Schulho ’s style

Jazz: One of the first European composers to be influenced by jazz, Schulhoff used dance forms like ragtime, tango, shimmy and foxtrot in piano pieces including Fünf Pittoresken, Partita für Klavier and

5 Études de Jazz. Jazz also features in his Suite for Chamber Orchestra, the Concerto for Piano and Small Orchestra, and Second Symphony. Dada: Schulhoff’s friend, the painter George Grosz, was part of the post-wwi movement to reject the bourgeois art of the past (see Kurt Schwitters’ Dada poster, above). ‘The divine spark may be present in a liver sausage or a contrabassoon,’ Schulhoff wrote in the preface to his Bass Nightingale (1922). Neo-classicism: Like Stravinsky and Martinu˚ , Schulhoff adopted a neobaroque style for tuneful yet spiky and dissonant pieces like his Bachinspired Concerto for String Quartet, Double Concerto for Flute and Piano and Second Symphony. Flamboyance: Schulhoff wrote chamber pieces for eccentric combinations (Concertino for flute/ piccolo, viola and double bass), the jazzy Hot Sonata for saxophone and piano, and the Sonata Erotica.