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Karl Amadeus Hartmann ( August 2, 1905 - December 5, 1963) was a German composer. Some have lauded him as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century.Hartmann studied at the Munich Academy in the 1920s. He voluntarily withdrew completely from musical life in Germany during the Nazi era, while remaining in Germany, but his work continued to be performed, and his fame grew, abroad. During the war a pupil of Anton Webern.
After the war he finished a number of fine works, most notably eight symphonies.
Hartmann's style is eclectic. In the earlier works, the influence of Mahler and Bruckner is evident, as well as the contrapuntal idiom of Max Reger. Later, he adopted some stylistic traits of the neoclassical composers such as Paul Hindemith, and middle-period Stravinsky. Although he studied with Webern, and understood Schoenberg, the influence of BergInset of portrait of Berg by Arnold Schoenberg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( February 9, 1885 December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School along with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, producing works that comb is more pronounced in his work than either of the other two members of the Second Viennese SchoolThe Second Viennese School was a group of composers made up of Arnold Schoenberg and those who studied under him in early 20th century Vienna. Their music is characterised by atonalism and Schoenberg's twelve tone technique. The principal members of the s.
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