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Austrian musician (1861-1919)
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- violinist, composer, pianist
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Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2020-12-29 15:22:55
Death of senior German composer, 90
The East Berlin composer Paul Heinz Dittrich, who died today, was a moderate modernist who maintained his individuality in the GDR, working with electronics and some serial elements. He was sufficiently trusted by the regime to be allowed to work in the 1980s at Pierre Boulez’s Ircam in Paris. He worked with three western publishers, […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2020-11-16 10:51:10
Is it legal to shut an opera house?
Two Austrian lawyers are challenging the state’s right to shut down cultural sites: Ankündigung der Verfassungsklage, die Florian Krumpöck in Zusammenarbeit mit Mag. iur. Florian Dittrich und dem Rechtsanwalt Dr. Wolfram Proksch (ETHOS.legal) einbringen wird. Ziel ist die Klärung der Frage, ob die jüngste Schließung der Kulturstätten verfassungskonform war. “Oh grauenvolle Stille” (L. v. Beethoven: […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-01-10 07:15:00
New Year's Concert 2019 – Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann (Download 96kHz/24bit & 44.1kHz/16bit)
[…] of diplomatic relations between Austria and Japan. When the Meiji dynasty came to power in Japan in 1868, it ended the country's traditional isolation and introduced a far-reaching programme of reforms at home. A prominent role in this process was played by the introduction of western music, which primarily meant German and Austrian music. The first Austrian soloists appeared in Japan, and in 1888, on the recommendation of Vienna's Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Bruckner's pupil Rudolf Dittrich was named director of the newly founded State Academy of Music in Tokyo. Three years later the first Japanese student – Nobu Koda – enrolled at the Gesellschaft's Conservatory. The Vienna Philharmonic first went on tour to Japan in 1956 under Paul Hindemith and since then has visited the country no fewer than thirty-six times, enjoying a degree of popularity with local audiences that can only be expressed in superlatives. Transactionen was even heard in Japan […]
2013-06-30 02:09:00
Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Donaueschingen, Freiburg
[…] 75 JAHRE DONAUESCHINGER MUSIKTAGE 1921-1996 CD 1: Hindemith, String Quartet op. 16 - Stravinsky, Piano Sonata no. 2 - Krenek, 3 Marches for Military Orchestra op. 34 - Hindemit/Weill/(Brecht), Lindberghflug - Haass, Capriccio, Fugue and Intermezzo for Mechanical Piano | CD 2: Schönberg, Serenade op.24 - Berg, Lyric Suite - Haubenstock-Ramati, Credentials or Think, Think Lucky | CD 3: Cage, 12.55.6078'' - Hába, String Quartet op. 12 - Schnebel, Diapason - Dittrich, Areae Sonantes - Cerha, Spiegel II | CD 4: Berio, Sinfonia - Liebermann, Concerto for Jazzband and Symphony Orchestra - Halffter, Planto por las victimas de la violencia - Stravinsky, Epitaphium for the Tomb of Prince Max Egon of Fürstenberg | CD 5: Pousseur, Quintette à la mémoire d'Anton Webern - Kagel, Zwei-Mann-Orchester - Riehm, O Daddy | CD 6: Ferneyhough, Time and Motion Study III - Spahlinger, Und als wir - Zender, Muji […]
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