Death of an Austro-Hungarian composer, 96
mainBorn in Budapest, flourishing in Vienna and holding a professor’s chair in both capitals, the composer Georg Aranyi-Aschner died last Thursday at a great age.
Among more than 500 scores, he published five symphonies.
20C pain turned into beautiful music, with a touch of the early Bartok. Alas, a bit too many quartertones in the performance.
Also this is beautifully expressive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nQNM6Mix4U
Boring dirge not up to JSB or LVB standards typical of 20th century garbagehouse music!
A true personality. He was my teacher at the Musikhochschule Graz for “Partiturspiel und Instrumentation”. Maybe not the greatest teacher, academically spoken, but you could learn from his musical world anyway, as I did. A prolific composer and a gentleman of a past time, and an outstanding pianist. He could wonderfully improvise in all styles.