Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (1919-1994) was a composer born in Kraków who worked in Israel in the early 1950s and settled in Vienna in 1957. He is known for graphic scores and for open forms he called mobiles, in which the order of the material is not fixed. Haubenstock-Ramati studied with Artur Malawski in Kraków and Józef Koffler in Lviv. He headed the music department of Radio Kraków from 1947 to 1950 and the state music library in Tel Aviv from 1950 to 1956. In Vienna he was an editor at Universal Edition until 1968 and taught composition at the Academy of Music from 1973.
Eleven compositions for the 80th Birthday of Dr. Alfred A. Kalmus by some of the most representative composers of avant-garde (David Bedford, Hugh Wood, Pierre Boulez, Richard Rodney Bennett, Luciano Berio, Cristobal Halffter, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Harrison Birtwistle, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bernard Rands, Henri Pousseur) released on Universal Edition in 1976.
Rare compositions for solo instruments or small ensembles with or without electronics by some of the greatest XXth Century composers (Mauricio Kagel, Earle Brown, John Cage, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Wolfgang Fortner, Klaus Hinrich Stahmer, György Ligeti, Henri Pousseur) spanning from 1952 to 1979 performed by Pro Musica Da Camera and released on Thorofon in 1981. With insert.
condition (record/cover): VG+ (record looks near mint but has some surface noise) / VG+ (small tag on front + light wear) Political consciousness meets avant-garde innovation. This Italian RCA Red Seal release dedicates itself to the victims of Hiroshima through landmark compositions of social protest and sonic experimentation. Bruno Maderna (1920-1973), conductor and co-founder of Milan's Studio di Fonologia, leads the Soloists of the Rome Symphony Orchestra with flutist Severino Gazzelloni in …
Concert music for solo harp: The harp, whose ancestor belongs to the most ancient musical instruments, is usually associated with impressionistic sound. But Roman Haubenstock-Ramati - the most visionary inventor of sounds among contemporary composers, according to Wilhelm Sinkovicz – has never been satisfied with the status quo. So, while teaching composition and investigating new forms of musical notation, he succeeded in his endeavor to explore new possibilities of musical expression again and…