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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
In 1960, at the age of 17, Gruber wrote the first two pieces which he is still prepared to acknowledge: the Suite for 2 pianos, wind instruments, and percussion, and the Mass for mixed chorus, two trumpets, cor anglais, double bass and percussion. It is worth considering what that acknowledgement implies, for the works themselves clearly do not measure up to the high technical standards Gruber sets himself today, or even to those which he achieved in the Concerto for Orchestra sketched that same year.
page 18 note * Holthusen, Hans Egon ‘Singsang mit Höllengelächter’, in Uber H. C. Artmann (Suhrkamp, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1973) pp. 74–77Google Scholar.
page 18 note † Hero of Italian-made Westerns.
page 19 note * The synthesis certainly owes much to the antithetical example of Kurt Schwertsik's Liebesträume (in which may be discerned the origins of both the ‘Salon’ and the ‘MOB’ styles)
page 19 note † Bletschacher, Richard, Gomorra, ein musikalisches Spektakel in einem Vorspiel sechs Bildern and einem Nachspiel; in Bletschacher, Die Seidenraupen und andere Theaterstücke für Musik, Vienna, 1973Google Scholar.
page 20 note * Like the Frankenstein-Suite and many of the pieces for the MOB Ensemble, Gomorra was written straight into full score with the barest minimum of preliminary sketches.