Hugo Kauder

Hugo Kauder (9 June 188822 July 1972) was an Austrian-Jewish composer, music theorist, and teacher. He composed in a relatively traditional, Brahmsian contrapuntal–harmonic manner with substantial modal mixture. He did not embrace the atonality of some of his peers, to whom he was nonetheless charitable.

Kauder sought a synthesis of sound and word in his vocal music and was attentive to texts, praising the word painting of Schoenberg's Op. 15 Stefan George settings. He was close to Rudolph Pannwitz, who wrote aphorisms and was influenced by George and Friedrich Nietzsche.

His legacy of over 300 works, many yet to be published, is receiving renewed interest. A society (2002) and performance competition (2003) were recently founded in his name. Provided by Wikipedia