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Gottfried von Einem (24 January 1918 – 12 July 1996) was an Austrian composer. He is known chiefly for his operas influenced by the music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, as well as by jazz. He also composed pieces for piano, violin and organ.
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Gottfried von Einem (24 January 1918 – 12 July 1996) was an Austrian composer. He is known chiefly for his operas influenced by the music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, as well as by jazz. He also composed pieces for piano, violin and organ.
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Biography Einem was born in the Swiss capital Bern into the Einem noble family. According to Einem's publisher, his father was William von Einem, military attaché of the Austro-Hungarian embassy. According to another source, however, he was adopted by Einem, his natural father being the Hungarian aristocrat Count László von Hunyadi. His mother, Baroness Gerta Louise née Rieß von Scheurnschloss, an officer's daughter from Kassel, led a lavish lifestyle between Berlin and Paris. The family moved to Malente in the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein, when Gottfried was four years old. After his school days in Plön and Ratzeburg, Gottfried von Einem went to Berlin in 1937, to study at the State School of Music with Paul Hindemith who nevertheless resigned his post in October that year in protest against his modernist music being banned from public performances by Joseph Goebbels. By the agency of the tenor Max Lorenz, he started an employment as a répétiteur at the Berlin State Opera, where in 1939 Herbert von Karajan became Staatskapellmeister. From 1938 onwards, Einem also worked as an assistant of director Heinz Tietjen at the Bayreuth Festival. In 1941 he began to take counterpoint lessons with Boris Blacher; at that time he…
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Works Einem composed mainly operas based on dramas. He was internationally recognized after the premiere of his opera Dantons Tod at the Salzburg Festival of 1947, conducted by Ferenc Fricsay. His last operas, starting with Jesu Hochzeit, are based on libretti by his second wife, Lotte. In 1973 he wrote as a commission of the UN to commemorate the 30th anniversary of its foundation the cantata An die Nachgeborenen for mezzo-soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra, based on diverse texts. The title is taken from a poem of Bertolt Brecht, translated as To Those Who Follow in Our Wake. The premiere in 1975 in New York with Julia Hamari, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the Chorus of Temple University and the Vienna Symphony was conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini. In England, Einem had two of his operas premiered within days of each other. In May 1973 The Trial (Der Prozeß) received its premiere at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, conducted by Leon Lovett, directed by Fuad Kavur. The following week, at Glyndebourne The Visit of the Old Lady (Der Besuch der alten Dame) received its British premiere, conducted by John Pritchard and directed by John Cox. In May 1996, the chamber chorus Cantori New York,…
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1955 Theodor Körner Prize 1958: Preis der Stadt Wien für Musik (Prize of the City of Vienna for Music) 1960 Associate Member of the Academy of Arts, West Berlin 1965: Grand Austrian State Prize for Music (Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis für Musik) 1974: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art 1975 Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts, East Berlin 1979 Member of the Academy of Arts, West Berlin 1993 Member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin 2002: posthumously Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, for helping save the life of musician Konrad Latte
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Operas Dantons Tod (1947) after the play by Georg Büchner Der Prozeß (1953) after the novel by Franz Kafka
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Der Zerrissene (1964) after Johann Nestroy Der Besuch der alten Dame (1971) after the play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt Kabale und Liebe (1976) after the play by Friedrich Schiller Jesu Hochzeit (1980), libretto by Lotte Ingrisch Tulifant (1990), chamber opera, libretto by Lotte Ingrisch Luzifers Lächeln (1998), libretto by Lotte Ingrisch
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Official website Gottfried von Einem – his activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust, at Yad Vashem website Audio on YouTube, Gottfried von Einem: Munich Symphony, performed by the Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks conducted by Carlos Kalmar