Hugo Kauder

Hugo Kauder (9 June 1888 – 22 July 1972) was an Austrian-Jewish composer, music theorist, and teacher. He composed in a relatively traditional, Brahmsian contrapuntal–harmonic manner with substantial modal mixture.

Kauder sought a synthesis of sound and word in his vocal music and was attentive to texts, praising the word painting of Schoenberg's Op. 15 Stefan George settings. He was close to Rudolph Pannwitz, who wrote aphorisms and was influenced by George and Friedrich Nietzsche.

He wrote over 300 works. A society (2002) and performance competition (2003) were founded in his name.

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