Category: Partnerships with Exilarte

© Arnold Schönberg Center, © Museum of History, Našice; Kroatien, © Open source

Festive Concert

Under the patronage of the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in the Republic of Austria in cooperation with the Exilarte Center of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the ÖAW – Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Croatian Cultural Association in Vienna “Matica Hrvatska Beč” and Association Tonwerk – Forum for New Music

Wednesday, October 04, 2023 at 7:00 p.m

Austrian Academy of Sciences / ballroom (2nd floor)
Doktor-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2
1010 Vienna

Admission free!

Greeting:

H.E. Daniel Glunčić, Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia

Moderator:

ao Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Gerold W. Gruber, founder of the Exilarte Center

Program:

Akos Banlaky: Homage to Dora Pejačević – 2 songs from the Suite op. 63 after Antun Gustav Matoš 

Arnold Schönberg: String Quartet in D major (1897)

Dora Pejačević: “Transformation” after Karl Kraus and “Love Song” after Rainer Maria Rilke

Dora Pejačević: Piano Quintet in B minor, Op. 40

Interpreters:

Motus String Quartet

Tim de Vries, violin | Karla Križ, violin | Guilherme Caldas, viola | Domonkos Hartmann, cello

Josipa Bainac, mezzo-soprano

David Hausknecht, piano

Celebrations:

10 years of Croatia in the EU (2023) | 100th anniversary of the death of composer Dora Pejačević (2023) | Croatian Presidium IHRA (2023) | 150th birthday of Karl Kraus (2024) | 150th birthday of Arnold Schönberg (2024) | 150th birthday of Antun Gustav Matoš (2023)

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In the oeuvre of the Croatian composer Dora Pejačević (1885-1923), the composition Metamorphosis occupies a special place both because of its musical significance and because of the context in which it was created: the vocal work for alto, violin and organ or piano was based on verses by the Austrian writer and journalist Karl Kraus (1874-1936) in the spring of 1915 and was intended for the wedding of their mutual friend Sidonia Nádherný von Borutin, which did not take place. Kraus planned to perform the composition in Vienna in 1916, but due to the delay in the score and problems with the performers, the performance did not take place. Correspondence between Kraus and Nádherný recorded that Kraus showed the composition to Arnold Schönberg, who – despite his skepticism about a woman composer – praised the work and advocated its performance.

Metamorphosis by Dora Pejačević is one of the characteristic works of modernism; Schönberg particularly pointed out the interlude before the beginning of the text “Today is Spring”. Encountering Kraus’ poetry was obviously stimulating for Dora Pejačević’s departure from traditional patterns and periodic form towards a freer flow of musical phrases and expressive harmonies.

Out of:

Kos, Koraljka. “Dora Pejačević, Karl Kraus And Arnold Schoenberg.” International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 50, no. 1/2 (2019): 255-70.

© Theresa Wey

The RSO under the direction of Gottfried Rabl presents works by Julius Bürger.

Read a report about the concert here.

Friday, August 18, 2023, 7:30 p.m.

Großer Sendesaal des ORF (Large broadcasting hall of the ORF)
Argentinierstraße 30A
A-1040 Wien

Interpreters:

Anna Litvinenko, Cello
Matija Meic, Baritone
Gottfried Rabl, Conductor
Gerold Gruber, Moderation 

Program:

Adagio für Streichorchester (1978)

Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester (1932)

Legende, Orchestral song for baritone and symphonic orchestra (1919)

Stille der Nacht, Orchestral song for baritone and symphonic orchestra (1923)

Eastern Symphony (1931)

Admission free!

Registration at: info@exilarte.org

© WISE – Vienna International Soloists Ensemble

Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at 7:00 p.m

Bank Austria Salon in the Old Town Hall
Wipplingerstrasse 8
1010 Vienna
Admission free!

