Melodramatische Biographie des Lebens – Künstlers Hans Gerold
The eventful life of the poet-composer Hans Gerold (1884 – 1958), née Goldberger, under changing political circumstances, private ups and downs, characterized by artistic friendships – including with Franz Lehár – supported by his wonderful music.
Thursday, May 8, 2025, 7:30p.m.
MuTh Konzertsaal der Wiener Sängerknaben Am Augartenspitz 1, 1020 Wien
Musical Direction and Arrangement: Nicolas Radulescu Salonorchester Wien Vasilis Tsiatsianis (piano)
Contributors: Waltraud Barton Wolfgang Gerold Raphael Kaufmann Beate Korntner Merle Krammer Charlotte Leitner Markus Mitterhuber Florian Resetarits Gabriel Wanka
Memorial stones for the composer Julius Bürger and his family were recently laid at Obere Donaustraße 59 in Vienna. These memorial stones, which commemorate Chaje Bürger, Solomon Bürger, Elias Bürger, Isak Bürger, Siegfried Bürger, Julius Bürger and Rosa Bürger, are part of a project launched at the initiative of the American musician and researcher Ryan Ross. Ross has dealt intensively with the life and work of the Viennese composer Julius Bürger, who was forced into exile in the USA due to the horrors of National Socialism.
The laying of the memorial stones was made possible by the “Stones of Remembrance” association with the support of the City of Vienna and the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism.
The composer’s friends, supporters and relatives took part in the solemn memorial ceremony, including Ron and Collette Pohl, Trude Zörer, Eva Spreitzler, Edith Seybal and the team from the mdw Exilarte Center under the direction of Gerold Gruber.
The event was supported by Uniqa Insurance Group, which made its premises available. The ceremony was musically accompanied by the group Avanim, with Daliah Hindler and Barbara Probst singing and Christoph Kögler on the accordion.
Accompanying the premiere of the documentary film Visit from China by Paul Rosdy and a special memorial concert at the IES, Exilarte, in collaboration with the Jewish Museum Vienna, invites you to an exhibition that illuminates the extraordinary life of the violinist Ferdinand Adler.
As a Jewish refugee, Adler found refuge in Shanghai in 1939, where he left a lasting impact on the music world. Original photos, documents and his original violin bring his eventful time in exile to life, while the concert traces his musical career.
Film premiere:
Friday, November 8, 2024 at 6:45 pm Metro Kinokulturhaus, Historical Hall Johannesgasse 4, 1010 Vienna
The premiere will take place in the presence of Paul Rosdy, Christina Adler and Fang Sheng.
Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 5 p.m IES Abroad Vienna Center Johannesgasse 7, 1010 Vienna
The program includes a selection of works for violin and piano that Ferdinand Adler himself played in concerts in Shanghai. What is particularly impressive is that the concert evening will be played on Adler’s own violin, which can be seen in the accompanying exhibition. Univ.-Prof. David Frühwirth on violin and Mayuko Obuchi on piano.
Registration: info@exilarte.org
Exhibition:
November 8th to 24th, 2024; 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
The exhibition can be seen in the mezzanine of the Metro Kinokulturhaus from November 8th to 24th, 2024 on the film’s screening days from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
On Saturday, October 5, 2024, the “ORF Long Night of Museums” will be held throughout Austria.
The mdw Exilarte Center is taking part again. This year the center is once again offering a variety of events, including lectures, concerts and guided tours of the exhibition “Triangle of Viennese Tradition | Zemlinsky – Schönberg – Hoffmann” and through our permanent exhibitions.
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SPECIAL EVENTS as part of the ORF Long Night of Museums
1) “Piano duo Haufe – Ahmels”, piano duo Friederike Haufe and Volker Ahmels (start: 6:15 p.m.)
Opening: Gerold Gruber, director of the Exilarte Center
Since their time as students, the piano duo Friederike Haufe and Volker Ahmels have focused on the interpretation and research of classical modernism, especially ostracized music. The present program is a selection of “classics” from the 2nd Viennese School, supplemented by the celebrated “Serbian Songs” of the time by the composer Hans Gál, who, like Arnold Schönberg, had to do military service in the First World War. While Schönberg’s miniatures represent a turning point in the free-tonal phase for the condensation of the material, the Variations op. 27 by Anton Webern can be seen as a continuation of the consistent use of dodecaphony. The fragments for piano 4 hands are hardly known to the public and yet definitely deserve attention. Alban Berg’s highly demanding piano sonata is still a masterpiece by Arnold Schönberg’s student at the time. Friederike Haufe and Volker Ahmels are co-hosting this program designed for the occasion and want to give the audience access to the Viennese masters of the first half of the century.
