Anton Voigt

Anton Voigt (born January 10, 1947 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian pianist , piano teacher and music educator .

education

After his first music lessons from his father (violin), Anton Voigt received musical training in the subjects of piano, organ, composition, conducting and school music at the Innsbruck Conservatory. The meeting with the American pianist Margot Pinter, with whom he was married from 1974 until her death in 1982, was formative. Private lessons in Paris with Yvonne Lefebure, Alfred Cortot's former assistant , and masterclasses with Yvonne Lefebure and Wilhelm Kempff served as preparation for a career as a pianist. Musicological studies in Salzburg and Vienna , especially with Gernot Gruber and Walter Pass , complemented his musical thinking.

Concert activity

After his first appearances as a violin and piano student in lecture evenings at the Innsbruck Conservatory and an activity as a church and concert organist from the age of 14, Anton Voigt made his debut as a pianist as part of the Innsbruck Youth Culture Week in 1968 with a performance of the Ludus tonalis by Paul Hindemith , which he liked Brokered a scholarship for the Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music . In the years that followed, the pianist remained loyal to new music in his concert career with debuts in Vienna (Brahms Hall ) , London ( Wigmore Hall ) and Warsaw (all 1974). This was followed by appearances at the Carinthian Summer , the Klangbogen Wien , the Cardiff Music Festival, the Oxford Wellesz Centenary Festival and the Manchester Piano Festival. Live recordings and studio productions are available from ORF , BBC Cardiff, VRT Brussels , SRG Zurich and Lausanne. As a soloist Voigt has worked with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and the Baroque Orchestra L'arpa festante Munich , among others . A repertoire focus was and is the music of the Second Viennese School (first performance of the inherited Webern piano pieces in several European countries) and the surrounding area (all piano compositions by Egon Wellesz on two evenings, Hans Erich Apostel , Hanns Eisler ). Based on musicological studies of Mozart , Anton Voigt dealt with historical performance practice and its application on the historical and modern piano from the mid-1980s.

Teaching

From 1976 until his retirement in 2009, Anton Voigt was professor for piano at the Bruckner Conservatory of Upper Austria, which later became the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. In addition, from 1979 to 1991 he initiated and held the introductory course on 20th century music as well as the internship on New Music, from which the Klangspur Linz emerged. After completing his habilitation, he was appointed university professor for piano in 2004.

Anton Voigt was and is consulted by domestic and foreign institutions as a reviewer and juror (habilitation committees, reviewers in appointment procedures, national and international piano competitions). Since 2009 he has been a lecturer in the Postgraduate Master's Program in Music Management at Danube University Krems ; since autumn 2015 he has been teaching at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg as part of the pre-college.

University management

As a member of the Presidium, Voigt participated in the accreditation of the Bruckner Conservatory to the Anton Bruckner Private University . From 1997 to 2006 he was dean of artistic studies, 2006/07 acting rector.

Music mediation

Already during his studies Voigt advocated giving contemporary music more space in concerts and lessons. After leaving as choir director of the State Memorial Church of St. Paul in Innsbruck (1969–1973), he initiated the foundation of the Ecumenical Choir Community, which still exists today. Between 1980 and 1984 he designed and moderated around 100 programs for the Austrian radio, Ö1 , especially on new music. He was concert curator of the series for example in the Brucknerhaus Linz and initiated (1999) or leads the series Sunday music in the salon in the Upper Austrian State Museum , in which Upper Austrian talents can be heard alongside internationally active artists. As a musicological advisor, Voigt worked in 1991 at the Mozart exhibition at the Upper Austrian State Museum in Linz on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the composer's death. In 2009 he curated the newly created Beethoven room in the castle museum of Upper Austria. State Museum , which is dedicated to the composer's work in Linz and in which a fortepiano by the Erard brothers from 1803 from Beethoven's possession is presented as a special feature . The European Piano Teachers Association Austria was Anton Voigt 2006-2015 as president before. During this time he was responsible for the annual congresses (e.g. “Between Disability and Giftedness.” Mozarteum and Musikum Salzburg, 2010; “What do you actually mean? Aspects of communication between students, teachers, works and composers.” Art University Graz, 2015).

