Robert Wagner (conductor)

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Robert Wagner (born April 20, 1915 in Vienna ; † December 21, 2008 in Münster ) was an Austrian conductor and composer .

Life

From 1929 to 1937, Robert Wagner studied piano with Franz Schmidt , composition with Joseph Marx and conducting with Felix Weingartner at the Vienna Music Academy.He also studied musicology at the University of Vienna , which he completed with a doctorate in 1938 .

After performing publicly as a pianist and composer from 1933 , Wagner made his debut as a conductor in Vienna in 1936. From 1938 to 1944 he worked as a conductor at the Städtische Bühnen in Graz . On June 1, 1940, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 7.644.003). In 1945 Wagner went to the Salzburg State Theater as the chief musical director of the opera , and a year later he was appointed artistic director of the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra . In addition, from 1947 he headed the conducting class and opera school at the Mozarteum .

In 1951 he changed to succeed Heinz Dressel as general music director and conductor of the symphony orchestra in Münster . In addition, after the artistic director of the municipal theaters Bruno von Niessen could no longer carry out his work for health reasons , Wagner took over the interim management of this theater in 1957, together with Wilhelm Vernekohl, the city’s head of culture. In 1961 Wagner returned to Austria at his own request and followed Kurt Rapf as music director of the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck . In 1965 he followed a call to the Academy for Music and Performing Arts “Mozarteum” in Salzburg , where he held a full professorship and until 1971 the position of president. At the beginning of the 1970s , Robert Wagner took up the position of permanent conductor and general music director at the State Opera in Istanbul .

Robert Wagner, whose compositional work includes orchestral pieces , concerts , incidental music and chamber music , received the Golden Medal of Honor from the Mozarteum University in Salzburg on November 21, 1995.

Publications

  • The musical work of Franz Schmidt. A style criticism (with notes). Vienna 1938, ( dissertation )

Compositions (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 7509–7511.
  2. ↑ Schmidt entrusted Robert Wagner with completing the missing orchestration, about which he expressed himself in fairly detail in the text book for the premiere and also recorded the history of its creation from his point of view ( part 1 and part 2 ). Robert Wagner also wrote explanations for this UE text print on the occasion of the premiere, which he called "Analysis of the Work" ( German Resurrection , Universal Edition No. 11.206 Made in Germany), cf. Part 1 and Part 2

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2008
Place of death Muenster