Hermann Heiss (29 December 1897 – 6 December 1966) was a German

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

, pianist, and educator. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the

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Life

Heiss was born in Darmstadt and studied composition first in Frankfurt with Bernhard Sekles in 1921, and then in Vienna with

Josef Matthias Hauer Josef Matthias Hauer (March 19, 1883 – September 22, 1959) was an Austrian composer and music theorist. He is best known for developing, independent of and a year or two before Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 Septembe ...

from 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 of Spiekeroog in the North Sea, where he taught music at the 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 . He was also self-taught. Hauer dedicated his book ''Twelve-Tone Technique'' (1925) to Heiss, who later claimed to have collaborated with Hauer on its contents . He introduced twelve-tone music at

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in 1946 and composed

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at the Studio for Electronic Music (WDR) in

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in 1956, where his ''Elektronische Komposition I'' was 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 .

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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

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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Heiss, Hermann 20th-century German classical composers Twelve-tone and serial composers 1897 births 1966 deaths Georg Büchner Prize winners German male classical composers Musicians from Darmstadt Place of death missing 20th-century German male musicians Art competitors at the 1932 Summer Olympics Pupils of Josef Matthias Hauer