Hermann Heiss

Hermann Heiss ( born December 29, 1897 in Darmstadt, † December 6, 1966 ) was a German composer with the creativity -focused twelve-tone and electronic music. His pseudonym was " Georg Frauenfelder ".

Life

After returning from American captivity, where he was first confronted with jazz, in 1919, he studied from 1921 to 1924 composition with Bernhard Sekles and piano with Hans Renner in Frankfurt / Main, in the following year, twelve-tone technique with Josef Matthias Hauer in Vienna. This period also saw the composition E F # D for Piano, hot drops a defining and seminal work. Afterwards (1926 and 1927 ) was followed by another study with Hoehn in Frankfurt am Main. From 1928 to 1933 he was the head music teacher at the Hermann Lietz - Schule Spiekeroog. In 1932, a study with Arnold Schoenberg in Berlin followed. During the war years he worked as a theory teacher at the Army School of Music in Frankfurt / Main, during this period that works for military band (eg " Festive Concert" ).

In 1939 he married the dancer Maria Muggenthaler, student of Mary Wigman. This marriage produced two sons: Johann Wendelin (1940 ) and Nicholas Michael ( 1943).

1944 90 per cent of his works were destroyed in an allied air raid on Darmstadt. From 1946 he was a lecturer at the Kranichsteiner Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt ( teacher of music theory and composition ).

After the award of the Büchner Prize in 1948 hot worked from 1953 as director of a master class in composition at the Municipal Academy of Music in Darmstadt; Lectures, courses and composition evenings to all West German radio stations, universities and conservatories followed. The establishment of a studio of Electronic Composition in 1955, followed by the development of the hot - Vollmer tape recorder for rational processing of the tape.

In 1950, his essay " The athematic tonal movement " on the exhaustion of all sounding options.

In 1957, the Goethe Medal of the State of Hesse, he was awarded in 1958 the Heinrich Merck ceremony. On 21 May 1960, the " world premiere " of a composed of hot electronic music took place in the Municipal Theatre Aschaffenburg, during the Viennese artist Markus Prachensky for half an hour 350 liters left red color run down on an almost vertical giant screen. The action came on a different echo.

In 1964 his " Missa - Electronic fair for alto, tenor, acc. Choir and electronic sounds " in Klosterneuburg near Vienna for the premiere; this was later listed in Milan and Söcking at Starnberg. Here the singers no notes, but diagrams were presented (pitch / duration on the time scale ), which gave them greater freedom for the intonation.

Quote

To " peritoneal " (all sounding possibilities comprehensive ) Tonbewegungslehre from elements of musical composition in 1949:

" Instrumental and vocal set are clearly separated; after the period of instrumental conditional, dogmatic twelve-tone open the possibility of a meaningful handling of change levels and movement capacity of sound, sound (color), rhythm, time rate, thickness and height of new aspects for a free way of composing, which finds its bond in the audibility and their shape wins out of the movement, in its origin is unthematically, but can form a continuum for the spin-off of subject matter.. The Next below to electronic way of composing was inevitable " (published in: Meyers Manual of the music, 4th edition 1971)

Works (selection)

  • "Requiem" for soprano, alto, string quartet
  • Chamber and piano songs: among others texts by Gottfried Benn, Franz Kafka, Erich Kästner, Christian Morgenstern and his own texts
  • Piano works: Chaconne 1); Capricci ritmici 1); Modes I 1) and II; Sonatas and Chimes for wings with auxiliary instruments
  • Choral Music: Angelus Silesius cycle; " A little while ", 29 children's songs ( approximately 1943, dedicated to his son Johann Wendelin ) in a songbook, 9 of them sung by a children's choir and recorded on tape (1955, W. Müller, Heidelberg), 2013 CD dubbed ( by son Johann Wendelin )
  • Cantata ... and they spread unrest ( partisans of the universe ) in 1951 in memory of Arnold Schoenberg
  • Ballet music, among others Alice Kaluza, Tatjana Gsovsky and stage dance games, eg " The Manager"
  • Symphonies and orchestral music: " Sinfonia giocosa "; " Sinfonia atematica "; " Configurationen I and II in accordance with captions by Paul Klee"
  • Radio ballad: " The glorious failure of aviator Captain K. "; Hörspielmusik: musique concrete, electronic assemblies Phono
  • Electronic Music: Electronic Composition I 2 ), II, III. IV; Missa - Electronic fair for Klosterneuburg " for alto, tenor, narrator, choir and electronic tape
  • Pause character of the Hessischer Rundfunk 1955 ( used until 1988 )
  • On record
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