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Symphonic Dimensions Publishing – The Publishing House of Otto M. Schwarz

His teachers included Josef Pomberger (trumpet) and Heinz Kratochwil (composition). From 1988 Otto Schwarz taught at the music school in Wimpassing and has led the local youth band since 1990. [3] Earlier compositions by Otto Martin Schwarz include the Premiere March for Wind Orchestra from 1992.

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Friedrich Cerha

At the age of 96: Composer and conductor Friedrich Cerha died.

In 1958 Friedrich Cerha, together with his wife Gertraud Cerha and fellow composer Kurt Schwertsik, founded the chamber ensemble “Die Reihe”, which set itself the task of making modern composers such as Alban Berg, Anton Webern and Arnold Schönberg known. “Born in 1926, he made us aware of how much

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Gone with the Wind – Max Steiner on the 50th Anniversary of his Death

Max Steiner was born in Vienna’s Leopoldstadt in the Hotel Nordbahn and came from a wealthy theatre dynasty that was friends with many composers. Sein Großvater Maximilian Steiner war unter anderem Direktor am Theater an der Wien, und sein Vater Gabor Steiner arbeitete in Wien ebenfalls als Theaterdirektor. Mit einem

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