Josef Kofler ( Polish. Józef Koffler , November 28, 1896–1944) was a Polish avant-garde composer, musicologist and music teacher. Known for being the first Polish composer who used the technique of dodecaphony .
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| Birth name | polish Józef koffler |
| Date of Birth | October 28, 1896 |
| Place of Birth | Stryi , Austria-Hungary |
| Date of death | 1944 |
| Place of death | Korosno , Poland |
| A country |  Poland |
| Professions | composer , musicologist , music teacher |
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Biography
Josef Kofler was born on November 28, 1896 in Stryi , Austria-Hungary . In the period from 1914 to 1916, he studied in Lvov (Lvov), and from 1918 to 1924 Kofler studied music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . His teachers were Paul Griner ( him. Paul Graener ) and Felix Weingartner ( him. Felix Weingartner ). From 1928 to 1941, Kofler worked as a music teacher at the Lviv Conservatory. Among his students was, among other things, the Polish exile composer Roman Gaubenstock-Ramat ( Polish. Roman Haubenstock-Ramati ), who studied music from Josef Kofler in 1920–23.
During the German occupation, Kofler was captured with his wife and son and forcibly relocated to the Wieliczka ghetto in Poland. His further fate, including the date, place and circumstances of his death are unknown. At the beginning of 1944, he and his family were probably killed by one of the German Einsatzgruppen groups Krosno (in southern Poland), where he was hiding after the liquidation of the Velichka ghetto.
Most of Kofler's published records disappeared during World War II, when the composer died during the Holocaust . Only two works among his numerous compositions were published after the war. They were published by the Polish Music Publishing House ( Polish. Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne ). These include: String Trio (work 10) and Cantata Love (work 14). Some of his works were released on records.
List of Works
| The number of the work | Title | Original title | Year | Instruments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slave Song | Chanson slave | before 1918 | Piano | |
| one | Two Songs Zwei Liede r | Zwei lieder | 1917 | Vocals |
| 2 | Overture "Hanifa" | Uwertura "Hanifa" | lost | Orchestra |
| 3 | East Suite | Suita orientalna | lost | Orchestra |
| four | Idyll for chamber orchestra | Sielanka na orkiestrę kameralną | lost | Orchestra |
| five | String Quartet | Kwartet smyczkowy | lost | Chamber music |
| 6 | 40 Polish folk songs | 40 polskich pieśni ludowych | 1925 | Piano , Vocal |
| 7 | Ballet Music | Musique de ballet | 1926 | Piano |
| eight | Fictional sonata | Musique. Quasi una sonata | 1927 | Piano |
| 9 | 15 variations on 12 tones | 15 wariacyj szeregu 12 tonów | 1927 | Piano |
| ten | String trio | Trio smyczkowe | 1928 | Chamber music |
| eleven | I Symphony | I symfonia | 1930 | Orchestra |
| 12 | Sonatina | Sonatina | 1930 | Piano |
| 9a | 15 variations on 12 tones | 15 wariacyj szeregu 12 tonów | 1931 | Orchestra |
| 13 | Concerto for Piano | Koncert fortepianowy | 1932 | Orchestra |
| 14 | Cantata Love | Kantata Miłość (Die Liebe) | 1931 | Vocals |
| 15 | Opera ballet | Balet-oratorium Alles durch MOW | 1932 | Vocals |
| sixteen | Divertimento (Small Serenade) | Divertimento (Mała serenada) | 1931 , lost | Chamber music |
| 17 | II Symphony | II symfonia | 1933 | Orchestra |
| 18 | Capriccio | Capriccio | 1936 | Chamber music |
| nineteen | Sonata for Piano | Sonata fortepianowa | 1935 , lost | Piano |
| 20 | String Quartet | Kwartet smyczkowy | 1934 , lost | Chamber music |
| 21 | III Symphony | III symfonia | 1935 | Orchestra |
| 22 | Four poems | Quatre poèmes | 1935 | Chamber music |
| 23 | Variations on Johann Strauss Waltz | Variations sur une valse de Johann Strauss | 1935 | Piano |
| Processing Polish carols for mixed choir | opracowania kolęd polskich na chór mieszany | 1934 - 1936 | Vocals | |
| 24 | Polish Suite | Suita polska | 1936 | Orchestra |
| Small Suite by Anna Magdalene Bach | Mała suita wg Klavierbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach | Ave. 1937 , lost | Orchestra | |
| instrumental goldberg variations | instrumentacja wariacji goldbergowskich | 1938 | Orchestra | |
| Gendeliana | Händeliana | before 1940 , lost | Orchestra | |
| 25 | Joyful overture | Uwertura radosna | 1940 , lost | Orchestra |
| 26 | IV Symphony | Iv symfonia | 1940 | Orchestra |
| Four pieces for children | Czotyry dytiaczi piesy | before 1940 | Piano | |
| 27 | Ukrainian sketches | Ukrajinśki eskizy (Szkice ukraińskie) | before 1941 | Chamber music |
| Stage Drama Music | muzyka do sztuk scenicznych | lost | Orchestra |
Sources
- “Displaced Music” (“Odrzucona muzyka”), Editor Pfau, Saargebiet, 1998, vol. 18: Persecution and Re-discovery. Lecture-concert of the Maxim Brand, Alfred Goodman, Józef Koffler and Ursula Mamlok .
