Twelve-Tone Protest – Thoughts on Hanns Eisler’s Gegen den Krieg
In the music of Austrian composer Hanns Eisler (1898–1962), steadfast rejection of war plays a conspicuous and consistently present role.
In the music of Austrian composer Hanns Eisler (1898–1962), steadfast rejection of war plays a conspicuous and consistently present role.
Brutpflegerinnen members Eva Puchner and Susanne Preissl, mdw graduates Golnar Shahyar and Simon Scharinger, and Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology head Marko Kölbl discuss whether art has to be political and the contexts in which it can support protest movements.
Artists’ 100th birthdays are eagerly embraced as opportunities to take a renewed deep dive into their oeuvres. In 2023, both on these pages and elsewhere, the mdw is devoting special attention to the Hungarian-Austrian composer György Ligeti.
This year’s Vienna Days of Contemporary Piano Music were devoted entirely to György Ligeti in celebration of what would have been the composer’s 100th birthday.
An International Musicological Conference on György Ligeti’s Centenary.
Viele von uns kennen das vielleicht: Wenn sich die ersten Rückenschmerzen im Alltag auftun, wird einem bewusst, dass man einfach nicht jünger wird und ein bisschen mehr Bewegung wahrscheinlich auch kein Fehler wäre.
In this interview with mdw Magazine, she speaks about her experiences as a musician in healthcare and as a researcher studying the power of music to catalyse social change in hospitals and nursing homes for both patients and residents, but above all for the involved healthcare professionals, whom music helps to experience deeper humane connections in on-the-job interactions in the face of their everyday professional lives’ enormous demands.
Im September 2022 war Lilly Haller zusammen mit ihrer Musiktherapeutin Brigitte Meier-Sprinz und dem betreuenden Neuropädiater Andreas Sprinz als Vortragende zu Gast an der mdw beim Symposium Music Therapy with Families in Wien.
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