Eklogen, op.11
From Six Piano Pieces, op. 26
From Five Dance Pieces, op. 42
Three Dances, op. 10
Triptychon, op. 98
From Der Abend, op. 4
From Idyllen, op. 21 (5 pieces after poems by Stefan George)
From Three Piano Pieces, op. 9

Egon Wellesz, born 1885, had gained a solid reputation as one of Austria’s most important composers when suddenly his career ended in 1938 with the National Socialists’ takeover. He emigrated to the UK and became Professor for Musicology at Oxford University, highly esteemed as an authority on Byzantine music. As a composer, he developed from a style following the influences of Bruckner, Mahler, and his teacher Schoenberg to an original synthesis of expressionist, neo-classicist and archaic elements. He died in England in 1974.

September 20 | 7:30 pm | Embassy of Austria
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