Peter Stadlen

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

Life

Stadlen, who was born in Vienna, brought in 1937 Anton Webern's Variations for Piano, Op 27 for the premiere. In addition, he was the soloist in the European premiere of Arnold Schoenberg'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 1940/1941 as enemy alien. In 1946 he took on British citizenship.

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

Stadlen dealt for many years with Beethoven Metronomisierungen who doubt some performers and hold for too fast.

He was married since 1946 to the philosopher born Hedi Stadlen Simon ( 1916-2004 ) and left two sons, Nicholas and Godfrey. His estate passed into the archives of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna.

Papers

  • Criticism of the serial, in: Musica, Vol 13 (1959 ), pp. 89-98
  • The weavers legend, in: Musica, Vol 15 (1961 ), pp. 66-68
  • Beethoven and the Metronome: part I, in: Music and Letters, vol 48 (1967 ), pp. 330-349
  • Possibilites of an Aesthetic Evaluation of Beethoven 's Sketches, in: Report on the International Musicological Congress, Bonn, 1970, ed. Carl Dahlhaus, Hans Joachim Marx, Magda Marx -Weber, Günther Massenkeil, Kassel [u a ]: Barenreiter, 1971, p 111-117
  • Anton Webern, Variations for Piano, Op 27, Webern's interpretation ideas first described by Peter Stadlen at hand of facsimiles of his working copy with instructions Webern for the premiere, Vienna: Universal Edition, ca 1979
  • Schindler's Beethoven Forgeries, in: The Musical Times, vol 118 (1977), pp. 549-552
  • Schindler's forgeries in Beethoven's conversation books, in: Austrian music magazine, vol 32 (1977 ), pp. 246-252
  • Schindler and the conversation books, in: Soundings, 1978, No. 7, pp. 2-18
  • Schindler and the conversation notebooks, in: Austrian music magazine, vol 34 (1979 ), pp. 2-18
  • Berg's cryptography, in:. Alban Berg Symposium 1980 Conference Proceedings, ed. Rudolf Klein, Vienna: Universal Edition, 1981, p 171-180
  • Beethoven and the metronome, in music concepts, Munich: Ed. Text Kritik, Volume 8 (1985 ), pp. 12-33
  • English musical life yesterday and today, in: Austrian music magazine, vol 41 (1986 ), pp. 130-141
  • 50 years later, in: Austrian music magazine, vol 43 (1988 ), pp. 194-196
  • Austrian musician in exile in England, in: Austrian musicians in exile. Colloquium, 1988, ed. and by the Austrian Society for Music, Kassel [ a ]: Barenreiter, 1990, pp. 125-133
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