COMPANY: Capriccio
ARTIST: Oliver Triendl
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Maria Herz

Product: 845221055107

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Maria Herz: Concertos · Orchestral Works

Oliver Triendl, Konstanze von Gutzeit, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Christiane Silber

Maria Herz, née Bing, was born in Cologne in 1878. In the 1920s, she was recognized as a dynamic element of the contemporary music scene. The "chief theorist" of New Music, Theodor W. Adorno, was interested in her works and her style, which was rooted in late Romanticism and aimed towards Modernism via Expressionism, New Objectivity and Neo-Baroque, while retaining its playful charm. She was close to a veritable Who's Who of contemporary musicians, including the Budapest String Quartet, Gregor Piatigorsky, Emanuel Feuermann, Hermann Abendroth, Otto Klemperer and Hans Rosbaud.

Only five songs (1910) and a transcription of Bach's Chaconne for string quartet (1927) were published during her lifetime, but all of her 30 orchestral works, solo concertos, chamber music pieces and art songs have been preserved in manuscript. The Nazis confiscated her family's assets and forced Maria Herz to emigrate, first to England and after the war to the United States, where she lived with her children and died in New York in 1950.

Albert Maria Herz (1878-1950)

Klavierkonzert op.4