Eugene Hartzell was born on 21 May 1932 in Cincinnati (USA), but lives in Vienna. He studied piano, music theory, history, English and composition at Kent State University and Yale University. From 1956 to 1958 and from 1960 to 1962, Hartzell studied composition privately with Hans Erich Apostel in Vienna. From 1960 to 1970, he was musical correspondant for the London Times. From 1974 to 1991, he was a producer at Radio Austria International. In 1986, Hartzell founded the Ensemble Wiener Collage with René Staar and Erik Freitag.
Works
Sonatina for Clarinet(1957) [Monologue 1]
D: 10'
Pub:
Doblinger 05 310
Two Pieces for Orchestra (1962)
D: 12'
Pub: Doblinger StP 185,
Leihmaterial
FP: 12 December 1962 (Wien)
Four Madrigals for 4-Part Mixed Chorus a cappella (1962)
Movements: 1. Who goes Amid the Green Wood, 2. Winds of May, 3. Though I Thy
Mithridates Were, 4. Gentle Lady
T: James Joyce
Seven Pieces for a Young Pianist (1963)
D: 11'
Pub: Doblinger
01 345
Five Sketches for Oboe (1964) [Monologue 2]
D: 7'
Pub:
Doblinger 05 201
Divertimento for Bassoon (1964) [Monologue 3]
D: 8'
Pub:
Doblinger 05 501
Capriccio for Flute (1965) [Monologue 4]
D: 9'
Pub: Doblinger
05 002
Variants tor Alto or Tenor Saxophone (and Percussion) 1965 [Monologue
5]
D: 7'
Pub: Doblinger 05 453
Symphony I for Strings (1965)
D: 21'
Pub: Doblinger StP 198,
Leihmaterial
Considerations for Contrabass (1967) [Monologue 6]
D: 7'
Pub:
Doblinger 03 911
Nine Uncritical Pieces for Piano (1968)
D: 20'
Pub: Doblinger
01 541
FP: 1971 (Wien)
Symphony II (Concertante) for Wind Quintet and Strings (1968)
D:
22'
Pub: Doblinger Leihmaterial
Excursions for Viola (1969) [Monologue 7]
D: 10'
Pub:
Doblinger 03 502
Trio for Flute, Bass Clarinet (or Bassoon) and Piano (1969)
D: 15'
Pub: Doblinger 07 309
FP: 24 November 1969 (Wien)
Spring and Three Flowers for Soprano and Orchestra (1969)
Movements: 1. Spring Song, 2. The Lily, 3. The Sick Rose, 4. Ah, Sunflower
T: William Blake
D: 14'
Three Madrigals for 6-Part Chorus a cappella (1969)
Movements: 1.
Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba, 2. A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at
Midnight, 3. Nightpiece
T: James Joyce
Projections for Wind Quintet (1970)
D: 16'
Pub: Doblinger 06
442, StP 305
FP: 1982 (Graz)
Synopsis of a Symphony (1970)
D: 16'
Pub: Doblinger StP 338,
Leihmaterial
FP: 21 January 1972 (Wien)
Five Songs for Tenor and Piano (1971)
Movements: 1. Music, When
Soft Voices Die, 2. Sharing Eve's Apple, 3. Song, 4. Ozymandias, 5. Wine, Women
and Snuff
T: John Keats (2, 3, 5), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1, 4)
D: 11'
FP: 1971 (Wien)
Companion Pieces to a Wind Quintet (1973)
D: 16'
Pub:
Doblinger 06 447, StP 348
Four Songs for Soprano and Piano (1973)
Movements: 1. The World's
Wanderers, 2. Tomorrow, 3. Stanza, 4. A Dirge
T: Percy Bysshe Shelley
D:
6'
Psalm 130 for 4-Part Mixed Chorus and Organ (1973)
D: 10'
Pub:
Doblinger 45 451
