Alfred Peschek

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Alfred Peschek (born May 14, 1929 in Linz ; † February 4, 2015 there ) was an Austrian composer and musician .

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In the last year of the war, Peschek was drafted into the Volkssturm at the age of 15 , suffered a leg injury and was briefly captured by the Americans .

From 1946 he could continue piano lessons , received cello and theory lessons and wrote his first compositions. Because disruption of school attendance by several months of hospitalization he graduated in 1951 Matura and studied in Vienna church music at the Vienna Academy of Music and Art History at the University . He received his doctorate in 1957 with a dissertation on the masses by Franz Tuma . During his studies he was a member of the Academy Chamber Choir and Academy Church Choir, played organ concerts and performed as a percussion substitute with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra . Between 1957 and 1968 he wrote music reviews for daily newspapers and specialist magazines and worked for ORF .

During his work as a scientific consultant at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz , he carried out the first Bruckner Festival in 1961 (the forerunner of today's Bruckner Festival) in Linz and in nearby St. Florian . From 1962 he worked as a freelancer and was in contact with international avant-garde artists such as Bruno Maderna , Günter Kahowez and Francesco Valdambrini and finally founded the Neue Ensemble in 1968 , a very important ensemble for new music for Upper Austria (collaboration with Eela Craig ) as well as its own music publisher, where the Edition Neue Reihe also includes works by Walter Pach , Richard Kittler , Erich Urbanner and Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter have appeared.

In 2010, Pescheks Musikverlag was merged into the Brucknerhaus Linz Verlag, founded by LIVA, which was incorporated into Upper Austria in 2013. Musikverlag was renamed. On the one hand, the publisher sees itself as a sponsor of Alfred Peschek's work, but also endeavors to attract new composers.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Peschek was regarded as the enfant terrible of the Upper Austrian and especially Linz music scene and was particularly popular with his entertaining way of presenting pieces of music.

In his compositions he spoke of pantonal music. The own ensemble, the in-house mountain theater, offered many opportunities for development, especially in connection with music and dance. He is considered one of the great composers in Upper Austria. The works of the Linz avant-garde composer have been performed around the world and have received several awards.

Works

Until 1964 Peschek used the pseudonym Michael Bertrand. During this time he published piano pieces, vocal works, chamber music pieces, orchestral music and hits. Some of the first works published under his name were published by World Library Publications. All the rest in the publishing house he founded himself. Peschek is also the author of articles in various regional specialist and local history publications.

Others

In 1988 he was the founding chairman of the international society for new music ( IGNM ) branch section Upper Austria and vice-president of the artists' association MAERZ .

Peschek was married to the dancer Erika Gangl , with whose Erika Gangl dance company he worked in the 1970s. Erika Gangl died in 2000.

Awards

literature

media

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Peschek died at the age of 86 in: Musikmagazin from February 5, 2015, website of www.musicaustria.at, accessed on November 7, 2015
  2. Upper Austria. Musikverlag Linz queried on November 7, 2015
  3. ^ Curriculum vitae of Alfred Peschek in: Festival of New Music Bruckner University Linz: ensemble xx. century under Peter Burwik, music magazine from November 9, 2010, website from www.musicaustria.at, accessed on November 7, 2015
  4. Alfred Peschek is dead in: Radio Oberösterreich from February 4, 2015, queried on November 7, 2015
  5. ^ Avant-garde composer Alfred Peschek died in: Der Standard from February 4, 2015, queried on November 7, 2015
  6. Systematic catalog of works in: Alfred Peschek's website ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.peschek.at
  7. Awarding of awards by the city of Linz, in: Web presence of the city of Linz ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2015 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. queried on November 7, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.linz.at
  8. ^ Upper Austrian state correspondence: Governor Pühringer on the death of Alfred Peschek: One of the most famous contemporary composers in our country , in: Upper Austria. Country correspondence from February 5, 2015 requested on November 7, 2015