Friedrich Wild Goose

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Friedrich Wildgans (born June 5, 1913 in Vienna , † November 7, 1965 in Mödling ) was an Austrian composer and clarinetist.

Life

Friedrich Wildgans was born in the family of the well-known poet and Burgtheater director Anton Wildgans (1881–1932). He first learned the violin and piano, later he learned the clarinet, which was to become his main instrument. From the age of twelve he received lessons in music theory and composition from Joseph Marx . From 1934 to 1935 he was a teacher at the Mozarteum in Salzburg . From 1936 to 1940 he worked as a solo clarinetist in the stage orchestra of the Vienna State Theater.

Wildgans supported the conservative resistance group Austrian Freedom Movement around Roman Karl Scholz , was therefore arrested by the Gestapo on October 25, 1940 and remained in custody until February 24, 1942. On December 7, 1943, he was sentenced by the People's Court to 15 months' imprisonment, which was counted as having served him. After his release from prison, he did not find any professional employment in the public service until the end of the war and temporarily looked for a job as an assistant accountant.

After the liberation of Vienna in April 1945, he worked as a teacher at the Austrian Academy of Music, which he had to leave again at the beginning of the 1946/47 academic year. It wasn't until 1955 that he got a permanent position here again. From 1946 to 1950 Wildgans, who had been a member of the KPÖ from April 1945 (until he left the Communist Party or was expelled in July 1950) , worked as a music advisor in the City of Vienna's cultural office under Viktor Matejka . Since its re-establishment in April 1945, he has been executive vice-president and from 1948 to 1961 president of the Austrian section of the International Society for New Music . He was music critic of the Austrian newspaper published by the Soviet occupation forces (1945–1948) and the intellectual journal Österreichisches Tagebuch (1946–1948) published by the KPÖ and wrote numerous articles for the Austrian music journal . He also wrote a book about Anton Webern , which only appeared posthumously. From September 21 to October 4, 1953, F. Wildgans was a juror at the Concourse international d'execution musicale Geneve. After 1954 he could no longer perform as an interpreter due to illness. From 1955 he taught again at the Vienna Music Academy , received the title of professor in 1957 and last worked there as a librarian.

Wildgans' work is influenced by Paul Hindemith , Igor Stravinsky and the group Les Six . He composed a musical work for clarinet, two concertos and chamber music works as well as a concerto for trumpet, string orchestra and percussion (op. 29, 1935), a sonata for piano (1929) and art songs. The premiere of his Eucharistic Hymns in the Vienna Konzerthaus provoked one of the last major Austrian concert scandals on June 14, 1954. The trigger for the outrage over this “popular cantata” was the combination of sacred texts with syncopated rhythms, which some felt was inappropriate.

Overview of the works

  • Symphonic works and chamber music
  • Clarinet concerts, piano works
  • Choral works and motets
  • Missa minima for soprano, clarinet, violin and violoncello, 1932/1954
  • The dictator , operetta (lost), 1933
  • The Tree of Knowledge , opera after Franz Theodor Csokor (unfinished), 1935
  • The Mystical Trumpeter , cantata for high voice, trumpet and piano after Walt Whitman , 1946
  • Film and stage music
  • The development of music in Austria in the 20th century , specialist publication, 1950
  • Anton Webern, A Study , Tübingen: Rainer Wunderlich Verlag 1967
  • Publication of four Beethoven works (3 duos clarinet / bassoon, trio oboes / cor anglais) in Doblinger's series “Diletto Musicale”.

literature

  • Leopold Brauneiss: Friedrich Wildgans. Life, work and work. Dissertation University of Vienna 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Mugrauer: Comrade Wildgans. The composer Friedrich Wildgans and the Austrian Communist Party, in: Mitteilungen der Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft , 20. Jg. (2013), No. 2, pp. 11-17. (PDF; 361 kB)
  2. ↑ Barbara Boisits: Wildgans, Friedrich. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
  3. ^ A b Leo Brauneiss: Biography in: Friedrich Wildgans. Works. Doblinger Verlag, Vienna 2002, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Wild goose, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1965
Place of death Mödling