Rudolph Reti
Rudolph Reti , also Rudolf Réti , (born November 27, 1885 in Užice , Serbia ; died February 7, 1957 in New Jersey ) was an Austro-American composer , pianist , music teacher and employee of the publishing house. He was the older brother of the chess grandmaster Richard Réti .
Life
Rudolf Réti was a son of the doctor Samuel Réti and Anna Meyer. He studied music in Vienna and graduated in 1905 and received his doctorate in 1910. In 1911 he led the Three Piano Pieces of Arnold Schoenberg on. Reti was an Austro-Hungarian officer in the First World War from 1914 to 1918. In 1922 he was a co-founder of the International Society for New Music . Reti fled to the USA after the annexation of Austria in 1938. There he wrote his central works “Thematic Process in Music” (1951) and “Patterns in Sonatas of Beethoven” (1966). They influenced many contemporary music theorists.
literature
- Réti, Rudolf , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 962
- Réti, Rudolph , in: Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . 1980. Volume 15, p. 768
Web links
- Alexander Rausch : Rudolph Reti. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
- Michael Saffle: Réti, Rudolph. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 13 (Paladilhe - Ribera). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1133-0 , Sp. 1578–1579
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reti, Rudolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Réti, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian composer, pianist, music teacher and employee of the publishing house |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Užice |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1957 |
| Place of death | New Jersey |