Milan Horvat

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Milan Horvat (born July 28, 1919 in Pakrac , state of the Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (now Croatia ); † January 1, 2014 in Innsbruck ) was a Croatian or Yugoslavian - Austrian conductor and conducting teacher. He was one of the most important conductors in his country and was a supporter of contemporary music . From 1969 to 1975 he was chief conductor of the ORF symphony orchestra in Vienna. He has received honorary conductors from the Zagreb Philharmonic and the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne .

Life

After graduating from high school, Horvat studied law (doctorate) at the University of Zagreb as well as piano with Melita Lorković and Svetislav Stančić , conducting with Milan Sachs and Fritz Zaun and composition with Zlatko Grgošević at the Zagreb Academy of Music (1939–1946). In addition, he learned a. a. with Igor Markevitch .

He then began his professional career as a pianist and choir director, so in 1945 he became director of the radio choir. From 1946 to 1953 and from 1958 to 1969 he was chief conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra in Agram (Zagreb); In 1985 he became an honorary conductor for life. In 1953 he took over the post of chief conductor of the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, Ireland. During this time he played works by Irish composers such as Bodley , Duff , Kelly , Larchet and Potter with the orchestra . From 1958 to 1965 he was chief conductor at the Zagreb Opera House . He has been responsible for several premieres, mainly of Yugoslav music ( Bjelinski , Devčić , Kelemen , Malec , Wellesz and others) and has been a guest conductor in Europe and the USA. He was also responsible for the Yugoslav premiere of Britten's War Requiem . In 1965 he became music director of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival .

From 1969 to 1975 Horvat was chief conductor of the newly founded ORF Symphony Orchestra in Vienna, which initially focused on new music. With that he gave the first concert at Funkhaus Wien . At the Wiener Musikverein he performed with the ORF Symphony Orchestra, the Tonkünstler Orchestra Niederösterreich and the Wiener Symphoniker and was responsible for several world premieres ( Cerhas Spiegel IV, Pauer's concert for jazz and symphony orchestras, Berios Concerto) and Austrian ( Pendereckis Fluorescences and Kosmogonia , Hartmanns Gesangsszene, Yun Om mani padme hum , hood Stock-Ramatis Symphony K , Nonos Intolleranza suite , Gandini Fantaisie-Impromptu II, Coral Magnificat) and concert premières ( Burt The Golem ). He has made repeated guest appearances at the Salzburg Festival , for example in 1974 he premiered Penderecki's Magnificat .

From 1975 he was chief conductor of the Zagreb Radio Symphony Orchestra . At the Graz Music Protocol of the Styrian Autumn 1977 he premiered Detonis 54 Kraja with this orchestra . From 1997 to 2000 he was chief conductor of the Graz Symphony Orchestra . Horvat was honorary conductor of the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne and from 1981 a permanent guest conductor and honorary member of the Slovenian Philharmonic in Ljubljana. He worked with famous soloists such as Mstislav Rostropovich , David Oistrach , Yehudi Menuhin and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli .

His better-known recordings include Hindemith's Mathis der Maler Symphony and Shostakovich's symphonies .

In 1948 he received a professorship for conducting at the Zagreb Music Academy. From 1970 he held several master classes in Salzburg ( International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg ). From 1975 until his retirement in 1989 he directed a class for conducting training at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz . His students included u. a. Fabio Luisi , Günter Fruhmann , Fimčo Muratovski , Richard Hein , Michele Trenti , Miro Belamarić , Mladen Tarbuk and Gerhard Present .

Horvat was married to a ballerina and choreographer. Part of his estate is in the special collection of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Boisits: Horvat, Milan. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
  2. ↑ Milan Horvat ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Axel Klein: Irish Classical Recordings: A Discography of Irish Art Music . Greenwood Press, Westport et al. a. 2001, ISBN 0-313-31742-9 , pp. 13, 40, 96, 100, 139.
  4. ↑ History of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra , rso.orf.at, accessed on September 10, 2018.
  5. ^ The new Slovenian Philharmonic (1947) , filharmonija.si, accessed on September 14, 2018.
  6. ↑ Special collections , kug.ac.at, accessed on September 9, 2018.
  7. ↑ dobitnici nagrade Milka Trnina ( Memento from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Milan Horvat ,, Conductor and musician , info.hazu.hr, accessed on September 9, 2018.
  9. ↑ U 1999. godini za 1998. godinu , zagreb.hr, accessed on September 10, 2018.
  10. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  11. ↑ Milan Horvat ( Memento from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Horvat, Milan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian and Yugoslav-Austrian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Pakrac , state of the Slovenes, Croats and Serbs
DATE OF DEATH 1st of January 2014
Place of death innsbruck