St. Louis Choruses for Trumpet (or Flügelhorn) (1975) [Monologue 8]
D: 6'
Pub: Doblinger 05 712
Reflections for Violin (1975) [Monologue 9]
D: 8'
Pub:
Doblinger 03 035
Outgrowths of a Wind Quintet (1976)
D: 17'
Three Latin Lyrics for Six-Part Chorus a cappella (1976)
Movements: 1. Sylva Myrtea, 2. O Blandos Oculos, 3. Qualis nox
T:
Ausonius (1), Beauvais Ms. (2), Petronius Arbiter (3)
D: 13'
Pub:
Doblinger 44 150
Phrases for Horn (1977) [Monologue 10]
D: 8'
Pub: Doblinger 05
619
Flöte und Fagott (1977) [Workpoint 1]
D: 9'
Pub: Doblinger 06
304
Oboe und Klarinette (1977) [Workpoint 2]
D: 8'
Pub: Doblinger
06 305
Flöte und Horn (1977)
D: 7'
Pub: Doblinger 06 306
Gyrations for Guitar (1978) [Monologue 11]
D: 7'
Pub:
Doblinger 05 926
Aria for Musical Saw (1978)
D: 4'
Flöte und Oboe (1978/1984/1994) [Workpoint 4]
D: 7'
Pub:
Doblinger 06 37 (2 Vl: 03 116)
Klarinette und Horn (1978) [Workpoint 5]
D: 8'
Pub: Doblinger
06 308
A Keats Songbook. Nine Songs for Tenor and Guitar (1978)
Movements: 1. The Devon Maid, 2. In a Drear-Nighted December, 3. Sweet is
the Greeting of Eyes, 4. Daisy's Song, 5. Think Not of It, Sweet One, 6. Dawlish
Fair, 7. You Say You Love, 8. On Death, 9. Hither, Hither, Love
D: 27'
Nine Haikus for Baritone and Clarinet (1978)
T: C. H. Hartzell
D: 8'
Pub: Doblinger
Elegy for English Horn (1979) [Monologue 10]
D: 6'
Pub:
Doblinger 05 280
Oboe und Fagott (1979) [Workpoint 6]
D: 8'
Doblinger 06 309
String Quartet (1979)
D: 19'
Pub: Edition Contemp Art
FP:
June 1992 (Wien)
Three American Folksongs for Medium Voice and Piano (1979)
`Movements: 1. Poor Wayfaring Stranger, 2. Sweet Betsy from Pike, 3. Black
is the Color of my True Love's Hair
Grounds for John Donne. Seven Songs for Tenor and Harp (1979)
Movements: 1. Sweetest Love, 2. Woman's Constancy, 3. The Message, 4. A
Fever, 5. The Apparition, 6. Go and Catch a Falling Star, 7. The Triple Fool
D: 27
FP: 1980 (Wien)
Configurations for Bass Clarinet (1980) [Monologue 13]
D: 7'
Pub: Doblinger 05 400
Approximations for Cello (1980) [Monologue 14]
D: 8'
Pb:
Doblinger 03 720
Horn und Fagott (1980) [Workpoint 7]
D: 8'
Pub: Doblinger 06
310
Klarinette und Fagott (1980) [Workpoint 8]
D: 8'
Pub:
Doblinger 06 311
Sinfoniettina for (13) Strings (1980)
D: 14'
Pub: Doblinger
Leihmaterial
FP: 15 February 1981 (Wien)
Twelve Poems by Jehane Markham for Mezzo Soprano, Viola and Piano
(1980)
Movements: 1. When You Have Found the Place, 2. In the Afternoon
Beside Me, 3. Stone White Lids, 4. Gently, Gently, 5. Clip, 6. Love Hangs on Me,
7. Saturday 4, 8. Do Not Look Bitterly, 9. Nightmare I, 10. Nightmare II, 11.
This Winter, 12. Confusion in the House
D: 20'
FP: 1981 (Wien)
Air and Variations for Harp (1981) [Monologue 15]
D: 9'
Pub:
Doblinger 05 848
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1981)
D: 18'
Pub: Doblinger 05
377
FP: 13 February 1985 (Wien)
Sonata for Horn and Piano (1981)
D: 16'
Pub: Doblinger 05 657
Five American Folksongs (1981)
Movements: 1. Three Little Pigs, 2.
