Edith Kraus studied piano with Artur Schnabel and was a fellow inmate of composer Viktor Ullman at Theresienstadt. Just before her 80th birthday, in 1993, she recorded Ullman's first four piano sonatas. He wrote these in the 1930s and early '40s, just before he was sent to Theresienstadt, and they represent his "middle" period of composition. In them, Ullman successfully marries the seeming opposite harmonic principles of Romantic and Second Viennese School music. The sonatas are not quite atonal, in a way similar to the ...
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Edith Kraus studied piano with Artur Schnabel and was a fellow inmate of composer Viktor Ullman at Theresienstadt. Just before her 80th birthday, in 1993, she recorded Ullman's first four piano sonatas. He wrote these in the 1930s and early '40s, just before he was sent to Theresienstadt, and they represent his "middle" period of composition. In them, Ullman successfully marries the seeming opposite harmonic principles of Romantic and Second Viennese School music. The sonatas are not quite atonal, in a way similar to the elusive tonality of Messiaen's music or the polytonality of Scriabin's late works. The opening of the Piano Sonata No. 1, in fact, sounds much like Messiaen's wonder-filled, shining piano works. However, reflecting the state of life in Europe at the time, these sonatas are overshadowed for the most part. There is tension and darkness in the music, but tension is always relieved in the end, either through a return to consonance or quieter dynamics, and the weight of the darkness is...
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