Roman Haubenstock-Ramati / GRAPHIC MUSIC: Kreise - Batterie - Décisions - Alone 1

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Roman Haubenstock-Ramati / GRAPHIC MUSIC: Kreise - Batterie - Décisions - Alone 1
Classical - Contemporary | EAC = APE + CUE + LOG | Covers | 235 MB

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Roman Haubenstock-Ramati was born on 27 February 1919 in Krakow where he studied musicology and philosophy as well as composition with Artur Malawski and took private lessons with Jósef Koffler in Lemberg.
1947– 1950 head of the music department of the Krakow Radio
1950 – 1956 director of the State Music Library of Tel Aviv and professor at the Music Academy
1957 return to Europe, worked at the Studio de Musique Concrète in Paris where he drew inspiration from Olivier Messiaen. Then worked as editor and music consultant of Universal Edition Vienna; permanent residence in Vienna. Visiting professor in Buenos Aires, Stockholm and at the Yale University.
1973 to 1989 he accepted an appointment to the Wiener Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst as professor of composition. In addition to composition Haubenstock-Ramati focused on the development of new forms of notation and musical graphic.
In 1959 he organised the first exhibition of ‘Musical Graphic’ in Donaueschingen.
In 1981 he was awarded the ‘Grand Austrian State Prize’.
He died on 3 March 1994 in Vienna, a week after the gala concert in honour of his 75th birthday at the Wiener Konzerthaus.

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First recordings of
GRAPHIC MUSIC
March 13 & 14, 1997 at Sender Freies Berlin

Eberhard Blum, Flute, Voice
Iven Hausmann, Trombone
Jan Williams, Percussion

01. Kreise (1972) for sprechstimme and percussion - 1st Realization _ 9:12

02. Batterie (1969) for percussion _ 10:48

03. Décisions (1959/61) Graphic composition in 16 parts for unspecified sound sources
Realization for flute, trombone and percussion _ (18:48)

04. Kreise - for sprechstimme and percussion - 2nd Realization (9:36)

05. Alone 1 (1965) for unspecified low instruments
Realization for bass flute, bass trombone , and prepared bass drum (5:54)