Mario Aschauer

Mario Aschauer (born December 18, 1980 in Linz ) is an Austrian musicologist , harpsichordist and conductor .

Life

Mario Aschauer attended the Musikgymnasium Linz and at the same time began his studies in organ, piano, historical keyboard instruments and conducting in Linz and Salzburg . He passed the school leaving examination, received the diploma in conducting at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz at the age of 17 and gained his first experience as a conductor with the orchestra of the Linz Music High School, the Linzer Jeunesse Orchestra, the Innviertler Symphonie Orchester , the VOEST Choir Linz and the Virtuosi di Praga.

In 1998 he founded the “NovAntique Linz” ensemble, with which he specialized in the music of the late 18th century with historical instruments and outside the standard repertoire. The ensemble mainly played sacred, oratorical and symphonic works by Gassmann , Gossec , Lebrun , Kraus , Salieri and Wagenseil .

In 2001 he received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Association in Linz.

He studied musicology at the University of Vienna and completed his studies ( Mag. Phil. And Dr. phil.) In 2008 with distinction. His diploma thesis on “ Joseph Martin Kraus: Stella Coeli. Motet for solos, choir, orchestra and organ. Critical Edition ”he wrote in 2004 and his dissertation on“ German-language clavier textbooks in the 2nd half of the 18th century ”has been published as a manual for clavier schools (see publications ). For this dissertation he received a dissertation award. In 2011 he graduated from the “Harpsichord” concert course at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with distinction and the title “Mag. art. "from.

He began his work as a musicologist between 2004 and 2006 as a study assistant at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Vienna. From 2008 to July 2014, Aschauer was a research assistant for the New Schubert Edition at the Institute for Art and Music History Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences , and since 2012 as a member of the editorial team.

From 2012 to 2013 he lived in New Haven , where he was awarded a scholarship from the Max Kade Foundation at Yale University . After a short stay in Austria, Aschauer accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Musicology at the School of Music at Sam Houston State University in 2014 .

His research and publication activities focus on creative process research, mainly with Schubert, Bruckner and the piano performance practice in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Mario Aschauer maintains an extensive repertoire as a harpsichordist and fortepianist, specializing in the keyboard music of the Austrian Baroque. With the Calamus Consort, which won first prize at the International HIF Beaver Competition in 2009 for its interpretations of Austrian baroque music and of which he is a member, he has participated in several early music festivals, such as the Resonanzen Wien , the Bach Festival Leipzig or the Itinéraire Baroque Brantôme participated.

In addition to the “NovAntique Linz” ensemble, he has also worked with other early music ensembles, such as the Progetto Semiserio ensemble and the Harmony of Nations Baroque Orchestra. With this ensemble he performed for the first time all of the surviving movements from Schubert's opera fragment Adrast , which were broadcast on BBC Radio and awarded the “Pasticcio Prize” of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation.

His teaching activities have taken him to the University of Vienna, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and Yale University.

Mario Aschauer lives in Houston (Texas) .

Publications

• Manual Clavier-Schulen , Bärenreiter-Verlag Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3-7618-2212-8
• Adrast in: New Schubert Edition , Series II / 12, Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3-936187-37-3

Discography

As a musician

• “Un dolce affanno” with the Calamus Consort was published by Passacaille / Belgium with passages from Viennese court operas around 1700 played on chalumeau and baroque clarinet .
• Concerto for three pianos in F major , KV 242 (“Lodron”) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart included on “Piano Concertos No. 1-27; Concerts based on sonatas by Johann Christian Bach KV 107 No. 1-3; Rondos KV 382 & 386 "(11 CDs)

As a conductor

• Franz Schubert: Adrast D 137 (first recording) with the Harmony of Nations Baroque Orchestra
• Antonio Salieri : Requiem in C minor and Requiem fragment in C major with the NovAntique Linz ensemble
• Florian Leopold Gassmann : La Betulia liberata (cross-section) with the NovAntique Linz ensemble

