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Josef Matthias Hauer: A List Of Works

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Roger Gustafson
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The Austrian Theorist and Composer Josef Matthias Hauer evolved a system of 12-tone music which he felt would save music from what he saw as the excesses of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During the years 1918–26 he formulated his ideas concerning 12-tone music into three short treatises: Vom Wesen des Musikalen: Grundlagen der Zwölftonmusik; Vom Melos zur Pauke: Eine Einführung in die Zwölftonmusik; and Zwölftonmusik: Die Lehre von den Tropen. In these three works Hauer presented his ideas concerning the interval as the point of departure for melody, rhythm, and timbre, as well as his concept of music as a ‘pure’ art, which the composer should only approach through a system of ‘tropes’ or ‘tone-constellations’—theories markedly different from those of his contemporary Arnold Schoenberg.

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Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 161-162 , September 1987 , pp. 13 - 23
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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References

1 For a general survey of Hauer's life and music see Gustafson, Roger: ‘Josef Matthias Hauer’, in TEMPO 130 (09 1979), pp. 20–25Google Scholar.

2 Szmolyan, Walter, ‘Josef Matthias Hauer,’ Österreichische Komponisten des XX. Jahrhunderts Vienna: Österreichische Bundesverlag), VI, 70–77Google Scholar.

3 Lichtenfeld, Monika, ‘Untersuchungen zur Theorie der Zwölftontechnik bei Josef Matthias Hauer,’ Kölner Beiträge zur Musiltforschung, ed. Fellerer, Karl Gustav (Regensburg: Gustav Bosse Verlag, 1964), XXIX, 191–201Google Scholar.