Performers:

Ulrike Anton, flute
Ivana Nikolić, oboe
Stipe Bilić, piano
Roland Jaehn, baritone

CIPRA Quartet: Andrea Nikolić, violin; Angela Chia Chen Lin, violin; Weronika Izert, viola; Weronika Strugala, cello

Program:

Gabriele Proy: Alchemilla Vulgaris, for oboe and string trio
Hans Gal: Concertino for flute and string quartet
Meinhard Rüdenauer: Caprices for string quartet, dedicated to the CIPRA quartet, UA
Antal Dorati: Nocturno and Capriccio, for oboe and string quartet (1926)
Julius Bürger: String Quartet No.2
Hans Winterberg: String Quartet 1957
Michael Paulus: Zweisinn, for piano, violin / viola, oboe and voice

Workshop Music Theater Direction of the Institute for Singing and Music Theater of the mdw.

Wednesday, June 06 and 07, 2023 at 6:00 p.m

Neue Studiobühne
Penzinger Strasse 7-9
1140 Vienna

Staging: Ella Haid Schmallenberg (Student of the diploma course Music Theater Directing)

Admission free!

We are pleased to announce a cooperation between the Center Tchèque Paris and the exilarte center:

A piano recital by pianist Jonathan Powell, who will present a magnificent Czech repertoire with a work by the recently rediscovered composer Hans Winterberg.

During the concert, Hans Winterberg’s second piano sonata from 1941 will have its public premiere.

More details can be found here.

“Endangered Beauty” – under this title, Ernst Kovacic, who acts here as conductor of the Webern Chamber Philharmonic, focuses this time on the composers Joszef Koffler, Alexander Zemlinsky, Hans Gál and Josef Suk.

Not only does the program do justice to the title due to the rarity of its performances, the title also indicates that the diverse musical creativity of these composers came to an abrupt end during the Nazi regime. Both Gál and Zemlinsky fled from the Nazis into exile. Koffler was murdered by them.

Personalities like Ernst Kovacic and organizations like Exilarte are committed to bringing this music, an almost forgotten beauty, back into the minds of their listeners.

Works by: Joszef Koffler, Alexander Zemlinsky, Hans Gál and Josef Suk

Performers: Webern Chamber Philharmonic

Conductor: Ernst Kovacic

When: Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 7:30 p.m

Where:
Spiel!Raum Kapfenberg
Friedrich-Böhler-Strasse 9, 8605 Kapfenberg

Admission: 18 euros / reduced 9 euros / music school pass: free admission!

Ticket sales: Ö-Ticket sales system, in the cultural center of Kapfenberg (Monday to Friday 9am to 12pm and Mon, Tuesday & Thursday 2pm to 5pm), – ticket sales offices or cash desk on site.

© The International Society for New Music (IGNM) Salzburg

…under the patronage of Thomas Hampson

...in cooperation with Leao Baeck Institute, American Society for Jewish Music, Austrian Cultural Forum New York

Thursday April 20, 2023
Leo Baeck Institute – Center for Jewish history
15 West 16th St
New York, NY 10011

Concert series of the association Tonwerk – Forum for New Music – as part of the district festival weeks Hietzing.

The Theresienstadt composer Hans Winterberg (1901 – 1991) has only been known to the musical public for a few years. Winterberg lived in Germany in the community of Sudeten Germans in Bavaria and dedicated his Deutschsudeten Trio to this group. The Exilarte Center is responsible for the rediscovery of the composer and publishes a large number of his compositions together with the publishing house Boosey & Hawkes.

Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 7:00 p.m

Large ballroom of the Hietzing office building
Hietzinger Quay 1-3
1130 Vienna

Admission free!

