Günter Bialas - Works for Piano and Orchestra

Günter BIALAS (1907-1995)

Musik Für Klavier Und Orchester (1990)

Concerto Lirico Für Klavier Und Orchester (1967)

3 Moments Musicaux Für Klavier

Siegfried Mauser (Piano)

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Mathias Husmann 

Recording: 29-30 October 1991 (1-3); 23-26 September 1992 (4-6); April 1994 (7-9)

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“Whether the music I write is simple or complex depends entirely on what I want to express. Simplicity must be permissible even today: it has just become more difficult to attain since we stumble all too quickly upon depleted material. I have become more sensitive to extraneous notes. The content of my work is purely musical in nature, and I want to project it as openly as possible - not disguised, not encrypted, not hidden behind an excess of artifice. I want to express myself clearly and not try to say many things at once. I would be happiest if I could reduce the compositional pro-cess, as Verdi did, to 'melody and accompaniment'...

A selection of pitches seems to me to give greater character and variety than the continuous presence of all twelve. Much the same can be said of rhythm: when it becomes too complex, it cancels itself out... My music cannot get along without large-scale tonal relations.”

Günter Bialas (1993) 

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A Chronology of his Life:

1907 Born in Bielschowitz, Upper Silesia, on 19 July

1922-1925 Studied piano and music theory with Fritz Lubrich in Kattowitz

1926-1928 Studied musicology and German language and literate in Breslau

1928-1931 Studied music education in Berlin, then composition in Max Trapp’s master class at the Berlin Academy of the Arts

Member of “Kreis der Zwölf”, a group of composers led by Fritz Jöde

1933 Music teacher in Breslau

1939-1941 Lecturer in music theory at the Institute of Music Education, Breslau University

1945 Moved to Munich and Glonn, Upper Bavaria

1946 Choir director of the Munich Bach Society

1947  Theory teacher at the Weimar Musikhochschule;

composition teacher at Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold                 

1950 Professorship

1954 First prize in music from state of North Rhine-Westphalia

1959 Professorship in composition at the Munich Musikhochschule

1962 Munich Music Award

1964 Johann Wenzel Stamitz Award from Esslingen Artists’ Guild

1967 Music award from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

1969 Member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

1971 Premier award from the Upper Silesian Cultural Award Committee

1975 Member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts

1980 Silesian Art Award from state of Lower Saxony

1982 Gold Medal “München leuchtet” from city of Munich

1987 Cultural prize from city of Munich

1988 Paul Hindemith Award from Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival

1989 Cultural prize from Bavarian State Foundation

1992 “Kultur aktuell” Prize 

1992 Gold medallion from city of Munich

1995 died on 8 July in Glonn/Upper Bavaria.