My Little Mohee, 3. My Horses Ain't Hungry, 4. I Wonder as I Wander, 5. Whistle,
Daughter, Whistle
Four Latin Lyrics for Tenor and Orchestra (1981)
Movements: 1.
Alba (10th Century Ms.), 2. Te vigilans oculis (Ms. of Beauvais, 9th Century),
3. Pulchra comis (Ms. of St. Rémy at Rheims, 9th Century), 4 De ramis cadunt
folia (13th Century Ms.)
D: 20'
Pub: Doblinger Leihmaterial
FP: 23
July 1982 (Graz)
Sophistications for Trombone (1982) [Monologue 16]
D: 7'
Pub:
Doblinger 06 314
Oboe und Horn (1982) [Workpoint 9]
D: 7'
Pub: Doblinger 06 314
Flöte und Klarinette (1982) [Workpoint 10]
D: 7'
Pub:
Doblinger o6 318
Episodes for Violin and Piano (1982)
D: 10'
Pub: Doblinger 03
266
FP: 1986 (New York)
Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano (1982)
D: 16'
Pub:
Doblinger Part/St 07 321
FP: 1983 (Wiener Neustadt)
Five Songs for Baritone and Piano (1982)
Movements: 1. Unai Otome,
2. Okutamagawa, 3. Tatami, 4. Tree, 5. The Dancing of Leaves
T: John G.
Mills
D: 9'
Autumnals. Four Pieces for 4-Part Mixed Chorus and Harp (1982)
Movements: 1. October Song, 2. Autumn Fall Guy, 3. Obit for Autumn, 4. Credo
T: C. H. Hartzell
Barbershopera. Opera collage for Barbershop Quartet (1982)
D: 8'
FP: 1983 (Wien)
Toying for Tuba (1983) [Monologue 17]
D: 6'
FP: Doblinger 05
783
Toccata and Passacaglia for Organ (1983)
D: 10'
FP: 1985
(Wien)
Duo for Cello and Harp (1983)
D: 9'
Pub: Lyra
FP: 1985
(Toledo, Ohio)
Sonata for Soprano Saxophone and Piano (1983)
D: 15'
Pub:
Doblinger
Psalm 3 for 4-Part Mixed Chorus a cappella (1983)
Pub:
Lawson-Gould
FP: May 1984 (Amherst, Massachusetts)
Psalm 13 for 4-Part Mixed Chorus a cappella (1983)
Pub:
Lawson-Gould
Psalm 23 for 4-Part Mixed Chorus a cappella (1983)
Pub:
Lawson-Gould
Time Pieces. Five Songs for Soprano, Clarinet and Piano (1984)
Movements: 1. Legend, 2. Autumn Song, 3. As I Walked Out One Evening, 4.
Domesday Song, 5. If I Could Teil You
T: Wystan Hugh Auden
D: 24'
FP: 1984 (Wien)
Encore Piece from Episodes for Violin and Piano (1985)
D:
2'
Pub: Doblinger
Two German Duets for Soprano, Baritone and Piano (1985)
Movements:
1. Eile der Liebe, 2. Wie er (sie) wolle geküsset sein
T: Martin Opitz (1),
Paul Fleming (2)
D: 5'
FP: 1985 (Wien)
Concerto quasi una Fantasia for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra (1986)
D: 18'
Fourteen American Folksongs (1986)
Movements: Five for her (1.
