our concerts.

The Karl Amadeus Hartmann Society / Hartmann Centre will always honour Aribert Reimann’s memory.

https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news-kritik/aribert-reimann-komponist-verstorben-nachruf-100.html

https://www.schott-music.com/de/blog/zum-tod-aribert-reimann-verstorben-1936-2024-nachruf/

We would like to draw your attention to an exciting concert by the ensemble risonanze erranti under the direction of Peter Tilling at the Schwere Reiter on 24 January 2024 at 8 pm. The occasion for the concert is the 100th birthday of the Italian composer Luigi Nono. The three composers of the evening – Luigi Nono, Hans Werner Henze and Karl Amadeus Hartmann – were linked by a close friendship and Hartmann is often cited as the mentor of the two much younger composers. The programme includes two works by Luigi Nono, his “Canti per 13” (1955) and the “Polifonica-Monodia-Ritmica per Ensemble” (1951) as well as Henze’s “Der Idiot” (1952) with paraphrases of Dostoyevsky on poems by Ingeborg Bachmann and Hartmann’s “Burleske Musik für Ensemble” (1931). In “Burleske Musik”, Hartmann takes up various musical trends of the time, including jazz elements, song style and allusions to Kurt Weill’s “Kleine Dreigroschenmusik”. The importance of “Burleske Musik” is also shown by the fact that it was not only his first work to appear in print, but was also dedicated to his future wife Elisabeth (born Reussmann).

You can find more information at https://www.schwerereiter.de/files/detail_cal.php?id=978

To mark the start of the new 2023/2024 season and his official inauguration as Chief Conductor of the Nuremberg State Philharmonic, conductor Roland Böer has come up with a very special programme for the first concert of the season, with performances of Hartmann’s Symphonic Hymns and Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony. Remaining tickets for the concert on Friday, 13 October are still available via the following link:

https://www.staatstheater-nuernberg.de/spielplan-23-24/gegen-den-strom/13-10-2023/2000

The BR Symphony Orchestra will perform some exciting and rarely played works from the 20th century at the Isarphilharmonie on 20./21. April (beginning at 8 pm). Tabea Zimmermann, currently the BRSO’s Artist in Residence, will conduct the concert from the viola. Karl Amadeus Hartmanns Symphony Nr. 4 for string orchestra(1938, rev. 1946-48) will open the concert. After Hartmann composed the work in 1938 as a symphony for string orchestra and soprano, however, there was initially no opportunity to perform it, as his compositions were considered “degenerate art” under the Nazis. Hartmann later reworked the work into his purely instrumental Fourth Symphony in 1946/1947, which finally premiered in Munich on 2. April 1948 with the “Radio Orchestra and guests of the Munich Philharmonic” conducted by Hans Rosbaud. The other works of the evening are “Lachrymae – Reflections on a Song of Dowland”, op. 48a for solo viola and string orchestra by Benjamin Britten (1976) and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony for String Orchestra, op. 110a after the String Quartet No. 8.

The concert will also be broadcasted live on the radio programme BR-Klassik on Friday, 21 April at 8 pm and will be available afterwards as audio at br-klassik.de.

The programme booklet and further information and tickets can be found at: https://www.br-so.de/tabea-zimmermann-p48663/

The Karl Amadeus Hartmann-Gesellschaft/Hartmann-Center mourns the death of its founding member Friedrich Cerha. The important Austrian composer and conductor died on 14 February in his hometown of Vienna just a few days before his 97th birthday. Cerha was a lifelong advocate of the performance of New Music and in 1958 he co-founded the Viennese ensemble “die reihe”, which under his baton gave international performances of the works of the Viennese School in particular.

The Karl Amadeus Hartmann-Gesellschaft/Hartmann-Center will always honour the memory of Friedrich Cerha.

https://universaledition.com/news/die-universal-edition-trauert-um-friedrich-cerha