Anton Heiller

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Anton Heiller (born September 15, 1923 in Vienna - Dornbach ; † March 25, 1979 ibid) was an Austrian composer , organist and university professor.

Life

Anton Heiller received his first piano lessons from his father at an early age and was also taught harmony and counterpoint. In the 1930s he was trained on the organ by the organist of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna , Wilhelm Mück . From 1941 to 1942 he studied organ, piano, harpsichord and music theory at the Vienna University of Music and was called up for military service in 1942 after completing his studies.

After the end of the war he became a professor of church music at the Vienna University of Music in 1945, where he taught the subjects of organ, composition and, from 1969, church composition. In 1950 he took over the management of the "Collegium Musicum for contemporary music".

Heiller was a respected concert organist who devoted himself in particular to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach . From 1947 he went on several concert tours as an organist, harpsichordist and conductor , which took him to Switzerland and the Netherlands , where he won first prize in the 1952 improvisation competition in Haarlem .

In addition to his teaching activities at the Vienna University of Music, Heiller led numerous master classes and conducted summer courses. His students include leading organists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Martin Lücker , Michael Radulescu , Peter Planyavsky , Roman Summereder , Ekkehard Schneck and Ernst Triebel .

Heiller has been honored several times, including the State Prize for Music in 1954 and the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1969 . He also won several prizes at international organ competitions.

Heiller was married to the pianist Erna Heiller .

He died in Vienna in 1979 after suffering a first stroke in 1974 and his left hand was partially paralyzed.

Honorary grave of Anton and Erna Heiller

His honorary grave is in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, number 133).

Act

Anton Heiller created almost exclusively church works and compositions for organ in a richly polyphonic and chromatic style. His compositional work includes masses , requiem , psalms , choral works, motets , cantatas , oratorios and orchestral works. In his compositions he combines traditional Austrian music with elements of modernity, including the twelve-tone technique . Paul Hindemith had been a friend and mentor of Heiller since 1950, and he premiered Hindemith's Concerto for Organ and Orchestra in New York in 1963. Heiller is regarded as a leading figure in church music in Austria and southern Germany in the second half of the 20th century.

With his impetus to overcome the romantic organ building and to further develop it after the organ movement, Heiller made great contributions to Austrian organ building after the Second World War. Above all, the teaching organ with mechanical slide chests that he designed and initiated for the then Vienna Music Academy, built in 1958 by Johann Pirchner / Steinach am Brenner , set the tone for several generations of organists. The instrument is now in the parish church of Sandleiten in the 16th district of Vienna, Ottakring .

Works (selection)

