Primarily self-taught, Hauer devised a method of atonal composition that used the 12 tones of the scale divided into 44 melodic patterns, or "tropes." He also developed a new system of musical notation for twelve-tone music.
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Hauer was later to write that he had learned from his father all that was essential to know about music, and learned it between the ages of five and ten.
Hauer thought instead music should arise through a composer in the most unmediated manner possible, and when he hit upon the principle of constantly and systematically circulating all twelve notes, he believed he had discovered the realm in which music could transcend the personal and attain the spiritual.
Hauer's references to Goethe's scientific writing--likely under the influence of Rudolf Steiner's interpretations--and to Chinese philosophy throughout his theoretical work also suggest that Hauer was influenced by the various esoteric and occult movements that had flourished in Vienna since the late 19th century.
Vor mir steht barfuß ein alter chinesischer Weiser.
Rigoros in ihrer kompositorischen Konsequenz, die in einigen Fällen durchaus einiges von dem vorweg zu nehmen scheint, was aus der Musik nach 1950 bekannt ist, lässt sich das Klangbild von Hauers "Zwölftonspielen" allenfalls durch Vokabeln beschreiben, mit denen wir in unserem Erfahrungsschatz irgendwelche emotionalen Inhalte assoziieren.
Ein ganz eigenartiger Kosmos tut sich hier auf, den es erst noch zu entdecken und zu erfahren gilt.
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Josef Matthias Hauer - Fifteen Zwölftonspiele [CC]: Classical Reviews- March 2002 MusicWeb(UK)(Site not responding. Last check: )
The name of Hauer is more often found in text books than in concert hall programmes, and if this disc is anything to go by this neglect is hopelessly unfounded.
Perhaps it is unfortunate that Hauer is best known for his dispute with Schoenberg as to who had the idea of the twelve-tone system.
The variety of Hauer’s musical language, even within the 50 minutes of this disc, is breath-taking and ranges from the pleasant (Zwölftonspiel for flute and harpsichord) to the almost Impressionistically-lush-threatening-pre-Glassian-minimalism-at-any-moment Zwölftonspiel for string quartet (January 1957), to the capricious XXII.
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JosefMatthias Hauer[yO´zef mAtEAs hou´ur] Pronunciation Key, 1883–1959, Austrian music theorist and composer.
Primarily self-taught, Hauer devised a method of atonal composition that used the 12 tones of the scale divided into 44 melodic patterns, or "tropes." He also developed a new system of musical notation for twelve-tone music.
In fact, his compositional techniques change almost from each piece to the next.
Wisely keeping a low profile, he stayed in Austria through the war, publishing nothing; but even after the war he published little more, although he probably wrote several hundreds of pieces which remained in manuscript.
see also chapter 5 'Out of Tune' Hauer's Legacy and the Aesthetics of Minimalism in Art and Music' in Visible Deeds of Music: Art and Music from Wagner to Cage, by Simon Shaw-Miller (Yale University Press, 2002) pp.
Hauer, the American Charles Edward Ives, the Soviet composers Arthur Lourié and Nikolay Roslavets, and the Pole Józef Koffler.
The word "atonality" was derived from the French neologism "aton," coined around 1900 meaning "without tones." The word "atonality" emerged as a polemic term to describe and to condemn music in which chords were organized seemingly with no apparent coherence.
In this respect, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern rejected the term for various reasons, although JosefMatthiasHauer used it theoretically to describe his own music.
jpc - Music à la carte - Hauer, JosefMatthias (1883-1959): Atonale Musik op.
Dementsprechend meditativ begegnet Schleiermacher dieser angenehm entspannten, oft annähernd einstimmigen Musik, die ohne feste Dynamik und Tempo-Angaben meist in ruhigen Vierteln sich fortbewegt."
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