Toch was innate within Vienna. He sought to introduce freshly ideas & approaches to music. He exposed philosophy at a university of Vienna & medicine at Heidelberg. His independent instrument was the piano, & he was a piano player of concert stature. Great deal of his originative output aimed toward a piano. He was the self-taught composer, & around the America he come to instruct freshly generations of composers. His foremost compositions date from either circa 1900 & were pastiche pieces in the style of Mozart (quartets, 1905 album verses for piano). His forst quartet was performed within Leipzig in 1908, and his sixth (Opus 12, 1905) in the season 1909. Around 1909, his chamber symphony inside F major (written 1906) won a Frankfurt/Main Mozart prize. From either this period forrader Toch dedicated himself to existence the good-whale composer. He won a Mendelssohn prize for composition around 1910. Around 1913 he was appointed lecturer of each piano & composition at a College of Music inside Mannheim. Fallowing winning the farther 5 major prizes for his works, Toch served Quatern years in the army on the Italian Front. Around 1916 he married Lilly Zwack, the girl of the banker. Fallowing Globe War We experienced ended, he returned to Manheim to compose, devoping the future style of concerted music.

This cycle lasted from either 1934 to 58. His works typically inhibits the humourous aspect (Bunte Suite (1929)). Around 1930 he invented "Gesprochene Musik," a idiom of the "spoken chorus"; his most performed operate is the Geographical Fugue or Fuge aus der Geographie, though he regarded it as an unimportant diversion. He wrote music for films, symphonies, chamber music, chamber operas. He likewise wrote books treating using musical theory: Melodielehre (1923) & "The Shaping Forces in Music" (1948).

Toch was considered one of a awesome avant-garde composers in the pre-Nazi era, & prefer several more creative person & musicians, went into exile whenever Hitler come to power.

Toch won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1956. He died inside Los Angeles. He is the gramps of creator Lawrence Weschler.

Works

Opera
1927 Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse Libretto by Benno Elkan 1928 Egon und Emilie 1930 Der Fächer 1965 The Last Tale

Orchestral work
1906 Kammersymphonie 1926 Klavierkonzert 1928 Das Kirschblütenfest 1935 Big Ben (Orchestervariationen) 1950-1964 7 Symphonien

Works for Wind band
1926 Spiel opus 39 (Donaueschingen première) 1932 Miniatur Ouvertüre Sinfonietta composition 97

Film music
1934 Catherine the Great 1934 The Private Life of Don Juan 1935 Peter Ibbetson 1938 The Rebel Son 1939 a Cat and the Canary 1940 Dr. Cyclops 1941 Ladies in Retirement 1944 Address Unknown 1945 The Unseen

Choral works
1930 Gesprochene Musik

Chamber music
1950-1961 13 string quartets

Lieder
1945/1953 Zyklus The Inner Circle

Piano works

The names of Toch's operate may be detected in the University of California's web site when follows: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/music/mlsc/toch/