Rating: - American Record Guide
".... The writing is rich, with generous melodic material given to the inner voices, particularly to the viola; and he [Kauder] is extremely creative and inventive while always using a tonal musical vocabulary. .... Hearing Kauder's superb music adds a completely new dimension to my perception of the kind of music that was being written in Vienna in the 1920s. ... A few years ago I heard a performance of a choral piece by Kauder that made a profound impression on me, and I wondered then why I had ... Read More
Rating: - MusicWeb International - Recording of the Month (Sept. '07)
"Recording of the Month" (September 2007).
" ..... This disc was one of the more pleasant and unexpected surprises to come across the desk in a while. One can only hope that the Euclid and other performers will explore more of this composer's work. ..."
"... From the first measures of the first quartet the listener is captivated by the dense and somewhat jagged writing, and then we are quite surprised by a slow movement that is richly tonal and lush and quite beautiful. .... ... Read More
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Over 200 instrumental works including 5 symphonies, 9 concertos, 19 string
quartets, chamber music for many different combinations, over 100 vocal works
based on texts in German, English, and Dutch including settings of poems by
Albert Verwey, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Goethe, Nietzsche, Rudolf Pannwitz and
others, works published in 1920s by Universal Edition and Doblinger in Vienna,
Boosey and Hawkes USA in 1950s Southern Music and Seesaw Music co USA 1970 and
later, also complete works on microfiche by Brookhaven Press Washington DC, Fromm Foundation award 1953.
Life
Born 1888 lived and worked in Vienna 1905-1938, in New York 1940-1972 after
brief stays in Holland and England, spent summers in Holland 1954-1972. played
and taught violin and viola, member of Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra 1910-1917
and Gottesmann Quartet 1918-1924, free lance teaching and composing rest of his
life. Wrote reviews of concerts and publications and essays on musical
subjects, published in 1920s in Musikblätter des Anbruch, Vienna, and in 1940s
in Austro-American Tribune, German language weekly in New York
