Dokumentation und Hommage für Bert Breit zum 75er / [Herausgeber: Othmar Costa, Bernhard Triendl].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Costa, Othmar.

Treindl, Bernhard.

Altenburger, Christian, 1957- performer.

Davies, Dennis Russell, conductor.

Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, performer.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Breit, Bert, 1927-2004.

Breit, Bert.

Composers--Austria.

Composers.

String trios.

String quartets.

Austria.

Concertos (Viola with string orchestra).

Mauthausen (Concentration camp).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Genre:

String quartets.

Personal narratives.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

183 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm + 2 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Innsbruck : Costa, 2002.

Contents:

Contents of sound discs. Disc 1. Hedwig und Agnes (53:55). Jodler Nr. 7 (4:52). Jodler Nr. 9 (3:15). Jodler Nr. 10 (2:53). Jodler Nr. 11 (3:39)

Disc 2. Der Todesmarsch 1945 (51:10). Concerto funebre (22:35).

Notes:

Festschrift.

Documentation of author's works as a composer and a radio journalist. On the sound discs, the 1st work, and 6th works are "Hörbilder," radio programs consisting of reporting and dramatization. The 1st work consists of an oral history of two sisters from the Imst region of Austria and is a combination of conversation between the sisters and connecting narrative . The 6th work features interviews with eyewitnesses about the 1945 death march at the railroad tracks to Mauthausen. The 2nd-5th works for 3 or 4 strings; the 7th for viola and string orchestra, performed by Christian Altenburger, viola, Radio Symphonieorchester Wien, Dennis Russell Davis [i.e. Davies], conductor.

"Werkeliste": pages 179-183.

Contains:

Breit, Bert, 1927-2004. Jodler, no. 7.

Breit, Bert, 1927-2004. Jodler, no. 9-11.

Breit, Bert, 1927-2004. Concertos, viola, string orchestra.

OCLC:

123318831