Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

as a suitable medium for reflecting the world as he experienced and understood it – as an agonizingly dramatic battle as contradiction and conflict – in order to be able to achieve self-realization in its dialectic and to portray himself as a man among men a man of this world and not out of this world. He was accorded numerous honours after the war including the Musikpreis of the city of Munich in March 1949. 1
Friede Anno '48 (1936–37) for soprano solo mixed chorus and piano; revised 1955 as Lamento for soprano and piano
Gesangsszene (1962–63) for baritone and orchestra on a text from Sodom and Gomorrah by Jean Giraudoux


Chamber and instrumental
2 Kleine Suites for piano (c.

Karl Amadeus Hartmann (2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963) was a German composer. Some have lauded him as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century although he is now largely overlooked particularly in English-speaking countries.