- Folga, Zygmunt. Józef Koffler's Twelve-Tone Serialism (Dodekafonia Józefa Kofflera). Muzyka 4 (1972): 65-83.
- Freiheiter, Jerzy. "Józef Koffler." Muzyka 7-8 (1936): 85-86.
- Gołąb, Maciej, “Creativity of Józef Koffler - Problems with style organization” (Das Schaff des Józef Kofflers) - Probleme einer Stilgestaltung. Verfemte Musik. Komponisten in den Diktaturen unseres Jahrhunderts. Ed. J. Braun, V. Karbusicky, HT Hoffmann. Frankfurt am Main, 1995, pp. 205-217.
- Gołąb, Maciej, "Twelve-Tone Serialism. Studies of the Theory and Composition of the First Half of the Twentieth Century ”(Dodekafonia. Studia nod teorią i kompozycją I polowy XX wieku). Bydgoszcz, 1987.
- Gołąb, Maciej. "Józef Koffler and the Viennese School" (Józef Koffler i Szkoła Wiedeńska). Muzyka 2 (1996): 3-16.
- Gołąb, Maciej. "Twelve-Tone serialism of Józef Koffler" (Zwolftontechnik bei Józef Koffler. Ein polnisher Beitrag zur Geschichte der Dodekaphonie in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts), Musik des Ostens. 10 (1986): 167-179.
- Gołąb, Maciej. Józef Koffler. Kraków: Musica Iagellonica, 1995. Maksymilian Kapelański, Marek Żebrowski and Linda Schubert, Los Angeles: Polish Music Center, 2004.
- Koffler, Józef Koffler. Score of "Love Cantata" for solo voice, clarinet, viola and violoncello Op. 14, publisher: PWM, Cat. no: 8719, 1995, language versions: Polish, German.
- Linstedt, Iwona. "Instrumentation and Form in Symphonies of Józef Koffler" (Instrumentacja a forma w symfoniach Józefa Kofflera). Muzyka 2 (1996): 75-130.
- Linstedt, Iwona. "Twelve-Tone serialism in the symphonies of Józef Koffler (Dodekafonia w symfoniach Jozefa Kofflera), Muzyka 2 (1996): 17-74.
- Mazepa, Leszek. "The Press of Lvov on Koffler's Compositions" (Relacje prasy lwowskiej o wykonaniach utworow Józefa Kofflera). Muzyka 2 (1996): 139-158.
- Mazepa, Leszek. "The Soviet Period of Life and the Works of Józef Koffler" (Okres radziecki w yciu i twórczości Józefa Kofflera). Muzyka 1 (1983): 67-100.
- Muzyka 2 (1996). Special 100-year's anniversary issue tributed to J. Koffler.
- Zduniak, Maria. “Music and Activity of Józef Koffler in the Interwar Period” (Twórczość i działalność Józefa Kofflera w okresie 20-lecia międzywojennego). Zeszyty naukowe Akademii Muzycznej we Wrocławiu (Wrocław, 1983): 37-59.