  • 1938 - The trees bloom and smell - for mixed a cappella choir
  • 1938 - Christ factus est - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1940 - Sonata movement in D for organ
  • 1940 - Passacaglia in C for organ
  • 1941 - Toccata for piano
  • 1941 - Fantasy and fugue in F for organ
  • 1942 - Three songs based on poems by Anton Wildgans - for mezzo-soprano and piano
  • 1943 - Toccata Two pianos for four hands
  • 1944 - Ave Maria - for soprano, violin and viola
  • 1944 - Es ist ein Ros' sprung (small partita for organ)
  • 1944 - Mass in Mixolydian g - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1944 - Sonata for Organ
  • 1945 - Who God Loves - saying for voice and piano
  • 1945 - Das Marienkind - music for the legendary game of the same name
  • 1945 - Lux fulgebit nos - for four boys' voices
  • 1945 - The Savior has risen - Choral motets for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1946 Chamber Symphony
  • 1946 - Requiem - for three-part mixed choir a cappella
  • 1946 - Laetentur caeli - for four-part boys' choir
  • 1946 - Christ factus est - for three-part boys' choir
  • 1947 - Ave Maria - for soprano and piano or organ
  • 1947 - Resurrexi - for four-part mixed choir a cappella
  • 1947 - Unam petii a domino - for boys' choir a cappella
  • 1947 - Exsurge, Domine - for male choir a cappella
  • 1947 - Second sonata for organ
  • 1948 - Mass in Lydian f - for four-part mixed choir and organ
  • 1948 - Missa in nocte - for two-part upper choir and organ
  • 1949 - Prelude and Fugue in A major - for organ
  • 1949 - Dreifaltigkeitsproprium - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1949 - Oh how void, oh how fleeting - Choral motets for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1950 - Tragic story - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1951 - Nörgeln - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1951 - Hoc corpus - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1951 - O Jesus, all my life - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1951 - Missa brevis in C - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1951 - degree there - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1951–1953 - Three small sacred choirs - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1952 - Tentatio Jesu - short oratorio for solos, mixed choir and two pianos
  • 1953 - I love you from the bottom of my heart - for Oberchor a cappella
  • 1953 - Missa super "Preserve us, Lord, by your word" - for women's or boys' choir a cappella
  • 1953 - Te Deum for mixed choir and organ
  • 1955 - So we drive out the winter - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1955 - Psalm Cantata - for solos, mixed choir, organ and orchestra
  • 1956 - German Proprium for Trinity Sunday - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1956 - François Villon - radio ballad (oratorio) for solos, choir and orchestra
  • 1956 - Memorare - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1957 - Ave Maria - for three-part upper choir
  • 1957 - Missa super "Salve regina" et "Our Father in Heaven" - for three-part upper choir
  • 1957 - Four Austrian folk songs - for male choir a cappella
  • 1957 - Confirma hoc, Deus - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1958 - Regina martyrum - cantata for solos, four-part choir and organ
  • 1958 - Postludium super "Ite, missa est XI" (for organ)
  • 1958 - Four sacred motets - (Proprium in Anniversario Dedicationis ecclesiae) for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1959 - Domine Deus omnipotens - hymn for soprano and piano
  • 1959 - In festo corporis Christi (four pieces for the Feast of Corpus Christi)
  • 1960 - Praise, you servants of the Lord - Small motet for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1960 - Tantum ergo I over a twelve-tone model - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1960 - Tantum ergo II on the Gregorian melody - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1960 - Missa super modos duodecimales - for mixed choir and seven instruments
  • 1960 - O Rex gentium - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1961 - stages - for upper choir a cappella
  • 1961 - Pater noster, Ave Maria - for alto and piano
  • 1961 - Small mass about twelve-tone models - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1962 - Fiat voluntas tua - for alto and piano
  • 1963 - The 37th Psalm - for choir and orchestra
  • 1963 - concert for organ and orchestra
  • 1964 - Terribilis est - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1964 - Sub tuum praesidium - for alto and piano
  • 1964 - Proprium for the Feast of Corpus Christi - for three-part mixed choir a cappella
  • 1965 - German Ordinarium - for mixed choir and organ or orchestra
  • 1965 - English Mass - for mixed choir, congregation and organ
  • 1965 - Fantasia super “Salve Regina” (for organ)
  • 1965 - In principio erat verbum - cantata for tenor, mixed choir, orchestra and organ
  • 1966 - German Proprium for the fourth Sunday after Easter - for boys or women choir
  • 1967 - German Proprium for the Trinity Festival - for choir, congregation and organ
  • 1967 - Ecce lignum crucis - meditation for organ
  • 1968 - The leaves fall from the trees - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1968 - improvisation on the Gregorian chant “Ave maris stella”
  • 1968 - Stabat Mater for mixed choir and orchestra
  • 1970 - Sacred concert - for mixed choir and six woodwinds
  • 1970 - 100 years of the Wiener Musikverein - birthday gift in a series of 100 notes
  • 1971 - Advent music - for oboe, violin, children's choir and organ
  • 1971–1972 - Concerto for harpsichord, positive organ & chamber orchestra
  • 1972 - Now come the Heiden Heiland (variations for organ)
  • 1973 - Passion music - for children's choir and organ
  • 1974 - Three Christmas carols - for upper choir a cappella
  • 1974 - Meditation for organ on the Gregorian Easter sequence ("Victimae Paschali Laudes")
  • 1974 - I don't call you servants, but my friends - for mixed choir a cappella
  • 1975 - Out of deep need I scream to you - intonation, chorale and three variations for organ
  • 1975 - A little bit about BACH - Three little pieces for harpsichord
  • 1975 - Small German Mass - for upper choir and organ
  • 1976 - Jubilato (for organ)
  • 1977 - Hymn for choir and organ from Vespers for cantor, solos, choir and organ
  • 1977 - Prayer with its own Sanctus - for voice alone
  • 1977 - Magnificat from Vespers for cantor, solos, choir and organ
  • 1977 - Small partita on the Danish song: “Denklar sol går ned” (for organ, with appendix for flute solo)
  • 1977 - Prelude, interlude and epilogue from “Vespers” for cantor, choir and organ
  • 1977–1978 - Choral preludes to songs from the Danish Gasang Book
  • 1978 - Small Partita “Keep us, Lord, by your word”

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ outstanding artist award - music ( Memento from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed October 28, 2012
  2. ^ Peter Planyavsky : Anton Heiller - All registers of a life. Edition VA bENE, Vienna 2009. p. 325
personal data
SURNAME Heiller, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, organist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1979
Place of death Vienna