Biography Hermann Heiß
29.12.1897 | born in Darmstadt. | |
First exposure to music at home. | ||
1916 | Military draft. | |
1919 | Return from American captivity. There first encounters with jazz. In the following years autodidactic studies. | |
1921 | Composition lessons with Bernhard Sekles, piano with Willy Renner Frankfurt/Main. | |
1922 | First performances, Heiß joins the Freie Gesellschaft für Musik. | |
1923–1925 | Herman Heiß is increasingly occupied with twelve-tone music. Acquaintance with Josef Matthias Hauer. Studied with Hauer in Vienna. | |
1925/1926 | Composition E-F-minor-D for piano, for Heiß a defining and fundamental work. | |
1926/27 | Piano lessons with Alfred Hoehn in Frankfurt/Main | |
1928–1933 | Music teacher on Spiekeroog | |
1933–1941 | Freelance composer in Berlin, propaganda music. Commissioned work for the 1936 Olympics "Das Jahresrad", performance stopped, 1937 the fairy tale opera "Prinzessin Filigran". | |
1942 | Return to Darmstadt | |
1944 | Air raid on Darmstadt, many plants burn. Hermann Heiß goes to Vienna and teaches at the Music School, City of Vienna. | |
1946 | Darmstadt. Musical and cultural commitment at Ottenheimer. Lecturer for composition at the Darmstadt Summer Courses. | |
1948 | Georg Büchner Prize. Teacher for composition and composition at the Städtische Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. | |
1951 | First interest in electronic sound generation. | |
1952–1954 | Experiments at the (N)WDR Studio in Cologne. First electronic works: 1953 "Electronic Studies", 1954 "Electronic Discontinuum." | |
1955 | Head of the "Studio for Electronic Composition" at the Kranichsteiner Music Institute. | |
1956/57 | Development of the Heiß-Vollmer tape recorder for more rational processing of the tape. | |
12.07.57 | Foundation of the "Studio für elektronische Komposition Hermann Heiß Darmstadt" in the adjoining building of the Städtische Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. In the following years, until his death, this studio produced numerous electronic compositions and commissioned music for stage, radio, film and television. | |
from 1957 | National and international lectures on electronic music. | |
1958 | Goethe Medal of the State of Hesse, Johann Heinrich Merck Award of the City of Darmstadt. | |
06.12.66 | Hermann Heiß dies in Darmstadt. |