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He served many years as a professor at Oberlin Conservatory of Music.Table of ContentsEarly life[edit]Musical style[edit]Teaching career[edit]Achievements[edit]Personal life[edit]Compositions[edit]Writings[edit]References[edit]Further reading[edit]Early life[edit]Hoffmann was born in Vienna, Austria,[2] the son of Richard and Emanuela Hoffmann. In 1935, the family emigrated to New Zealand,[3] where Hoffmann subsequently received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of New Zealand in 1945.[4][3]Hoffmann went on to the USA in 1947, primarily to study composition with his cousin, Arnold Schoenberg (1948\u20131951). At the same time he also became Schoenberg’s secretary and amanuensis.[3][5][6][7]Musical style[edit]About the String Trio, which was begun in 1961 (Altm\u00fcnster, Austria) and, after approximately a year’s interruption, completed in 1963 (Los Angeles, California) the composer wrote:The piece is in a single movement (approximately 15 minutes). The kaleidoscopic treatment of the musical substance in detail (fragmentation, juxtaposition, rotation); the confluence of a number of coequal contrasting sections (elision, dovetailing); the interaction of disparate elements; rhythmic dissonance; conflicting dynamics (even with sustained sonorities); the notation of each instrument on three staves (upper: sul ponticello or sul tasto, the middle: arco, the lower: pizzicato or col legno), and localized accelerandi and ritardandi \u2013 all are designed to create the maximum possible illusion of multidimensional movement and to emulate in sound the inherently unstable characteristics of a mobile. This is done without recourse to the arbitrariness and forced spontaneity of improvisation, but rather, within the paradoxical framework of rigid control and matrix-like construction.[7]Teaching career[edit]Hoffmann began his career as a professor at Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1954, where he worked until 2004. He was a visiting professor at the University of California in Berkeley from 1965 to 1966,[3] at Victoria University in 1968, at Harvard University in 1970, at the University of Iowa in 1976 and at Vienna University in 1984.[1]Achievements[edit]Hoffmann received awards from the Fromm Music Foundation Commission in 1960 (Orchestral Piece No. 2, 1961, Universal Edition, London (1963), UE13635LW) and National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1966. Also he was given a grant from National Education Association in 1976, 1978\u20131979 and Fulbright Foundation in 1984\u20131985.[1]Personal life[edit]On December 21, 1957, Hoffmann married Joan Alfhild Flint. They have 3 children. Hoffman died in Oberlin, Ohio, on June 24, 2021, aged 96.[1]Compositions[edit]OrchestralPrelude and Double Fugue, strings, 1944Violin Concerto, 1948Orchestral Piece, 1952Piano Concerto, 1953\u201354 \u2013 Mobart Music Publications\/SchottCello Concerto, 1956\u201359 \u2013 Mobart Music Publications MOB 8540\/SchottOrchestral Piece [No. 2], 1961, publ. Universal Edition, London (1963), UE13635LWMusic for Strings, for solo violin and string orchestra, 1970\u201371 \u2013 Mobart Music Publications\/SchottSouffleur, for symphony orchestra without conductor, 1975\u201376Vocal3 Songs (R. M. Rilke), 19483 Songs (Rilke, Jakob Haringer\u00a0[de]), soprano, piano, 19502 Songs (M. Maeterlink, E. St Vincent Millay), soprano, piano, 1953\u201354Mutterauge (trad.), chorus, 1956Memento mori (grave stone inscriptions), men’s 48 voices, tape, 1966\u201369Les adieux (R. Hoffmann), chorus, orchestra, 1980\u2013832 Poems (A. Giraud), 1 voice, flute + piccolo, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, 1986Lacrymosa ’91 (H. Heine), chorus, orchestra, 19902 Songs (F. R\u00fcckert, Heine), soprano, string trio, percussion, 1990 [arr. chamber orchestra, 1991]Die Heimkehr (G. Trakl), 1 voice, double chorus, orchestra, 1997Chamber and soloString Quartet No. 1, 1947Trio, violin, bass clarinet, piano, 1948Duo, viola and cello, 1949 \u2013 Mobart Music Publications MOB 8550\/SchottDuo, violin and piano, 1949, rev. 1965 \u2013 Mobart Music Publications\/SchottPiano Quartet, 1950String Quartet No. 2, 1950Tripartita, solo violin, 1950String Trio, 1961\u201363Decadanse, for clarinet, bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, double bass, and percussion, 1972 \u2013 Mobart Music Publications\/SchottString Quartet No. 3 ‘on revient toujours’, 1972\u201374 \u2013 Mobart Music Publications\/SchottChanges, for two sets of chimes, four players, 1974 \u2013 Mobart Music Publications\/SchottNotturno [String Quartet No. 5], double string quartet, 1995String Quartet No. 6 ‘Anbruch\u2013Einbruch\u2013Abbruch’, 1999KeyboardPiano Sonata, 1945\u2013463 Small Pieces, piano, 1947Fantasy and Fugue in Memoriam Arnold Schoenberg, organ, 1951 \u2013 Mobart Music Publications\/SchottVariations No. 1, piano, 1951Sonatina, piano, 1952Passacaglia, organ, 1953 – Mobart Music Publications\/SchottVariations No. 2, piano, 1959 \u2013 Mobart Music Publications MOB 8585\/SchottMONO\/POLY, piano, 1994 (first performance Pasadena, 13 September 1994, by Leonard SteinElectroacousticIn memoriam patris, tape, 1976String Quartet No. 4 ‘(scordatura \u2013 trompe l’oreille)’, string quartet, computer, 1977\u201378Writings[edit]Hoffmann, Richard, “Webern: Six Pieces, op. 6, 1909”, Perspectives of New Music 6 (1967\u201368)Schoenberg, Arnold, Von heute auf morgen, Op. 32, edited by Richard Hoffmann, with Werner Bittinger. Mainz: B. Schott’s S\u00f6hne; Wien: Universal Edition, 1970.References[edit]^ a b c d “Richard Hoffmann, Composer and Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Arnold Schoenberg, Dies at 96” by Erich Burnett, Oberlin College & Conservatory, July 15, 2021^ Reinhard Kapp, “Hoffmann, Richard”, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., vol. 11, 596\u2013597^ a b c d R\u00f6der, Werner and Strauss, Herbert A., International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigr\u00e9s 1933\u20131945. Volume II: The Arts, Sciences and Literature, Part 1: A\u2013K, p. 528^ See letter from Arnold Schoenberg, 20 July 1949, in Feisst, Sabine, Schoenberg’s Correspondence with American Composers, Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2018, p. 768^ Riggs, Robert, Leon Kirchner: Composer, Performer, and Teacher, University of Rochester Press: 2010, p. 94^ Platt, Russell, “Wrestling with the Twelve-Tone Technique of Schoenberg”, The New Yorker, May 4, 2017^ a b Sleeve note to LP CRI 240[full citation needed]Further reading[edit]Feisst, Sabine, Schoenberg’s New World: The American Years, Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2011, p. 332 n.10Markus Grassl and Reinhard Kapp, Die Lehre von der musikalischen Auff\u00fchrung in der Wiener Schule (Wiener Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte, vol. 3), B\u00f6hlau Wien, 2002, 685\u2013686Alec Leshy, “OCME honors Richard Hoffman”, The Oberlin Review, vol. 128, no. 12, December 10, 1999Waleson, Heidi, “Making it New”, Oberlin Conservatory Magazine, 2009\u201310Woodard, Josef, “Music Review: Stein in Triumphant Reading of Schoenberg in Pasadena”, Los Angeles Times, September 16, 1994 (review of premiere of MONO\/POLY)"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki10\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki10\/richard-hoffmann-composer-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Richard Hoffmann (composer) – Wikipedia"}}]}]