Otto Siegl

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Otto Siegl (born October 6, 1896 in Graz , Styria , † November 9, 1978 in Vienna ) was an Austrian musician and composer .

Life

Siegl was born in Graz in 1896 to a musical family. His father, a man with a "pleasant baritone voice ", died young (1900), but his mother, a trained pianist , began taking music lessons at home with her children. Siegl, when he was a boy, arranged pieces for his brother, mother and himself to play. After serving in the First World War, where he spent his time in the barracks and studied Bach's " The Art of Fugue ", he completed his studies in 1920 with a degree in conducting, violin playing and composition with Egon Kornauth . He worked as an orchestral violinist in Vienna and as a choirmaster for various choirs in Styria and wrote music to which the critics reacted positively and described him as modern without losing poetry.

Siegl was Kapellmeister at the Graz Opera from 1922 . From 1933 to 1948 Siegl was a professor at the Musikhochschule Cologne and from 1948 to 1967 at the Musikhochschule Vienna for the subjects of theory and conducting. Several times in his life he moved to Vienna, but suffered from homesickness and depression when he was far from his "green Styria". He played and wrote chamber music , often playing the viola role "like other composers and conductors", and called it not 'chamber music' but 'house music'. He wrote: " House music was once the joy and pride of music lovers, today the radio takes care of; you can turn it on and off without doing anything yourself. That means you can even do any job better if it is accompanied by radio music, which, however, must not be 'too heavy'. So music gradually becomes something secondary in the ears of the recorder, a background noise, a bit tickling the senses, pleasantly invigorating, or unpleasantly exciting, but not shaking, liberating from everyday life . "

Siegl created orchestral works, chamber music, cantatas, piano works, organ works, choral works and songs.

He is buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (40–59).

Works (selected)

Otto Siegl's grave

Otto Siegl created a total of 154 works with opus numbers and numerous other works without opus numbers.

  • op.140 Symphony "Omar Chaijam" for baritone and orchestra, 1946
  • 2 Streichtrios , op.44 and Op.130 in B-dur
  • 2 sonatas for viola and piano, op. 41 and op.103 in E flat major.
  • 5 string quartets , second string quartet in one movement op.35
  • The Way of the Cross, for string sextet (1943)
  • Concerto for violoncello and orchestra (1965)

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Siegl - Vienna History Wiki. Accessed January 21, 2020 .
  2. ^ Suppan, Wolfgang: Otto Siegl. a study .
  3. ^ Suppan, Wolfgang: Otto Siegl. a study . S. 60-61 .
personal data
SURNAME Siegl, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1978
Place of death Vienna