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3 unusual facts about Rudolph Reti


Rudolph Reti

He was the older brother of the great chess master Richard Réti (but, unlike his brother, he did not write his surname with an acute accent on the 'e').

At the end of the first International Festival of Modern Music in Salzburg, in 1922, his 'Six Songs' were performed alongside Schoenberg's Second Quartet; three years later, at the 3rd ISCM Festival in Prague, his Concertino for Piano and Orchestra shared a programme with Martinu's 'Half-Time' and Vaughan Williams's 'A Pastoral Symphony'.

Reti's method has been criticized by music theorist Nicholas Cook, who regards as Reti as having been over-concerned with proving the validity of his method, at the expense of producing convincing analyses of individual works.


Wordless functional analysis

Keller's investigations into 'the unity of contrasts' were influenced by the analytic writings of Schoenberg and Rudolph Reti, both of whom he acknowledged.


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