Performers:

Floris Willem, Geige
Cristina Basili, Cello
David Hausknecht, Klavier

Program:

Antonín Dvořák: Klaviertrio no. 4, op. 90 
Hans Winterberg: Sudetensuite 
Gerhard Habl: Divertimento 
Akos Banlaky: Präludium aus dem Trio op. 66 
Friedrich Cerha: Nachtstück 

Moderator: 

Prof. Dr. Gerold Gruber (Gründer von exil.arte und Leiter des Exilarte Zentrum)
Mag. Akos Banlaky (Komponist, Obmann des Vereins Tonwerk – Forum für Neue Musik)

Supporter: 

Stadt Wien, BMKÖS, Bezirksvorstehung Hietzing, GFÖM

Vienna Chamber Orchestra conducted by Joji Hattori presents Adagio for string orchestra (1978) by Julius Bürger.

Friday, March 24, 2023 at 8:15 p.m

Vienna Concert Hall
Schubert Hall

Performers:

Vienna Chamber Orchestra

Anton Gerzenberg, piano

Joji Hatori, moderation & conductor

Details here.

SPECIAL EVENTS as part of the ORF Long Night of Museums

1)  Literary Reading with Music (starting at 7 pm)

In Memory of Käthe Leichter – 80 Years After Her Murder by the Nazis

Opening speech: Mag.^a Ulrike Sych, President of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Käthe Leichter was one of the first leading Austrian social democrats to fight for equal rights of female and male workers. Her letters paint an impressive picture of a courageous woman. In 1939 she was deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she was murdered in 1942. Her sister, the composer and music therapist Vally Weigl, managed to flee to the USA together with her husband, the composer Karl Weigl in 1938.

The well-known actress Christine Ostermayer reads together with Gregorij von Leitis letters from Käthe Leichter and her husband Otto Leichter. The musical framework for this event is provided by works of Vally Weigl and Karl Weigl interpreted by soprano Josipa Bainac and pianist David Hausknecht.

Introduced by: Michael Lahr von Leitis (Lahr from Leitis Academy) and Gerold Gruber (Head of the Exilarte Center)

2.) Book presentation with music from the 1930s (starting at 9 p.m.)

„In-Musik-sein“ – The Musical Situation of the Exile Philosopher Günther Anders

Günther Anders is not only a technology-critical philosopher, he is also the author of writings on the philosophy of art and music. His Theorie der musikalischen Situation is reconsidered in the book „In-Musik-sein“ is presented here with a music-pedagogical intention.

During this event, the singers Melanie Hirsch and Sylvia Khittl-Muhr will interpret together with the pianist Christoph U. Meier works by Ralph Benatzky, Wilhelm Grosz, Friedrich Hollaender, Michael Jary and Robert Stolz. The musical estate of Wilhelm Grosz is located in the archive of the Exilarte Center.

Moderation Panel:

Gerold Gruber (Chairman of the Exilarte Center)

Markus Hirsch (mdw – Institute for Music Education)

Christoph Khittl (mdw – Institute for Music Education)

An mdw cooperation between the Institute for Music Education (IMP) and the Exilarte Center.

3.) Tours through the exhibition (as of 6:30 p.m.)

Fritz Kreisler – A Cosmopolitan in Exile. From Child Prodigy to “King of Violinists”

Life and work of famous violin virtuoso Fritz Kreisler are presented in the new exhibition of the Exilarte Center through photos, scores as well as life and audio documents. When the National Socialists came to power in Germany, the performances of the star violinist were accompanied by disruptions and calls for boycott due to his Jewish heritage. Also his compositions were no longer played. In September 1939 Kreisler immigrated to the USA, where he settled in New York together with his wife Harriet.

TICKETS

Tickets can be bought directly at the Exilarte Center!
Exilarte Center at the mdw, Lothringerstraße 18 / 1st floor, 1030 Vienna

Regular: € 15.00 (including VAT)
Reduced:* € 12.00 (including VAT)
Free entry for children up to 12 years of age
* reduced tickets for schoolchildren, students, senior citizens, people with disabilities, military service and Ö1 Club members. Please have the relevant proof ready on site. 

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