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It highlights the evolution from early works like Sinfonia No. 1 and Concentrazione to later concertante and dramatic orchestral writing, emphasizing melodic breadth, orchestral power, and vivid coloristic imagination. Awards, performances, and collaborations across Europe and America further document his modernist stature.","An Unswerving Thinker, Virtuoso and Sonic Ecstatic  \nFor Róbert Wittinger, on his 65th birthday on April 10th 2010 by Gabor Halász  \nIf one thinks about orchestral music since the Second World War, then alongside some highly prominent names, that of Róbert Wittinger also inevitably comes to mind. His cycle of six symphonies – shortly to be expanded by a seventh – adds an extraordinarily multi-facetted and eminently important chapter to the recent history of the genre. In it, the imposing line of writing for large orchestra, and the expressively charge of someone like Gustav Mahler, finds a valid aesthetic continuation (though naturally with its own particular prerequisites and contents). This artist, born in Knittelfeld in Austria, raised in Budapest, and now living in Bensheim (Bergstrasse) is a born symphonist who will celebrate his 65th birthday on the 10th April. What predestined him to this is a grandly epic breath, melodic outpouring, the expressive force of his music, and above all his aural imagination, coupled with a Berliozian delight in symphonic splendour and an extravagant fascination with colour.  \n“Róbert Wittinger, or Love of the Symphony” – this story began very early on, with the Sinfonia No. 1, composed back in Budapest. This enormously imposing exemplar of the talent of a 16 to 18-years-old high school student had to wait 13 years for its premiere – in 1976 in Stuttgart. One reason for this was that, even at the outset, Wittinger’s way of composing was incompatible with the stylistic canon of Socialist Realism that still had unlimited domination in Hungary in the sixties. Despite this, he got through his studies in Budapest, with two highly esteemed and cosmopolitan composers-Zsolt Durkó and Rudolf Maros – to whom he is grateful for “priceless artistic stimuli”. Very important for his creative life was a period of study in Warsaw in 1964, and especially his contact with Witold Lutoslawski.  \nHis drive towards new horizons was assisted by another early orchestral work: Concentrazione op. 6, that came two years after the first symphony, in 1965. Wittinger sent the score to György Ligeti, who then immediately secured for him a DAAD-scholarship, and participation at the 1965 Darmstadt New Music Summer School. After that, he never went back to Hungary. After a period working at the Siemens Electronic Music Studio in Munich, Wittinger settled in Germany, and with the premieres of his first cello concerto Irreversibilitazioni at the Donaueschingen Festival, and Concentrazione in Hamburg, he soon began his ascent as one of the significant representatives of musical modernism.  \nWittinger’s artistic status and reputation are documented by, among other things, numerous awards: prizes from the Südwestfunk, the City of Stuttgart, the Budapest Bartók Competition, the Peter Cornelius badge of the City of Mainz, the Art Prize of the Rheinland-Pfalz region, and the Rome-based “Villa Massimo Prize“. His works were performed (and premiered)– and still are – in important musical centres in Europe and America, including all the German radio stations, Donaueschingen and Budapest, the Berliner Festwochen, the SchleswigHolstein Music Festival, the Paris Biennale, the Pompidou Centre and Carnegie Hall. The list of his performers reads like a Who’s Who of New Music: Michael Gielen, Bruno Maderna, Heinz Holliger, Peter Eötvös, and the Melos Quartet, to name just a few.  \nBut back to his early work. Ligeti’s reaction to the score of his unknown young colleague isnot hard to understand. Concentrazione is an artistic bullseye, a startlingly brilliant piece of modern music, already characterised by astonishing maturity and certainty in handling compositional materials, a piece in which (matching the title) the sonic events are compressed into the narrowest of spaces, speeding around in kaleidoscopic alternation.  \nIt’s the same with the Sinfonia No. 1 op. 1. 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