{"id":3112,"date":"2019-09-27T13:33:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T11:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/magazin\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T09:30:14","slug":"rezension-hugo-kauder-1888-1972-komponist-musikphilosoph-theoretiker-eine-biographie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/magazin\/2019\/09\/27\/rezension-hugo-kauder-1888-1972-komponist-musikphilosoph-theoretiker-eine-biographie\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Review: Hugo Kauder (1888\u20131972): Komponist \u2013 Musikphilosoph \u2013 Theoretiker,\u00ad Eine Biographie"},"content":{"rendered":"<b>Karin Wagner, <i>Hugo Kauder (1888\u20131972): \u00adKomponist \u2013 Musikphilosoph \u2013 Theoretiker, Eine Biographie <\/i>(exil.arte-Schriften 4) (Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: B\u00f6hlau, 2018); ISBN: 978-3-205-20015-4.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>With her recent monograph on Hugo Kauder (1888\u20131972) published in 2018 as part of the series <i>exil.arte-Schriften,<\/i> musicologist Karin Wagner has given the interested reading public a biography of a composer, music philosopher, and theoretician who was forced to flee National Socialist-ruled Austria. The author provides insights into the emotional world of a protagonist who was raised in a rural environment and then found fulfilment in Europe\u2019s musical metropolis. She structures this biography according to the stages of Kauder\u2019s life: Tobitschau\/Tovacov in Moravia, the city of his childhood in a musically isolated, devoutly Jewish environment; Vienna, the city of his musical awakening in exchange with Karl Weigl, Alexander Zemlinsky, Robert Fuchs, and Gustav Mahler; and finally New York, a city for where music could arrive, survive, and thrive.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3114\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3114\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boehlau-verlag.com\/978-3-205-20015-4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/magazin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/post-1_image0-19-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/magazin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/post-1_image0-19-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/magazin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/post-1_image0-19.jpg 677w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 B\u00f6hlau Verlag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Between Vienna and New York, the author inserts the turbulent chapter <i>Pause zwischen \u00adVergangenheit und Zukunft<\/i> [Intermission between the Past and the Future], which contains a sequence of pivotal episodes: Kauder\u2019s experience of the <i>Anschluss<\/i> [Nazi Germany\u2019s \u201cannexation\u201d of Austria] in Vienna and his increasingly important exchange with Sch\u00f6nberg pupil Hermann Grab during this period, Kauder\u2019s process of grappling with the notions of escape and exile, and his inevitably necessary but fortunate escape from Vienna in 1938. Wagner allows her protagonist to be heard frequently in the form of letters such as those he wrote to the philosopher Rudolf Pannwitz. In this way, readers are afforded an inside look at Kauder\u2019s emigration, which took him first to the Netherlands and subsequently to his wife and son in London a few months later, and they also learn of the impressions had by Kauder upon his February 1940 arrival in New York\u2014the final destination of an emigratory odyssey that, for him, was a matter of \u201conce and for all\u201d (<i>\u201cEin=f\u00fcr allemal\u201d<\/i>, 146)\u2014meaning that he would never return to Vienna. The author frames all of these life situations with a detailed analysis of Kauder\u2019s musical output, including his development of a theory of scales in Vienna based on the ancient Greek tetrachord system that he later on\u2014as a \u201cpassionate teacher\u201d in New York\u2014combined with counterpoint, leading to teaching job offers from various American universities. Author Wagner rounds out this biography with the first comprehensive catalogue of Kauder\u2019s works and also surprises readers with selected correspondence in the appendix.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With her recent monograph on Hugo Kauder published in 2018 as part of the series exil.arte-Schriften, musicologist Karin Wagner has given the interested reading public a biography of a composer, music philosopher, and theoretician who was forced to flee National Socialist-ruled Austria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":3114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[808,815,153,55,816],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-2019-3","tag-hugokauder","tag-review","tag-rezension","tag-susanne-korbel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/magazin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/magazin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/magazin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/magazin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/magazin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/magazin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3703,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/magazin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/3703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/magazin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/magazin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/magazin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/magazin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}