Felix Greissle

Felix Anton Greissle (born November 15, 1894 in Vienna , † April 26, 1982 in Manhasset , New York state ) was an Austrian conductor and music publisher . Arnold Schönberg's son-in-law later emigrated to the United States.

Life

Greissle received private piano lessons and after graduating from high school studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Alfred Roller . After military service and being a prisoner of war in Italy, he turned to music and from 1919 studied with Guido Adler and Egon Wellesz at the University of Vienna . In the same year he met Arnold Schönberg , whose pupil he became in 1920, and Alban Berg and Anton Webern also taught him . He took over administrative tasks in the association for private musical performances founded by Schönberg . In 1921 he married Schönberg's daughter Gertrude, from 1922 he worked for Universal Edition as a copyist, proofreader and editor. In this function he also arranged and re-instrumented works by Schönberg (including the Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16). From 1925 to 1937 he headed the cantatas association of the Vienna State Opera Choir , with which he had performed Schönberg's Friede auf Erden op.13 in 1924 .

In 1938 Felix Greissle emigrated with his family to the United States, where he was appointed editor for G. Schirmer , and from 1943 as Director of Serious Music Publications. In 1946, Greissle became chief editor at Edward B. Marks . Greissle also gave private music lessons, gave courses at Columbia University in the 1950s , at the New School for Social Research in the 1960s, and gave lectures at various American universities, such as the Schoenberg Institute at the University of Southern California .

Web links

• Claudia Maurer Zenck:  Felix Greissle in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM), as of August 1, 2017
• Obituary New York Times, April 28, 1982 (English)