Hermann Heiss

Hermann Heiss(29 December 1897 – 6 December 1966) was a Germancomposer,pianist, and educator. His work was part of themusic eventin theart competitionat the1932 Summer Olympics.

Life

Heiss was born in Darmstadt and studied composition first in Frankfurt with Sekles in 1921, and then in Vienna withJosef Matthias Hauerfrom 1924 to 1926. After leaving Hauer's tutelage he returned to his native city to study the piano and compose. In 1928 he relocated to the island ofSpiekeroogin the North Sea, where he taught music at the Herman-Lietz School until 1933. He then moved to Berlin where he unsuccessfully sought performances of his works. During the war he composed music for the Luftwaffe and for other military groups (Dubinsky 2001). He was also self-taught. Hauer dedicated his bookTwelve-Tone Technique(1925) to Heiss, who later claimed to have collaborated with Hauer on its contents (Dubinsky 2001). He introducedtwelve-tone musicatDarmstadtin 1946 (Dubinsky 2001) and composedelectronic musicat theStudio for Electronic Music (WDR)inColognein 1956, where hisElektronische Komposition Iwas performed and broadcast in a concert of the Musik der Zeit series on 30 May 1956. He then founded a studio of his own in Darmstadt (Morawska-Büngeler 1988,26, 104, 115).

Sources

• Dubinsky, Gregory S. 2001. "Heiss, Hermann".The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,second edition, edited byStanley SadieandJohn Tyrrell.London: Macmillan Publishers.
• Morawska-Büngeler, Marietta. 1988.Schwingende Elektronen: Eine Dkumentation über das Studio für Elektrnische Musik des Westdeutschen Rundfunks in Köln 1951–1986.Cologne-Rodenkirchen: P. J. Tonger Musikverlag.

External links

• “Pionier der Neuen Musik. Der Komponist Hermann Heiß (Hermann Heiss, new music pioneer)”, article on the web site of ZKM, the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

• Hermann Heiss, "Elektronische Komposition I" (1956)by Werner Kaegi (Translation: Desmond Clayton) (archived 10 October 2009).

• “Hermann Hesse: Elektronische Komposition I,” Recording by Wellesz Theater

• “Hermann Heiß”, biographical page on the web site of ZKM, the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

• “Elektronische Werke von Hermann Heiß (Electronic works of Herman Heiss)”, list of works in the collection page of ZKM, the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

• “Studio für elektronische Komposition Hermann Heiß (1957–1966) (Herman Heiss studio for electronic composition 1957-1966)”, page on the web site of ZKM, the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

• “Das Heiß-Studio im ZKM (The Heiss studio)”, page on the web site of ZKM, the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, listing electronic music generating tools from Heiss’s studio that are in the center’s collection