KASTELEWICZ music in progress - Komponist Hauschild

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The Composer Kurt Hauschild

“Can you find a math lecture enjoyable if you don’t know anything about math?
I think so. Because a dignified-looking and well-lectured professor spreads an aura of sublime spirituality, which does not fail to make its impression on the layman either and makes the lecture an experience for him. A large part of the people enjoy music in just this way, without understanding anything about it.
Just as one has the right profit from a mathematics lecture only if one can also follow the explanations mathematically, one has, I think, the right profit from music only if one understands it.” [1]

This is how Kurt Hauschild begins his remarks on his understanding of music. They show his strong connection to mathematics and the rational.

Dr. rer. nat. habil. Kurt Hauschild was a mathematician by profession, but his main interest throughout his life was music.

[1] From Kurt Hauschild “Über Musikverständnis”, p. 1, copy in private possession

Catalog of works

The extensively annotated catalog of Kurt Hauschild’s works (110 pages), compiled by A.B.Kastelewicz, with a curriculum vitae, includes chamber music (strings, piano, voice) and solo works:

1 quintet

14 quartets

1 trio

7 duets

54 piano works

6 songs

4 ballads

1 work in preparation

In total 88 works.

The individual works are numbered with the designation KHV.

The list can be ordered from the agency.

Edition String Quartet No. 8

The String Quartet No. 8, KHV No. 2.9, is also called “Jan Palach”. It was composed by Kurt Hauschild after the suppression of the Prague Spring and the self-immolation (1968) of the student Jan Palach and edited by A.B.Kastelewicz. The edition can be ordered from the agency.