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‘NALI’ Gruber: Private impressions by a friend

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Otto M. Zykan
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When Heinz Karl Gruber was growing up, it was still the time of church choirs and village wind music, of languidly arpeggiated harmonics on the harp, and promethean glissandi from heaven-storming violinists, of brilliant major keys and oh-so-doleful minor ones, of generous godfathers and old-fashioned aunties, of dying elves, bread-and-dripping, and the tragedy of breaking voices.

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Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 126 , September 1978 , pp. 24 - 25
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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References

1 from Frankenstein!!, text by H. C. Artmann, trs. Harriett Watts

2 ibid. (Parody of an Austrian nursery rhyme, ‘Es geht ein bi-ba-Buzemann’)

3 Paraphrase of a couplet in Frankenstein!!. The author is suggesting that the ‘sting’ of his enthusiams (chiefly for the Second Viennese School) had for a while—that is in the years 1963–65—lured Gruber away from his natural musical habitat. (Eds.)