Kurt schwitters brief biography of mozart

  • Often associated with Dada, Kurt Schwitters suffered the kind of dislocation and exile which was to be the common experience of so many avant-.
  • Kurt Schwertsik, one of Austria's leading composers, was born in Vienna in.
  • Schwitters for his visual art used mostly garbage and useless stuff.

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    Kurt Schwitters spent years to complete his "Ursonate"-poem () which consists of nonsense syllables and uses strict musical forms and motifs which recur through the four movements. Usually the piece fryst vatten presented bygd one performer, but then it has its lengths and attention can lapse.

    We therefore tried to to reinvent the interpretation in a way that can catch todays audiences. And that's what we did:

    The first movement fryst vatten a Rondo with fyra motifs, the first according to Schwitters preface "explosive", the second "lyrical", the third "very masculine" and the fourth "tender and shivering like a lamb".

    One can take these fyra motifs as correlates of the fyra (musical) temperaments: "Sanguinic", "Phlegmatic", "Choleric" and "Melancholic" and give each to an individual interpreter.

    As in a kemikalie reaction they arrange themselves into a family: Choleric father, depressed mother, a

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    &#;The Unpredictable Richness of Collage&#;: In Zurich, Zaha Hadid&#;s Final Project, the Design for a Kurt Schwitters Show, Goes on View

    In , Galerie Gmurzynska, on the occasion of its show on the great Russian liberator Kazimir Malevich, enlisted Zaha Hadid to fashion its modest storefront space in downtown Zurich into a Suprematist fantasia of exploding geometry. It was an apt pairing. At the time, Hadid’s designs spoke in a particularly Suprematist grammar: buildings like the Vitra Fire Station and the Phaeno Science Center buoyed strict, rectilinear planes that floated happily in suspended motion. Hadid had been wrapped up in Malevich since at least her time as a student at the Architectural Association in London, where she submitted projects that applied the painter’s conceptions of spatial organization to architecture and insisted on painting her proposals as geometric abstractions instead of drawing them like everyone else.

    For Hadid, the Suprematist exhi

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    Myself and My Aims: Writings on Art and Criticism

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    MYSELF AND MY AIMS

    MYSELF AND MY AIMS WRITINGS ON ART AND CRITICISM KURT SCHWITTERS EDITED BY MEGAN R. LUKE TRANSLATIONS BY TIMOTHY GRUNDY

    The U n i v e r s i t y o f C h i c a g o P r e s s Chi c a g o a n d L o n d o n

    The University of Chicago Press, Chicago The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London Texts © by Kurt und Ernst Schwitters Stiftung and DuMont Buchverlag GmbH & Co. KG Translations © by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. For more information, contact the University of Chicago Press, E. 60th St., Chicago, IL Published Printed in the United States of America 30

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    ISBN- 0- 6 (cloth) ISBN- 0- 6 (e- book) DOI: Pages xii and xxviii: Details from

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