2) “In the ice of the moon we wander”, a song recital with Pia Buchert and Tatjana Dravenau (start: 8:00 p.m.)
The program combines compositions by Walter Arlen and Hans Gál, whose papers were entrusted to the Exilarte archive, with works by other Jewish composers. Ruth Schonthal, who comes from a Viennese family and initially grew up in Hamburg and Berlin, emigrated to the USA via Sweden and Mexico during the Nazi era, where the Berlin-born composer Ursula Mamlok also found a new circle of life and activity. Both women did not let the politically motivated persecution take away their courage to live or the development of their musical talents. Schonthal studied composition with Ingemar Liljefors, Manuel Ponce and Paul Hindemith, Mamlok with Gustav Ernest, Ernst Krenek and Roger Sessions. The diverse oeuvre of the two composers, encompassing all genres, as well as numerous awards and teaching positions at renowned universities document their importance in the further development of the classical-romantic composition tradition in the 20th century. Felix Wolfes, who came from Hanover and was a student of Hans Pfitzner and Richard Strauss and worked as a conductor at various German opera houses, also had to leave his homeland and worked as a professor of composition in Boston in the second half of his life. An extensive collection of songs based on German texts was created here, whose fine, often polyphonic lines create a transparent and delicate sound. Similar to his letters and diaries, his ability to articulate experiences of suffering and loss without bitterness and vindictiveness is evident here.
3) “Melancholy”, a chamber music evening by the VIVA LA CLASSICA ensemble!
After successful concerts in Vienna, London, Lublin, Krakow and Warsaw, the ensemble VIVA LA CLASSICA! Excerpts from his program “Melancholy” with works by Walter Arlen, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Henriëtte Bosmans, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Rosy Wertheim, Erwin Schulhoff, Victor Ullmann, Simon Laks, Franz Waxman, Erich Zeisl and Paul Hindemith. The cruelty of the Third Reich had many faces, one of which was the complete ban on the performance of composers’ works – be it because of their origin, beliefs or sexual orientation. In order to devalue their art, it was given the term “degenerate”. Some persecuted artists managed to escape into exile, where they were able to continue their artistic work. Others were not granted this and fell victim to National Socialist persecution. Their music, some of which is still unknown, wants VIVA LA CLASSICA! bring it closer to the audience. They placed particular emphasis on including compositions by female composers who were doubly discriminated against at the time. The song cycle Melancholy, op. 13, composed by Paul Hindemith between 1917 and 1919, inspired the musicians to write the concert title. These songs, based on Morgenstern poems, manifest Hindemith’s early expressionist style, for which he was persecuted by the Nazis. From this song cycle, the musicians present the song “Dunkler Tropfe” – a funeral march.
4) Quick tours through the exhibition (from 6:30 p.m.)
Triangleof the Viennese tradition I Zemlinsky – Schönberg – Hoffmann
Inspired by the globally celebrated 150th birthday of Arnold Schönberg, the new exhibition in the Exilarte Center of the mdw illuminates the social and cultural environment of the founder of the Second Viennese School. In particular, attention is paid to Alexander Zemlinsky, who taught Schönberg and introduced him to Viennese music circles, as well as to Schönberg’s student and later assistant Richard Hoffmann, whose estate has recently been located in the archives of the Exilarte Center. These three personalities, their professional, friendship and musical connections as well as their fates during the time of the Nazi regime are presented using life documents, photos and music manuscripts. Countless other free spirits of the early 20th century from music, literature, fine art and architecture as well as wealthy art lovers and patrons met for artistic exchanges and lavish parties in the artists’ colony planned by Josef Hoffmann in Vienna’s already noble 19th district. The majority of them had Jewish roots and were persecuted by the Nazis. Many were able to emigrate, many died in concentration camps.
ENTRY
Tickets can be purchased directly at the Exilarte Center!
Exilarte center of the mdw, Lothringerstraße 18 / 1st floor, 1030 Vienna
Free entry for children up to 12 years *Reduced tickets for schoolchildren, students, seniors, people with disabilities, military servants and Ö1 Club members. Please have relevant proof ready on site.
As part of the 20th Festival of Croatian Musicians in Vienna (July – October 2024), the concert is organized by the Platform for Culture, in cooperation with the Croatian Art Association Cristoforium and the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Vienna.
The Festival of Croatian Musicians in Vienna has been promoting the Croatian concert scene for two decades and will continue this tradition in 2024. With an appealing and carefully put together program it will once again delight its loyal Viennese audience.
On the occasion of this important anniversary, the renowned Zagreb soloists will appear in the Musikverein’s Brahms Hall and play a work by Marcel Tyberg, a composer whose estate recently arrived at the mdw’s Exilarte Center.
