KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ A Concert of Atonal Music by Josef Matthias Hauer

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

AM.1974.05.17

Program Length

29 min

Dates

1974-05-17 | broadcast
| 1974-05-17 | created

Description

From a concert recorded in 1974, Joseph Kubera and Julie Steinberg perform pieces for piano, written by the Austrian composer and musical theorist, Josef Matthias Hauer. After playing several unidentified works for solo piano, Kubera is joined by Steinberg in order to perform works for piano four hands. Hauer, a seminal figure in Austrian music, and the inspiration for a number of characters in novels by authors such as Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse, is perhaps most famous for developing a style of composing utilizing all 12 notes in the chromatic scale, independent of and years before Arnold Schoenberg. Many of his works share the same name of "Zwölftonspiel" (twelve-tone game), or “Zwölftonmusik" (twelve-tone music), two of which are featured in this concert.

Genres

20th century classical

Musical Selections

[unidentified piano solo] -- [unidentified piano solo] -- [unidentified piano solo] -- Zwölftonspiele for four hand piano [July 1952] -- Zwölftonspiele for four hand piano [July 1957] -- Labyrinthischer Tanz, Op. 3 (1953)

Performers

Joseph Kubera, piano (solos; Zwölftonspiele; Labyrinthischer)
Julie Steinberg, piano (Zwölftonspiele; Labyrinthischer)

Subjects

20th century classical
Piano music
Piano music (4 hands)

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Hauer, Josef Matthias, 1883-1959
Kubera, Joseph
Steinberg, Julie