Peter Stadlen

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Peter Stadlen (born July 14, 1910 in Vienna ; † January 21, 1996 in London ) was a composer , pianist and musicologist who dealt in particular with the authentic interpretation of Beethoven's works .

Life

Stadlen, who was born in Vienna, premiered Anton Webern's Variations for Piano Op. 27 there in 1937 . He was also the soloist of the European premiere of Arnold Schönberg's Piano Concerto op. 42. After the “Anschluss” he had to leave Austria and emigrated to England . After the outbreak of war he was interned in Australia as an enemy alien in 1940/1941 . In 1946 he became a British citizen.

Due to a neurological disease, he was later forced to give up playing the piano. In 1959 he became a music critic at the Daily Telegraph , for which he worked for 26 years, the last ten years as chief critic.

For many years, Stadlen dealt with Beethoven's metronome markings , which some interpreters doubt and consider to be too fast.

He was born in 1946 with the philosopher Hedi Stadlen . Simon (1916–2004) married and had two sons, Nikolaus and Godfrey. His estate ended up in the archive of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna.

Essays

  • Critique of the serial , in: Musica , Jg. 13 (1959), pp. 89-98
  • Die Webern-Legende , in: Musica , Jg. 15 (1961), pp. 66-68
  • The Aesthetics of popular music , in: The British Journal of aesthetics , Vol. 2 (1962), No. 4th
  • Beethoven and the metronome: part I , in: Music and letters , vol. 48 (1967), pp. 330-349
  • Possibilities of an Aesthetic Evaluation of Beethoven's Sketches , in: Report on the International Musicological Congress, Bonn 1970 , ed. by Carl Dahlhaus , Hans Joachim Marx , Magda Marx-Weber, Günther Massenkeil, Kassel [u. a.]: Bärenreiter, 1971, pp. 111–117
  • Anton Webern, Variations for piano op.27, Webern's ideas of interpretation explained for the first time by Peter Stadlen on the basis of the facsimile of his working copy with Webern's instructions for the premiere , Vienna: Universal-Edition, approx. 1979
  • Schindler's Beethoven Forgeries , in: The Musical Times , Vol. 118 (1977), pp. 549-552
  • On Schindler's forgeries in Beethoven's conversation books , in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift , vol. 32 (1977), pp. 246-252
  • Schindler and the conversation books , in: Soundings , 1978, No. 7, pp. 2-18
  • Schindler and the conversation books , in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift , vol. 34 (1979), pp. 2-18
  • Berg's cryptography , in: Alban-Berg-Symposium 1980. Conference report , ed. by Rudolf Klein, Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1981, pp. 171–180
  • Beethoven and the metronome , in: Music Concepts , Munich: Ed. Text + Criticism, Volume 8 (1985), pp. 12–33
  • English musical life yesterday and today , in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift , vol. 41 (1986), pp. 130–141
  • 50 years later , in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift , vol. 43 (1988), pp. 194–196
  • Austria's musicians in exile in England , in: Austrian musicians in exile. Colloquium 1988 , ed. from the Austrian Society for Music, Kassel [u. a.]: Bärenreiter, 1990, pp. 125-133

Web links

Obituary for Peter Stadlen (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ internment a. a. together with Erich Stadlen and Albin Stuebs , see list Hay Internment Camp
personal data
SURNAME Stadlen, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, pianist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1996
Place of death London