Universal Edition - Friedrich Cerha

Friedrich Cerha
*17.02.1926

Future Performances

Neun Präludien
02.08.2013, Salzburg (A)
Étoile
03.08.2013, Salzburg (A)
Les Adieux (Elegie)
18.08.2013, Luzern (CH)
1. Keintate
11.09.2013, Bonn (D)
Paraphrase über den Anfang der 9. Symphonie von Beethoven
12.09.2013, Schwaz (A)

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Friedrich Cerha

The Composer

Catalogue of works

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1926 – Born in Vienna on 17 February.

1933 – Violin instruction with Anton Pejhovsky.

1935 – First attempts at composition.

1936 – Attends the Realgymnasium in Vienna's 17th district.

1939 – Instruction in counterpoint and harmony.

1943 – Drafted as Luftwaffe support personnel and sent to Achau near Vienna.

1944 – Entrance into the German military; training at an officers' academy in Denmark.

1945 – Desertion during a transport to Germany; contact to the Danish and German resistance efforts; travel by foot to Tirol. Works there as cabin keeper and mountain guide. Return to Vienna in November.

1946 – [...]

About the Music

Read an extensive interview with Friedrich Cerha.

Video language: German (with English subtitles)

His Works
After the end of World War 2, Cerha focused on concertizing and teaching the then dominant neo-classicism (his Divertimento of 1948 represents homage to Stravinsky). Later, he took as starting points the works of Anton Webern, and from 1956 serial techniques of the avantgarde, developing his own style with such pieces as Relazioni fragili, Espressioni fondamentali, Intersecazioni. With works such as Mouvements, Fasce and his Spiegel cycle (1960-61) he created his own language of sound free from traditional schemata. Despite apparent similarities with works written at [...]

10 of 95 Works

Adaxl-Suite | for piano 1987
Aderngeflecht | after poems by Emil Breisach | for baritone and orchestra 2006
Les Adieux (Elegie) | for ensemble | new version 2007 2005
Arbeitsbericht | zur Herstellung des 3. Aktes der Oper Lulu von Alban Berg –
Baal | Bühnenwerk in 2 Teilen 1980
Baal | Bühnenwerk in 2 Teilen | reduced version 1980
Baal-Gesänge | for baritone and orchestra 1981
9 Bagatellen | for string trio 2008
Berceuse céleste | for orchestra 2006
"bevor es zu spät ist..." | for tenor and orchestra 1997

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