Marcel Tyberg (1893–1944) was an Austrian composer, conductor and organist. In 1927 Marcel Tyberg moved with his mother from Vienna to Abbazia, now Opatija in Croatia. In Croatia he became an important church musician and conductor. Faced with the threat of persecution, he entrusted his catalog of works to a friend, but was soon arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered on December 31, 1944. Despite his persecution by the Nazi regime, he left behind important compositions, including symphonies, piano sonatas and liturgical music.
A cooperation between the Capital of Culture 2024, the Salzkammergut Festwochen Gmunden, the Arnold Schönberg Center Vienna and the Exilarte Center of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Friday, October 4, 2024 at 5:00 p.m Johann Orth Hall Tuscany Congress Gmunden
5:00 p.m. Salon in conversation – Arnold Schönberg in the Johann Ort Hall, Toscana Congress Gmunden
Therese Muxeneder: “Dissonant idylls for Arnold Schönberg. “The anti-Semitic defense of modernity in the Salzkammergut”
Ulrike Anton: “Vilma von Webenau – Schönberg’s first student”
Gerold Gruber: “Music in exile in Los Angeles”
6:15 p.m. Exhibition tour Idyll for modernity – Arnold Schönberg on Lake Traunsee at Villa Toscana by Dr. Ulrike Anton (Director of the Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna)
7:30 p.m. Musical Salon – Concert in the Johann Ort Hall, Toscana Congress Gmunden
In the 19th and 20th centuries, salons were popular private meeting places where artistic, scientific and political topics were discussed and people enjoyed culinary and musical delicacies. The Arnold Schönberg Salon seeks to pursue this experience and combines interesting lectures with artistic performances. Arnold Schönberg’s environment in Europe as well as in his exile in the USA/Los Angeles offers space for a wide range of works from the Second Viennese School and other, often opposing, stylistic expressions. In addition to Schönberg, works by Erich Zeisl, Vilma von Webenau, Walter Arlen and Erich Wolfgang Korngold will also be heard.
Contributors:
Josipa Bainac-Hausknecht | Mezzo-soprano Catherina Lee | Violin David Hausknecht | Piano Gerold Gruber | Moderation
Music festival “Foreign Earth” is a project of the VIVA LA CLASSICA association! in cooperation with the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI), “Neubau reminds” and the Exilarte Center of the mdw.
The festival is a homage to the work and life of the composers whose works were banned under the Nazi regime and defamed as “degenerate art” – a term that was used at the time to describe all forms of art that were considered undesirable in the Third Reich . VIVA LA CLASSICA! lets the music of Arnold Schönberg, Franz Waxman, Erich Zeisl, Ilse Weber, Viktor Ullmann and many other composers be heard again.
NASOM New Austrian Sound of Music 2023/24 Artist: HarpistElisabeth Plank presents the music from her hometown Vienna in March and April 2024 in the USA, including estates from the mdw’s Exilarte Center. The program takes you into impressive and at the same time delicate soundscapes, which are characterized by original compositions and arrangements by renowned composers such as Arnold Schönberg, Hans Gál and many others.
Concerts:
March19, 2024 at 7:00 p.m., Austrian Cultural Forum, Washington D.C.
March 23, 2024 at 2:30 p.m., University of North Texas / Voertman Hall, Denton (TX)
March 24, 2024 at 6:00 p.m., American Harp Society Houston / Archway Gallery,Houston (TX)
March 29, 2024 at 8:30 p.m., Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington (IN)
March 30, 2024 at 7:00 p.m., University of Northern Kentucky / Greaves Concert Hall, Highland Heights (KY)
April 4, 2024 at 4:30 p.m., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Smith Hall, Urbana (IL)
April 6, 2024 at 1:00 p.m., Lyon & Healy Hall, Chicago (IL)
April 7, 2024 at 4:00 p.m., American Harp Society Philadelphia / Temple Lutheran Church (501 Brookline Blvd, Havertown, PA 19083), Philadelphia (PA)
April 9, 2024 at 7:00 p.m., Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, NYC
Since 2008, the aron quartet‘s “Chamber Music Festival Vienna” has been dedicated in particular to the performance of selected works by composers persecuted under the Nazi regime. Many of them had to emigrate, some were murdered in the Nazi extermination camps. The concert will feature the works of Walter Bricht, whose legacy is in the Exilarte Center.
On the program:
Quintet in A minor for piano and strings (1952) selected songs: Prayer (from op.24), Elf (from op.28), Twilight Hour (from WoO.7), Elisabeth (from op.24) from: 4 piano pieces for the left hand alone, Op. 30: No. 2 song without words
