Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
Roman hood -Ramati ( born February 27, 1919 in Krakow, † March 3, 1994 in Vienna) was a music lecturer, teacher and composer of New Music in Krakow, Tel Aviv and Vienna.
Life
Hood -Ramati studied from 1937 to 1940 composition, music theory, violin and philosophy in Kraków and Lviv. He was a pupil of Artur Malawski and Józef Koffler. In 1939 his family was fleeing from the Germans to Lviv, which was incorporated into the Soviet Union as a result of the Hitler -Stalin Pact. Due to its multilingualism, he was arrested in 1941 shortly before the German invasion of the Soviet Union on charges of espionage and deported via Odessa to Tomsk. There he was recruited for the Polish Anders Army and came to Palestine with the 2nd Polish Corps.
The arbitrary arrest in 1941 saved him from the Holocaust, his parents were killed. In 1947 he returned to Poland and was there until 1950 Head of Music at Radio Krakow. Since he had a visa for Palestine, he was finally able to emigrate in 1950 with his wife Emilia with the last official transportation. From 1950 he was professor at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, where he also led the development of a musical Central Library. In 1957, he received a six-month scholarship to the Académie of musique concrète in Paris and met Pierre Schaeffer. 1958-1968 he was a lecturer for New Music by Universal Edition Vienna. In 1959 he curated the first exhibition of musical graphics at the Donaueschingen Music Days.
He also served as a guest lecturer and head of composition seminars in Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Darmstadt, Bilthoven (Netherlands) and Buenos Aires active and had since 1973 a professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna held, where he 1989 Emeritus. Among his most important students count Bruno Liberda, Beat Furrer, Mayako Kubo and Peter Ablinger.
In the early phase, his writing has the influence of Anton Webern and the number of techniques. Early on, he turned to graphic notation techniques ( for example, in Séquences for violin and orchestra groups (1958), from 1970 intensive ). He subsequently developed "variable music " or " mobile ", in which the musical structure in the discretion of the performer can be significantly changed. Hood -Ramati also worked as a graphic artist and painter.
Awards
Works
- String Trio (1948 )
- Ricercari for String Trio ( 1952)
- Benedictions / Blessings (1954 for soprano and nine instruments)
- Recitativo e aria (1955 for harpsichord and orchestra)
- Les symphonies of 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 band)
- America ( Music Theatre 1961-1964, UA German Opera Berlin 1966, revised 1992 Graz Beat Furrer ) by Franz Kafka, The Man Who Disappeared
- 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 piano)
- Catch III (1969 for organ)
- Alone (1969 for trombone and a mime )
- La comédie (1969, "anti- opera" for three 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)
- Comédie, Poetics for J. Joyce I & 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 piano (1984 )
- Sign S.B ( 1988 Ensemble )
- Sonata for Piano (1983, rev 1989)
- Second String Trio (1985 )
- Invocations ( for chamber orchestra, 1990)
- Polyphony for ensemble (1993 )
- Equilibre for 9 musicians (1993 )