The ultimate refugee composer

The ultimate refugee composer

Album Of The Week

norman lebrecht

August 30, 2024

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

Don’t try to pin an adjective to Gerhard: he transcends them all. The son of a Swiss-German father and an Alsatian mother, born in Spanish Catalonia, he studied with Arnold Schoenberg in Vienna and Berlin, organised the 1936 seminal modernist festival in Barcelona and left a couple of years later to spend the rest of his life in English exile. None of these nationalities was his…

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  • Ich bin Ereignis says:

    A very underrated composer who deserves to be played much more often. His Piano Concerto is truly a masterpiece, showing the influence of Schoenberg and Bartok. I also enjoy his Concerto for Orchestra.

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