Repertoire (excerpt)

harpsichord

• Johann Sebastian Bach : Overture in the French style, BWV 831
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto according to Italian taste in F major, BWV 971
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasy and Fugue BWV 903
• François Couperin : Various preludes non mesurées, suites and the tombeau
• Johann Jakob Froberger : Various toccatas and suites, meditation and tombeau
• Johann Joseph Fux : Ciaccona in D major
• JacobTV : “The Storm” for harpsichord and tape
• Heinz Kratochwil : Partita Nuova op. 74 (1971)
• Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville : Pieces de clavecin avec voix ou violon, op.5
• Georg Muffat : Various suites
• Jean-Philippe Rameau : Pièces de clavecin 1706/1741

Chamber music

• Johann Christian Bach : Sonata for two pianos op. 15/5
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach : Concerto for two pianos F. 10
• Ludwig van Beethoven : Piano Trio op. 11 in B flat major ("Gassenhauer-Trio")
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for horn and fortepiano in F major op.17
• Anne Louise de Jouy Brillon : Duets for harpsichord and fortepiano
• Franz Xaver Kleinheinz : Trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano op.13
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Sonata (based on the quintet) KV 581

Orchestra continuo and organ

• Johann Sebastian Bach: St. John Passion , St. Matthew Passion , Christmas Oratorio
• Johann Joseph Fux: Oratorium Germanicum
• Georg Friedrich Händel : Israel in Egypt ( HWV 54), Messiah (HWV 56)
• Gustav Mahler / Arnold Schönberg : Songs of a traveling journeyman
• Gustav Mahler: 8th Symphony in E flat major
• Claudio Monteverdi : Marienvesper SV 206 ("Vespro della Beata Maria Vergine")

Conducted works

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach : The resurrection and ascension of Jesus
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in A major BWV 234, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen BWV 51, Now come, the Gentile Savior, BWV 61 , Come, you sweet hour of death BWV 161, Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV 1067
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Mass in C major op.86 , Symphony No. 5 in C minor op.67 , Piano Concerto No. 1, C major, op.15
• Anton Bruckner : Mass No. 1 in D minor WAB 26, Te Deum in C major WAB 45 , all major motets
• Gabriel Fauré : Requiem op.48
• Georg Friedrich Händel: Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno HWV 46a
• Georg Friedrich Händel / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Messiah KV 572
• Joseph Martin Kraus : The Death of Jesus, oratorio ( Bertil van Boer - directory (VB) 17)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Grabmusik (Passion) KV 42 , Symphony in D major KV 297 (“Parisian”) , Symphony in G minor KV 550, Sinfonia concertante in E flat major KV 297b
• Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgski / Maurice Ravel : Tableaux d'une exposition
• Franz Schubert: Mass No. 2 in G major D 167, Deutsche Messe D 872, The Devil as Hydraulicus D 4
• Georg Christoph Wagenseil : Stabat mater

Web links

• Mario Aschauer's website accessed on July 22, 2014
• Mario Aschauer on the website of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, accessed on July 22, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of scholarship holders on the RWV Linz website, accessed on July 22, 2014
2. ↑ Directory of diploma theses (2004) of the Institute for Musicology at the University of Vienna ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 21, 2014 
3. ↑ Directory of dissertations (2008) of the Institute for Musicology at the University of Vienna, accessed on July 21, 2014
4. ↑ Dissertation prizes of the Institute for Musicology and the Association of Friends of the Institute for the academic years 2008/09 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 21, 2014 
5. ^ New Schubert edition, accessed on July 21, 2014
6. ↑ Biography on the website of Mario Aschauer ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 21, 2014 
7. ↑ Employee directory of the university accessed on August 1, 2014
8. ↑ Aschauer as musical director on the ensemble's website, accessed on July 21, 2014
9. ↑ Website of the orchestra (English) accessed on July 31, 2014
10. ^ "Franz Schubert: Adrast D 137" on the website of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 21, 2014
11. ↑ Product description ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on July 31, 2014