Ensemble Die Reihe

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The Ensemble "die reihe" was formed in 1958 by Friedrich Cerha and Kurt Schwertsik with the aim of creating a permanent forum for New Music within the traditional musical life of Vienna. With the International Society for New Music, the Austrian JEUNESSE Musicale and the Wiener Konzerthaus, the first concert was able to go ahead in its Schubert Saal in March 1959. This was received as a sensational success by the enlightened sections of the Press which hailed it a 'serial dream'. Public acclaim was so great that "die reihe" was able to relocate to the larger Mozart Saal in 1959/60 and was there granted its own cycle by the Concert House management. With the inauguration of the Museum of the 20th Century, the Ensemble also played there; later - during an interregnum at the Wiener Konzerthaus - it also appeared at the ORF and the Wiener Musikverein. In 1978 „die reihe" was reinstated in its former home by the General Secretary, Hans Landesmann. A cycle called "Journeys to our own Time" conceived in collaboration with F. Cerha which ran until 1983, was so successful that the Mozart Saal could not contain all those interested and individual concerts had to be held for schools. This cycle symbolised quite clearly what had lain at the heart of the ensemble's direction since its formation: a desire to bring together a combination of the essential chamber works of the modern pioneers (Schoenberg, Berg, Hindemith, etc.) with all the significant works of the younger generation (Boulez

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