Hauer/ Henck - Klavierwerke

When rehearsals of Arnold Schoenberg's piano works for published by WERGO CD Herbert Henck met again in the name of the Austrian composer Josef Matthias Hauer. Hauer had developed it's own twelve-tone technique before Schoenberg and ended in later years his manifestos and letters even with a specially made stamp "The spiritual author and (despite many imitators!) Still the only connoisseurs and experts of twelve-tone". The first compositions Hauer's have a similar historical and technical approach as the works of the Second Viennese School. However, Hauer developed within a few years an own distinctive style, which had to do with Schoenberg's work is little. The music was unlike anything that was then composed. In the contemporary literature on Hauer recognition and appreciation were like the following rather the exception. . About the "Nachklangstudien" op 16 of the Vienna philosopher Ferdinand Ebner, inter alia, wrote: "This study should, if it is to be played correctly, only breathed as it were over the strings, you have to forget that the piano has a hammer Wondraschek called them. The 'smile of God'. "