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Austrian Composer HK Gruber Releases Eclectic New Album

2/20/2026

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Austrian composer HK Gruber, 83, releases an album available on streaming platforms featuring his piano concerto and selections from Tales from the Vienna Woods.
The 25-minute piano concerto, premiered by Emanuel Ax, opens with anxious melodies.
It then shifts to a bluesy tone.
The opera-based suite, based on Ödön von Horváth’s satire, blends waltzes and foxtrots.
The album ends with Polka Infernale and Luftschlösser, a quirky piano cycle.

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Story summary

Austrian composer HK Gruber, 83, releases an album available on streaming platforms featuring his piano concerto and selections from Tales from the Vienna Woods.
The 25-minute piano concerto, premiered by Emanuel Ax, opens with anxious melodies.
It then shifts to a bluesy tone.
The opera-based suite, based on Ödön von Horváth’s satire, blends waltzes and foxtrots.
The album ends with Polka Infernale and Luftschlösser, a quirky piano cycle.