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Karl Amadeus Hartmann: The Art of Mourning
“On every portrait of Karl Amadeus Hartmann—whether painted by his brother Adolf or on one of the numerous photographs—you notice the striking, radiant eyes of the composer” writes Klaus Kalchschmid about the composer. “They reflect the vast curiosity that shaped Hartmann throughout his life, but also his vulnerability. It also indicates an openness with which Hartmann challenged his friends and colleagues around him.”
This vulnerability and openness shows in his music, which seems to confess, to mourn, and to plea in timeless, consonant ways. The communicative aspect was important to Hartmann, who was not interested in academic exercises. (And in fact he was asked, by an exacerbated professor, to suspend composition classes in favor of the trombone at the conservatory.) “While I work, I am also preoccupied with the effect of a work as a whole: The whole ought to represent a piece of absolute life—truth that spreads joy and is connected to grief… I don’t want disimpassioned intellectualisms but a work of art with a statement.”
Hartmann was the student of Anton Webern, an admirer of Arnold Schoenberg, and a liberal quoter from Alban Berg, but he was anything but a mindless disciple of the 12-tone cult: “Those who compose slavishly in acquiescent dependency on tone rows can certainly crank their bits out at a nice clip. But… you cannot just skirt the burden of tradition by replacing old forms with new ones. We have to accept that our path has become more difficult than that of our great idols before us.” Hartmann consequently developed a musical voice that makes him one of great if lamentably unsung composers of the 20th century.
曲目:
1 .Concerto funebre Introduktion. Largo 01:36
2 .Concerto funebre Adagio 07:17
3 .Concerto funebre Allegro di molto 08:32
4 .Concerto funebre Choral. Langsamer Marsch 04:06
Concertino op. 42
5 .Concertino op. 42 Allegretto cantabile 06:31
6 .Concertino op. 42 Cadenza. Lento - Adagio 06:00
7 .Concertino op. 42 Allegro moderato poco rubato 05:05
8 .Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes op. 47 Nr. 3 10:44
9 .Unfinished Sonata (1945) for Violin and Piano Moderato con moto 05:25 试听: