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Hermann Heiss

1897 - 1966

Germany

H. Heiss

Hermann Heiss [Heiß; pseudonym: Georg Frauenfelder] (29/12/1897 - 06/12/1966), a German composer; born and died in Darmstadt, Germany. He studied with Josef Matthias Hauer and was also self-taught. Hauer dedicated his book Twelve-Tone Technique to Heiss. He later taught twelve-tone music at Darmstadt and composed electronic music at Cologne.

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Heiss

Requiem

Period:	Expressionism
Composed in:	1947
Musical form:	song
Text/libretto:	Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) & Hermann Heiss (1897-1966)
Duration:	27'

Requiem for SA soli and strings.

Source:

Robert Chase, Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music, Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2003

Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) was a German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages.

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_R%C3%BCckert

Friedrich Rückert
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