Upcoming Performances & Anniversaries
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
born: 08/02/1905
died: 12/05/1963
nationality: Germany
Upcoming:
Concerto funebre
Conductor: Günter Pichler
12/20/2008 | Konzerthaus, Mozart-Saal - Wien - Austria
Adagio
Conductor: Eiji Oue
01/16/2009 | Philharmonie - Köln - Germany
Chronology
1905
Born on 2 August in Munich
1919
Enters the teachers training college at Pasing near Munich
1924
Studies at the Staatliche Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich
1928
Founds the concert series organized by the artists association "Die Juryfreien"
1928
"Wachstfigurenkabinett"
1933
No performances of Hartmann´s works in Germany until 1945; during this period he writes several major orchestral works, only some of which are performed during his lifetime ("Miserae", "Sinfoniae Drammaticae": Symphonic Overture - Symphonic Hymns - Symphonic Suite "Vita Nova") and parts of which are later incorporated in Symphonies No.1 and Nos. 3-6 (Symphony "L'œvre", Symphony for Strings, Sinfonia tragica, "Klagegesang", Cantata "Lamento")
1934
Marries Elisabeth Reussmann
1934
"Simplicius Simplicissimus"
1935
His son Richard is born
Symphonic Poem "Miserae" performed at the ISCM Festival in Prague under Hermann Scherchen
Symphonic Poem "Miserae" performed at the ISCM Festival in Prague under Hermann Scherchen
1935
Symphony No.1 (revised 1954/55)
1936
1st Prize of the Geneva chamber music competition "Carillon" for String quartet No.1
1937
Cantata "Friede Anno 48" is awarded a prize by the Emil Hertzka Foundation, Vienna
1938
String quartet No.1 is performed at the ISCM Festival in London
1939
"Concerto funebre"
1940
"Concerto funebre" premièred in St. Gallen, Switzerland
1942
Private tuition with Anton von Webern in Maria Enzersdorf near Vienna
1945
Appointed musical dramaturg at the Bayerische Staatsoper; co-founder of the Musica Viva concerts to which he gave artistic form and for which he was responsible until his death
1948
Symphonies Nos. 2-4
1949
Musical Award of the city of Munich
1950
Arts Award of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Lünste München; Symphony No. 5
1951
Symphony No. 6
1953
Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste
1954
Schönberg Medal of the ISCM
1957
Grand Arts Awards of the Land of Nordrhein-Westfalia
1959
Louis Spohr Preis of the City of Braunschweig
1959
Symphony No.7
1960
Symphony No.8
1961
Arts Award of the City of Berlin; Schwabing Arts Award
1962
Honorary doctorate of Spokane Conservatory, Washington
1962
"Gesangsszene zu Worten aus Sodom und Gomorrha von Jean Giraudoux"
1963
Dies on 5 December in Munich
