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Conrad Beck
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Conrad Beck (16 June 1901, Lohn, Schaffhausen – 31 October 1989, Basel) was a Swiss composer. Beck was the son of a pastor. His stay in Paris between 1924 and 1933 proved crucial to his artistic development, where he studied with Jacques Ibert and also made contact with Arthur Honegger, Nadia Boulanger, and Albert Roussel. Returning to Basel in 1933, he headed the music department of Radio Basel for the next thirty years. He helped mediate cultural exchange through his many contacts with Swiss and international musicians. At the suggestion of Swiss conductor Paul Sacher, who promoted his career more than any other composer, Beck settled in Basel in 1934. During a period of over 50 years, Sacher commissioned his works and conducted their premieres with the Basel Chamber Orchestra and the Collegium Musicum Zürich. From 1939 to 1966 Beck worked as music director of Swiss Radio in Basel, a position that enabled him to do a great deal to promote contemporary music. On the occasion of Paul Sacher's 70th birthday, Beck was asked, together with 11 composer-friends (Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Benjamin Britten, Henri Dutilleux, Wolfgang Fortner, Alberto Ginastera, Cristobal Halffter, Hans Werner Henze, Heinz Holliger, Klaus Huber and Witold Lutosławski), by Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich to write composition for cello which used the notes creating Sacher's name: eS, A, C, H, E, Re (E♭, A, C, B, E, D). Beck created a three-movement work entitled Für Paul Sacher, Drei Epigra
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Für Paul Sacher - Drei Epigramme für Violoncello Solo (1975): 1. Moderato
202Für Paul Sacher - Drei Epigramme für Violoncello Solo (1975): 3. Vivo
183Für Paul Sacher - Drei Epigramme für Violoncello Solo (1975): 2. Tranquillo
174Klavierstücke I: No. 4. Lento
1252 Tanzstücke: No. 1. Boston
1162 Tanzstücke (Abridged Version): No. 1, Boston
1172 Tanzstücke: No. 2. Foxtrot
1082 Tanzstücke: No. 2, Foxtrot
109Piano Sonatina No. 1: I. Allegro molto vivace
910Piano Sonatina No. 1: II. Lento
9albums
Beck: Complete Music for Solo Piano
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12 Hommages à Paul Sacher pour Violoncelle
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12 Hommages a Paul Sacher pour Violoncello (disc 1)
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Beck: Abendlied
Und die Neue Musik
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Ginastera, Boulez, Britten: 12 Hommages à Paul Sacher pour Violoncelle
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Complete Music for Solo Piano
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Wirkung der Neuen Wiener Schule im Lied
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12 Hommages A Paul Sacher Pour Violoncelle CD 1
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12 Hommages a Paul Sacher pour violoncelle
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12 Hommages a Paul Sacher pour Violoncello (Patick Demenga, Thomas Demenga) (CD 1)
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Le Saxophone Français [Disc 3]