Scholarships and honors (selection)

2015: Honorary President of EPTA Austria
2010: Silver Medal of the Republic of Austria
1994: Upper Austrian regional culture award for initiative cultural work
1974: Scholarship from the Hindemith Foundation (Frankfurt / Blonay)

Publications (selection)

notations 1985-2015. Texts on piano didactics, work history and interpretation. According to with Karin Wagner on behalf of the European Piano Teachers Association Austria . Universal Edition, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-7024-7371-6 .
Stay a while! You are so pretty! Reflections on the beautiful in music. In: Myth of Beauty. Facets of the beautiful in nature, art and society. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern / Linz 2015, ISBN 978-3-7757-3984-9 , pp. 219-226.
Competitions: Opportunity or Lion's Den? In: Piano Journal. The European Journal for Pianists and Piano Teachers. Vol. 33, No. 103 2014, pp. 23-25.
From the beginning. In: All Beginning is ... Ed. By European Piano Teachers Association , Section of the Federal Republic of Germany. Staccato-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-932976-62-9 , pp. 94-101.
Paul Hindemith: Ludus tonalis or Ludi leonum. In: Departure into the modern age. Edited by the European Piano Teachers Association , Section of the Federal Republic of Germany. Staccato-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-932976-51-3 , pp. 57-64.
What Does "Motion in Music" Stand For? In: Piano Journal. The European Journal for Pianists and Piano Teachers. Vol. 32, No. 100 2013, p. 11-15.
“If you are only determined to be grieved, you can only cry.” The Neapolitan sixth chord in piano music of the 18th and 19th centuries. In: To be at home in the sound system. Edited by the European Piano Teachers Association, Section of the Federal Republic of Germany. Staccato-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-932976-43-8 , pp. 113-120.
"Your speech, however, is: yes, yes, no, no." Art and conscience in times of threat. In: Sounds of Power. National Socialist Music Policy in Upper Austria. Linz 2010, ISBN 978-3-901479-61-8 , pp. 97-104.
Not judges, but helpers. The pianist Margot Pinter as Cultural Officer of the American military administration. On the “denazification of music”. In: “The Führer’s Capital of Culture”. Art and National Socialism in Linz and Upper Austria. A project of the Upper Austrian regional museums in cooperation with "LINZ 2009 European Capital of Culture". ISBN 978-3-85252-967-7 , pp. 261-268.
Not a 'court' and yet significant. Linz as a secondary station in Mozart's life. In: Mozart. Experiment Enlightenment in Vienna at the end of the 18th century. Volume of essays on the Mozart exhibition. Hatje Cantz, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-7757-1689-5 , pp. 551-558.
"Contra E". Notes on an unused tone in Beethoven's piano sonata op. 109. In: Querstand I. Contributions to art and culture. ConBrio, Linz 2005, ISBN 3-932581-73-3 , pp. 177-186.
"If only the grown-ups would not have so many prejudices ..." Children's Pieces by Anton Webern. In: Piano Journal. The European Journal for Pianists and Piano Teachers. Vol. 25, No. 78, winter 2005, p. 11-17.
- German version as: The music of a madman? Thoughts on the interpretation of Webern's piano music using the example of the “children's piece”. In: practicing & making music. Journal for instrumental education and musical learning. Issue 5, October / November 2007, pp. 34–37.
"Air from another planet". Schönberg's Three Piano Pieces op. 11. In: EPTA Austria. Documentation 1998–2001, pp. 117–125. Reprinted in: notations 1985–2015. Texts on piano didactics, work history and interpretation. According to with Karin Wagner on behalf of the European Piano Teachers Association Austria . Universal Edition, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-7024-7371-6 , pp. 305-319.
- 'Air from another planet' (Stefan George). Arnold Schoenberg's Three Piano Pieces Op. 11 (1909). In: Piano Professional. the magazine For The Teaching Pianist. Autumn 2016, Issue 42, pp. 10-15.
Transcription Comes of Age. When Bach-Busoni became Schoenberg-Busoni. In: Piano Journal. The European Journal for Pianists and Piano Teachers. Vol. 24, No. 70 Spring 2003, Issue 70, pp. 14-17.
Mozart in Linz and music and theater in Linz at the time of Mozart's Mozart in Linz. In: Mozart in Linz. Catalog for the exhibition in the Schlossmuseum Linz, 1991, ISBN 3-900746-38-9 , pp. 11–16 and 25–38.
Biographies of a contemporary: Franz Xaver Glöggl on both Mozart and Franz Xaver Süßmayr. In: Mozart's world of sound. Catalog for the exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, 1991, pp. 149–157.
Mozart's “Forte piano pedale”. In: Annual report of the Bruckner Conservatory Linz, 1988/89.
Head on the tip of the knife. Poems by René Char - set to music by Pierre Boulez. In: Reading Circle. Literature magazine N. 34, 5th year, 1988.
Concerning concert practice with Scriabin's works from the perspective of the interpreter (pianist). Together with Margot Pinter. In: Otto Kolleritsch (Ed.): Alexander Skrjabin. Graz 1980 (= Studies on Valuation Research , Volume 13), pp. 155–161.

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SURNAME	Voigt, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian pianist, piano teacher and music educator
DATE OF BIRTH	January 10, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	innsbruck