Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

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Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (born February 27, 1919 in Cracow ; † March 3, 1994 in Vienna ) was a Polish-Israeli music teacher, teacher and composer of new music in Cracow, Tel Aviv and Vienna.

Life

Haubenstock-Ramati studied composition , music theory , violin and philosophy in Kraków and Lemberg from 1937 to 1940 . He was a student of Artur Malawski and Józef Koffler . In 1939 his family fled from the Germans to Lemberg , which was incorporated into the Soviet Union due to the Hitler-Stalin Pact . Due to his multilingualism, he was arrested in 1941 shortly before the German attack on the Soviet Union on charges of espionage and deported to Tomsk via Odessa . There he was recruited for the Polish Anders Army and came to Palestine with the 2nd Polish Corps .

The arbitrary arrest by the Soviets in 1941 saved him from the Holocaust that killed his parents. In 1947 he returned to Poland, where he was head of the music department at the Krakow radio station until 1950. Since he still had a visa for Palestine, he and his wife Emilia were able to emigrate on the last official transport in 1950. From 1950 he was a professor at the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Music Academy , where he also directed the establishment of a central musical library. In 1957 he received a six-month scholarship for the Académie für Musique concrète in Paris, where he met Pierre Schaeffer . From 1958 to 1968 he was lecturer for new music at Universal Edition Vienna. In 1959 he curated the first exhibition of musical graphics at the Donaueschinger Musiktage .

He was also a guest lecturer and leader of composition seminars in Tel Aviv , Stockholm , Darmstadt , Bilthoven (Netherlands) and Buenos Aires , and from 1973 he was professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna , where he retired in 1989 . His most important students include Bruno Liberda , Beat Furrer , Mayako Kubo and Peter Ablinger .

In the early phase his compositions show the influence of Anton Webern and the row techniques . He turned to graphic notation techniques early on (for example in Séquences for violin and orchestral groups (1958), more intensively from 1970). Subsequently he also developed “variable music” or “mobiles”, in which the musical structure can be changed significantly at the discretion of the interpreter. Haubenstock-Ramati also worked as a graphic artist and painter .

Awards

Works

  • String Trio (1948)
  • Ricercari for string trio (1952)
  • Bénédictions / Blessings (1954 for soprano and 9 instruments)
  • Recitativo e aria (1955 for harpsichord and orchestra)
  • Les symphonies des timbres (1957 for orchestra)
  • Chants et prismes (1958 for orchestra)
  • Séquences (1958 for violin and orchestra)
  • Mobile for Shakespeare (1958 for voice and 6 players)
  • Credentials or think, think, Lucky (1960)
  • Petite Musique de Nuit (1960, mobile for orchestra)
  • Mobile for 6 percussionists (1960)
  • Assumptions about a Dark House (1964 for 3 orchestras)
  • America (opera 1961–1964), premier Deutsche Oper Berlin 1966, new version Graz 1992 under Beat Furrer based on Franz Kafka's novel Der Verschollene
  • Tableau I (1967 for orchestra)
  • Symphony K (1967 for orchestra)
  • Psalm (1968 for orchestra)
  • Jeux 2 (1969, mobile for 2 percussionists, as "Divertimento" also stage version)
  • Catch I (1968 for harpsichord)
  • Catch II (1969 for 1-2 pianos)
  • Catch III (1969 for organ )
  • Alone (1969 for trombone and a mime)
  • La comédie (1969, "Anti-Opera" for 3 speaking voices and 3 percussionists)
  • Models 1 - 12 (1970 for school orchestra)
  • Tableau II (1970 for orchestra)
  • Tableau III (1971 for orchestra)
  • Discours (1972 for guitar and speaking voice)
  • Comédie, Poetics for J. Joyce I et al. II (1972 for tape and live electronics )
  • First string quartet (1973)
  • Sonans for 6 vocalists (1974)
  • Concerto per archi (1976)
  • Second string quartet (1978)
  • Ulysses (ballet 1977)
  • Mobile for 16 pianos (1984)
  • Sign for SB (1988 for ensemble)
  • Sonata for piano (1983, rev 1989)
  • Second String Trio (1985)
  • Invocations (for chamber orchestra 1990)
  • Polyphonies for ensemble (1993)
  • Equilibre for 9 musicians (1993)

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personal data
SURNAME Haubenstock-Ramati, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1994
Place of death Vienna