Walter Abendroth
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Walter Abendroth was a German composer
, editor
, and writer on music.
Concertante
Chamber music
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, editor
Editor
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, and writer on music.
Selected compositions
Orchestral- Sinfonietta in drei Sätzen (Sinfonietta in Three Movements) for large orchestra (1924)
- Kleine Orchestermusik (Little Orchestra Music) (1940, with Karl BöhmKarl BöhmKarl August Leopold Böhm was an Austrian conductor. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the 20th century.- Education :...
) - Erste Symphonie (Symphony No. 1) (1941, with Paul van KempenPaul van KempenPaul van Kempen was a Dutch conductor.Van Kempen was born in Zoeterwoude, Netherlands, and later studied at the Amsterdam conservatory from 1910 to 1913, including composition and conducting with Julius Roentgen and Bernard Zweers, as well as violin with Louis Zimmerman...
) - Konzert für Orchester (Concerto for Orchestra) (1943)
Concertante
- Konzert für Bratsche und Orchester (Concerto for Viola and Orchestra)
Chamber music
- Divertimento for flute and viola, Op. 5 (1928)
- Sonata No. 1 in G for viola and piano, Op. 21a (1956)
- Sonata No. 2 in C for viola and piano, Op. 21b (1957)
Books
- Hans Pfitzner (1935)
- Deutsche Musik der Zeitwende. Eine kulturphilosophische Persönlichkeitsstudie über Anton Bruckner und Hans Pfitzner (1937)
- Johannes Brahms. Sein Wesen und seine musikgeschichtliche Bedeutung (1939)
- Die Symphonien Anton Bruckners. Einführungen (1940)
- Hans Pfitzner. Sein Leben in Bildern (1941)
- Vom Werden und Vergehen der Musik (1949)
- Vier Meister der Musik. Bruckner, Mahler, Reger, Pfitzner (1952)
- (Hg.:) Hans Pfitzner. Reden, Schriften, Briefe. Unveröffentlichtes und bisher Verstreutes (1955)
- Bruckner. Eine Bildbiographie (1958)
- Kleine Geschichte der Musik (1959)
- neubearbeitet als: Kurze Geschichte der Musik (1969)
- Selbstmord der Musik? Zur Theorie, Ideologie und Phraseologie des modernen Schaffens (1963)
- Ich warne Neugierige. Erinnerungen eines kritischen Zeitbetrachters (1966)
- Arthur SchopenhauerArthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the four separate manifestations of reason in the phenomenal...
, (1967) - Rudolf SteinerRudolf SteinerRudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. He gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher...
und die heutige Welt. Ein Beitrag zur Diskussion um die menschliche Zukunft (1969) - Reinkarnation (1986)