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Hans Erich Apostel

 
Artist: Hans Erich Apostel
 
  • Period: Modern (1910-1949)
  • Country: Austria
  • Born: January 22, 1901 in Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Died: November 30, 1972 in Vienna

Biography

Apostel studied with Schoenberg and Berg. He was honored many times for his compositional work, including the Major Austrian State Prize in 1952 and the Major Monaco Composition Prize in 1968. He started out as a lyrically Romantic composer and progressed through atonal expressionism to absolute serialism. His Paralipomena dodekaphonika is an example of his later work. Apostel believed in a connection between music and the visual arts and often tried to translate images into music in his compositions. The initial notation for his pieces were frequently graphic in nature and these sketches contained all the elements necessary for a complete composition. ~ Lynn Vought, All Music Guide
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(b Karlsruhe, 22 Jan 1901; d Vienna, 30 Nov 1972). Austrian composer of German birth. He moved to Vienna in 1921 and studied with Schoenberg and Berg, whom he followed in a long phase of atonal expressionism (e.g. in Kubiniana for piano, 1950) until in 1957 he became as absolute a serialist as Webern. His works include orchestral pieces but comprise mostly chamber music, sometimes with voice.



 
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Hans Erich Apostel (1901 in Karlsruhe – 1972 in Vienna) was a German-born Austrian composer of classical music.

From 1916 to 1919 he studied in Karlsruhe with Alfred Lorenz. He was also a student of both Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg, two prominent members of the so-called Second Viennese School. Apostel's music was banned during the Nazi era, but he continued to live in Vienna, where he died in 1972.

Apostel was responsible for new editions of the operas of Alban Berg, Wozzeck and Lulu.


 
 

 

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