My latest piece, Moonglow for string quartet, composed in 2013.

Description of the music:
Night. The moon's shining. He is surrounded by light clouds and glows through them in an eerie atmosphere. Very calm.
- The moon is now clearly visible. - He disappears again behind the clouds. - Tempo di Valse. - "Wir genießen die Himmlischen Freuden". - Tempo primo.

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The title Moonglow itself is also based on a song from 1933 with music by Will Hudson and Irving Mills and words by Eddie DeLange with the same title.

The music of the song has as much as nothing to do with the music of this piece. The most important aspect was to compose in a very late romantic, 2nd Viennese School style, specifically speaking of Schönbergs "Verklärte Nacht", also with the reference to the Moon as a symbol. As the text of Verklärte Nacht by Richard Demel:

Zwei Menschen gehn durch kahlen, kalten Hain;
der Mond läuft mit, sie schaun hinein.
Der Mond läuft über hohe Eichen,
kein Wölkchen trübt das Himmelslicht,
in das die schwarzen Zacken reichen.

(also the very famous Moon in Schönbergs Pierrot Lunaire of course)
Apart from that there is a quite hidden 12-tone row composed in many parts and frequently used.
Also the reference to Mahler and to his poem used in the 4th movement of his 4th Symphony is just one of many associations I put in this music on purpose.
Apart from the intended images, there also was an unplanned similarity of Mahlers music and my 12tone row (as heard in the tempo di Valse), which turned out to be very helpful.
I don't want my compositions to be too abstract and not understandable, without making it too easy to listen to it. I hope I have reached my own high expectations and people can enjoy this music while I hope they find new things in it.
A famous saying in the 20th century was: "What goes into the ears quickly, leaves very soon. What goes into the ears slowly, comes never out again."

Recorded in June 2014
Violin I - Matyas Andras
Violin II - Marie Pospichalova
Viola - Nebojsa Bekcic
Violoncello - Thomas Auner

Moonglow for String quartet

A short excerpt of Maurice Gendron's fingerbreaking arrangment of Manuel DeFalla's Danse espagnole No. 1, part of my latest album "Aufforderung zum Tanz" - Invitation to the dance, with a collection of Dances from all the centuries, from Bach to Piazolla.
The CD can be purchased under the link: https://www.gramola.at/de/shop/produkte/kammermusik/gramola/thomas+auner,irina+auner/piazzolla,de+falla,dvorak,brahms,ravel,bach/131403/

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Manuel DeFalla Danse espagnole Nr. 1 (Arr. Gendron)

Another excerpt of my latest CD:

My own arrangement of Carl Maria von Weber's Invitation to Dance Op. 65, originally for Piano solo, orchestrated by Hector Berlioz with a Cello solo in the beginning. This was the reason I thought about arranging the whole work for the even more fitting setting of two instruments, the Cello being the Gentleman, the piano serving as the Lady to whom the Man kindly offers a dance. The artistically magnificent orchestrated version by Berlioz handles the two voices throughout the piece very well and I tried to follow that idea in every possible way.
The CD can be purchased under the Link:
https://www.gramola.at/de/shop/produkte/kammermusik/gramola/thomas+auner,irina+auner/piazzolla,de+falla,dvorak,brahms,ravel,bach/131403/

Or on Amazon, or if you intend to buy your own personal signed copy, please don't hesitate to write me a message on my website: www.thomas-auner.com/Kontakt.php


Aufforderung zum Tanz - Carl Maria von Weber

Live-Recording of Beethoven's A major Sonate with Barbara Moser on the piano, recorded at a concert in November 2016, Altes Rathaus, Vienna.

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live from a concert in January 2017

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