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1896Bornonthe26thAprilinLemberg(Galicia),nowLviv(Ukraine)
1907ThefamilymovestoVienna
19071910BoardingschoolinMrzzuschlag(A)andSt.Gallen(CH)
from1915OfficerontheRussianandItalianfronts
19191920CompositionstudieswithFranzSchrekerinVienna
1921DebutascomposeratthemusicfestivalinWinterthur(CH)
1922NachtmusikfrOrchesterfirstextantwork
1923PremireofDreiLiederzuGedichtenvonLaoTseattheSalzburgFestival
1925InfluencedbyArnoldSchnbergstwelvetonemusicwrites5BalladennachGedichtenvonElseLaskerSchler
1926BalletTragdietta
1929PremireoftheoperaMaschinistHopkinsonthe13thAprilinDuisburg(D)
1929Deathofhisfirstwife
19301933Productionofshortfilms(alllost)
1937MarriagetoAnnaBechert
19371939EmigrationtoPrague,contacttoAloisHba
1939EmigrationtoGenevaandthenRiodeJaneiro,AcquaintanceofHeitorVillaLobos
19401975NewYork
1944PremireoftheoperaTheGateattheMetropolitanOperaNewYork
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1950PremireofsymphonicpoemTheWonderfulOneHossShaybythePhiladelphiaOrchestraunderEugenOrmandy
from1959Occupationwithelectroacousticmusic
1959Notturnobrasiliero
1962DieAstronauten
1967FirstperformanceinAustriaofaworkbyMaxBrandsincethe2ndWorld(FnfBalladennachGedichtenvonElseLasker
Schler)underFriedrichCerha
1973PerformanceofpartsoftheoperaMaschinistHopkinsatthesteirischenherbstfestivalinGraz
1974ElectroniceposIlian
1975ReturntoAustria,LangenzersdorfnearVienna
1980Dieson5thApril
1989InaugurationofamemorialroomforMaxBrandattheHanakMuseuminLangenzersdorf,exhibitionofMaxBrands
recordingstudiowithoneofthefirstsynthesisers
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