 This special commitment for Joseph Marx, who has represented the tonal music of Austria as an influential composer, teacher and critic, underscores Cerha's renown as an undogmatic artist who supports every kind of significant musical rediscovery regardless of its reference to tonality or modernism.Cerha is still active as a composer of orchestral works and stage music (among others, "Baal", "Der Rattenfänger", and "Der Riese vom Steinfeld", the latter commissioned by the Vienna State Opera, with a libretto by Peter Turrini).Premiere performances of some of his recent works took place in January 2006 (e.g.