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies, 2. Careless Love, 3. When I was Single
(Woman's Complaint), 4. Dink's Song, 5. The Texan Boys). Five for him (1. Down
in the Valley, 2. Old Smokey, 3. When I was a Single Man's Complaint, 4. The
Sporting Bachelors, 5. When You Go A-Courting). Four Spirituals (1. Amazing
Grace, 2. Wondrous Love, 3. Lonesome Valley, 4. O Freedom)
Combinations for (Viennese) Horn (1987) [Monologue 18]
D: 6'
Pub: Doblinger 05 625
Constellations for Saxophone Quartet (1987)
D: 13'
Pub: Klaus
Kovariks Musikothek
FP: 1988 (Linz)
Duo for Violin and Bass Clarinet (1988)
D: 10'
Pub: Klaus
Kovariks Musikothek
Variation Allsorts for Double Bass and Piano (1988)
D: 9'
Pub:
Doblinger 03 939
FP: May 1988 (Wien)
Bagatelles for Flute, Bass Clarinet and Piano (1988)
D: 8'
Pub: Edition Contemp Art 70 119
Divertimentino for Saxophone Quartet (1988)
D: 9'
Pub: Edition
Contemp Art 2030
FP: 1989 (Wien)
Sonata for Cello and Piano (1989)
D: 18'
Variations for Chamber Orchestra (1989)
D: 14'
Pub: Doblinger
Leihmaterial
FP: 6 November 1989 (Linz)
Short Takes I for Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Cello and Piano
(1990)
D: 11'
Pub: Edition Contemp Art 70 120
FP: May 1994 (Wien)
Short Takes II for Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano (1990)
D:
7'
Pub: Edition Contemp Art 70 121
FP: 1991 (Tokyo)
C, D, F, E and Other Notes for (13) Strings (1990)
D: 1990
D:
10'
Pub: Edition Contemp Art 6018
FP: 1991 (Wien)
On D for Two Flutes (1991)
D: 8'
Pub: Doblinger 05 029
FP:
April 1992 (Berkeley, California)
Zwei Gedichte von Andreas Gryphius for Soprano, Violin, Viola, Cello
(1991)
D: 10'
Pub: Edition Contemp Art
FP: 1991 (Los Angeles)
Ein Mädchen, ein junger Mann, ein Autobusbahnhof. Opernsketch (1991)
T: Eugene Hartzell
D: 7'30
Instr: soprano, tenor, clarinet, horn,
violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano
FP: June 1992 (Wien)
Duo for Violin and Clarinet (1992)
D: 10'
Pub: Doblinger
Sonata for Oboe and Piano (1992)
D: 14'
Pub: Doblinger
Largo for String Quartet (1992/1993)
D: 9'30
Pub: Klaus
Kovariks Musikothek
FP: November 1992 (Odessa)
Lyrics for Violin (1993) [Monologue 19]
D: 8'
Pub: Doblinger
Clarinet Quintet (1993)
D: 22'
Pub: Edition Contemp Art
FP: May 1994 (Wien)
Nightpiece for Orchestra (1993)
D: 12'
Pub: Doblinger
Leihmaterial
FP: 27 February 1994 (Mankato, Minnesota)
Changes for Clarinet (1994) [Monologue 20]
D: 9'
Pub:
Doblinger
Concerto for Double Bass and Strings (1994)
D: 21'
Pub:
Doblinger
FP: November 1995 (Prague)
String Trio (1995)
D: 16'
FP: October 1995 (Kiev)
Horn Trio (1995)
D: 11'
Pub: Edition Contemp Art
Instr:
violin, horn, piano
FP: February 1996 (Milan)
Sechs Lieder für Baßbariton und Klavier (1995)
Movements: 1. Der
Abend, 2. Sonnenuntergang, 3. Abendständchen, 4. Zur Nacht, 5. Nachtgeräusche,
6. Das trunkene Lied
T: Joseph von Eichendorff (1), Friedrich Hölderlin (2),
Clemens von Brentano (3), Theodor Storm (4), Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (5),
Friedrich Nietzsche (6.)
D: 15'
Flute Quintet (1996)
D: 22'
Instr: flute, string quartet
FP: April 1997 (Odessa)
Vocalise for Double Bass (1996) [Monologue 21]
D: 6'
Pub:
Doblinger
Recordings
Preiser Records LP 120849
Eugene Hartzell Vol. 2. Klaus Kovariks Musikothek CD 3098-2 (Österreichische Komponisten der Gegenwart)
Bibliography
Biba, Otto and Eugene Hartzell (eds.). Johannes Brahms. Mit den Gedanken in Wien [Briefe]. Wien: Doblinger, 1984.