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Schröder (1896-1987)
The German composer and viola player was born on July 4th, 1896. He studied composition and musicology in Freiburg, where his teachers included Julius Weismann and Willibald Gurlitt. After serving as solo viola player at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus (1924-25), he played in a number of orchestras in Berlin. He attracted considerable attention during the early 1930s as a member of the Harlan Trio (together with his wife, Cornelia Schröder [Auerbach], and instrument maker Peter Harlan), and ensemble that performed medieval and Renaissance music on historical instruments. In 1935, because of his wife's Jewish heritage and his connections with the worker's music movement, Schröder was excluded from the Reichsmusikkammer. Although special permission allowed him to work as a violist at a Berlin theater, his political difficulties continued after 1945, as he worked in East and lived in West Berlin. In 1965 he became adviser to the Gruppe Neue Musik Berlin. His honors include the Johann Wenzel Stamitz prize (1983).
Schröder's compositions of the 1920s and 1930s are stylistically close to Neue Sachlichkeit. After 1949, he freely integrated the twelve-tone technique into his compositional style. Linear part-writing, supported by unresolved dissonances and chromaticism plays a central role in his works. His later compositions are characterized by rougher melodic lines and an economic use of musical material.
2. Music for Orchestra / Chamber Orchestra
5. Chamber Music for String Instruments
6. Chamber Music for Wood Wind Instruments
7. Chamber Music for Saxophon(s)
8. Music for Plucked Instruments
10. Vocal Music (Lied, Secular Cantatas, Sacred Cantatas, Song Cantatas, Choir a cappella) Lied
IV. Bibliography on H. Schröder N. Schüler: Hanning Schröder. Hamburg: von Bockel, 1996. N. Schüler: Zwischen Noten und Gesellschaftssystemen. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 1996.
V. Bibliography of H. Schröder's Writings
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