{"id":1112,"date":"2013-08-10T16:41:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T16:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ima.or.at\/?page_id=1112"},"modified":"2013-08-16T13:47:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T13:47:41","slug":"info-max-brand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/info-max-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Brand Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Max Brand | \u00a9 Max Brand Archiv<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

written by Helmuth Schwarzjirg<\/p>\n

1896 Max Brand was born on April 26th in Lemberg (this day Lviw \/ Ukraine) .
\n1907 moved with his parents (Jakob und Ida Brand) to Vienna \/ Austria.
\n1909-10 Attendance of the private school (Institut am Rosenberg) in St.Gallen (Switzerland).
\n1915 Intending as a One-Year-Volunteer in the k.u.k Army.
\n1916 Nomination as a Leutnant der Reserve.
\nfrom 1918 Education of Franz Schreker in Vienna.
\nfrom 1921 Education of Franz Schreker and Alois Haba in Berlin\u20281921 | Debut as a composer at the international music festival in Winterthur (The composition from that time are lost).
\n1922 First preserved piece Nachtmusik<\/em> f\u00fcr Kammerorchester.
\nfrom 1924 Max Brand lives again in Vienna. | At 13. September 1924 Max Brand experiences the world premiere by Arnold Sch\u00f6nbergs Bl\u00e4serquintett op. 26, one of the first works, which Sch\u00f6nberg wrote in twelvve-ton technique.
\n1925 Marriage with Fela G\u00fctermann from Salzburg. | Rooter of Karl Kraus.
\n1926-27 Compositions for the revues of the communistic Roten Hilfe (lost). | Establishment of the Mimoplastisches Theaters<\/em> f\u00fcr Ballett. | Composition of the Balletts Trag\u00f6dietta<\/em>.
\n1928 World premiere of Max Brands F\u00fcnf Balladen nach Else Lasker Sch\u00fcler<\/em> (Biblische Balladen).
\n1929 Death of Fela Brand.\u2028 | World premiere of the opera Maschinist Hopkins<\/em> at the Tonk\u00fcnstlerfest in Duisburg on April 13th.
\n1932 With Hans Heinsheimer foudation of a opera – studio at the Vienna Raimundtheater. In that context Austrian premiere of Kurt Weills opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagony<\/em>. | Experiment with Sound film.
\n1938 Emigration to Prag.
\n1939 Emigration to Rio.
\n1940 Marriage with Anna Skutsch on September 28th. | Friendship with Heitor Villa-Lobos, to whom he dedicate his chamber music piece Peca para flauto e piano\u2028<\/em> | Emigration to New York.
\n1944 Performance of the scenic oratorio The Gate<\/em> at the Metropolitan Opera on May 23rd \u20281945. | US Citizien.
\n1950 World premiere of the symphonic poem The Wonderful One-Hoss-Shay<\/em> with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Eugene Ormandy on Jannuary the 20th.
\nfrom 1959 establishment of an electronic studio in his own house. | Together with Fred Cochran and Robert Moog he buildup a synthesizer (Moogtonium).
\n1973 Concertante partly performance of the opera Maschinist Hopkins<\/em> conducting Friedrich Cerha at Steirischer Herbst.
\n1975 Return to Austria (Langenzersdorf near Vienna).
\n1979 Performance of the electronic epic The Astronauts<\/em> in the Foyer at the Wiener Konzerthaus.
\n1980 Death on April the 5th in the Landeskrankenhaus Klosterneuburg-Gugging. | Cremation on the Wiener Zentralfriedhof (Honorary grave from the City of Vienna).
\n1989 Establishment of the Max Brand Archiv at Hanak Museum in Langenzersdorf.<\/p>\n

The following electronic pieces by Max Brand can be dated and remained:
\n1959 \/ Jungle Drums, Drums of Africa | 1960 \/ Funeral for a Cat, Nocturno Brasiliero | 1962 \/ The Astronauts, Four French Folk Songs | 1963 \/ Stormy Sea | 1973 \/ Ilian<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

written by Helmuth Schwarzjirg 1896 Max Brand was born on April 26th in Lemberg (this day Lviw \/ Ukraine) . 1907 moved with his parents (Jakob und Ida Brand) to Vienna \/ Austria. 1909-10 Attendance of the private school (Institut am Rosenberg) in St.Gallen (Switzerland). 1915 Intending as a One-Year-Volunteer in the k.u.k Army. 1916 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1112\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}