Bernhard Paumgartner

Memorial plaque on Paumgartner's birthplace

Bernhard Paumgartner (born November 14, 1887 in Vienna , † July 27, 1971 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian conductor , composer and musicologist, educator, founding member and president of the Salzburg Festival .

Life

Bernhard Paumgartner was the son of the composer and music writer Hans Paumgartner and the well-known singer Rosa Papier . He studied in Vienna , among others, Bruno Walter , and at the local university , where he graduated in 1911 in Law.

Together with Felix Petyrek , Paumgartner worked during the war years at the Music History Center at the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry . From 1914 to 1917 he directed the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra and in 1917 became director of the Salzburg Mozarteum . There he played a key role in founding the festival and led, among other things, serenade concerts.

Bernhard Paumgartner's grave in the Petersfriedhof in Salzburg

As a composer, Bernhard Paumgartner wrote operas , cantatas , songs and choirs . His songs and instrumental chamber music are still played occasionally today. As editor he published Das Taghorn , a collection of works by minstrels , in 1922 . He gave the violin school of Leopold Mozart and works by Monteverdi , Locatelli new challenges and other masters of the 17th and 18th centuries.

He became known as an author through his biographies on Mozart and Bach . His autobiographical memories also attracted attention .

After the annexation of Austria , Paumgartner was relieved of his position as director of the Mozarteum by the National Socialists . Paumgartner spent the war years in Florence as part of a research assignment from the University of Vienna. From 1952 Paumgartner was the founder and director of the Camerata Academica of the Mozarteum Salzburg . In 1953 he co-founded the Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen . In 1955 he was the musical director of the Mozart film Don Juan - opera film (directed by Walter Kolm-Veltée ) with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and with a great ballet. From 1960 to 1971 he was President of the Board of Directors of the Salzburg Festival.

With the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Camerata Academica Salzburg , Paumgartner also made a few recordings, mostly with works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn . He also worked with famous soloists such as Arthur Grumiaux and Clara Haskil .

Paumgartner's remains rest in a grave of honor in St. Peter's Cemetery in Salzburg.

Works

• with Alfred Rottauscher: The Taghorn. Poems and melodies of the Bavarian-Austrian minstrel. A new edition of the ancient ways for artistic rendering in our time. With accompanying piano accompaniment, book decorations based on contemporary works. In three volumes . Stephenson, Vienna 1922.
• Mozart. With music and handwriting samples and illustrations . (Biography.) Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1927.
• Franz Schubert . (1st edition.) Atlantis-Verlag, Zurich 1943.
• Johann Sebastian Bach. Life and work . Volume 1 (not published anymore). Atlantis-Verlag, Zurich 1950.
• The instrumental ensemble. From antiquity to the present . Atlantis-Verlag, Zurich 1966.

Documents

Bernhard Paumgartner's estate is in the archive of the Research Institute for Salzburg Music History at the Department of Art, Music and Dance Studies at the University of Salzburg . Some of the post-war professional correspondence is in the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Some letters from 1929–1947 are also in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher CFPeters in the Leipzig State Archives .

Awards

• the title of a councilor
• Honorary doctorate at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Salzburg, November 14, 1967
• Mozart Medal from the Mozart Community Vienna (1960)
• Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1962)
• Honorary Citizen of the City of Salzburg (1963)
• Ring of the State of Salzburg (1963)
• Large Merit (1966)
• Order of Saint Gregory (1969)
• Designation of the traffic area Bernhard-Paumgartner-Weg in the Mirabell Gardens, Salzburg

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Paumgartner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Bernhard Paumgartner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Bernhard Paumgartner  in the German Digital Library
• Entry on Bernhard Paumgartner in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Bernhard Paumgartner's works at Universal Edition (accessed July 10, 2013)
• Extensive further information about Bernhard Paumgartner (accessed on July 10, 2013)
• "Bernhard Paumgartner and Today" Gerhard Wimberger on the 30th anniversary of Bernhard Paumgartner's death (accessed on July 10, 2013)
• Alois Eder interviews Bernhard Paumgartner and Ernst Haeusserman for the Ö1 lunch journal from August 29, 1968 at the end of this year's Salzburg Festival in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library (interview, radio feature)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mozart *, Arthur Grumiaux, Bernhard Paumgartner, Wiener Symphoniker - Concertos For Violin & Orchestra N ° 2, K. 211 & N ° 5, K. 219. Accessed July 8, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Clara Haskil, Mozart * - Piano Concerto in D minor, KV 466. Accessed July 8, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association .
4. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association .
5. ↑ Permalink German National Library .
6. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association .
7. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association .
8. ^ Gerhard Croll (Ed.): Bernhard Paumgartner. Artist and researcher. Honorary doctorate at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Salzburg on November 14, 1967. Documentation and bibliography . Salzburg University Speeches, Volume 39. Pustet, Salzburg (among others) 1971, Permalink Austrian Library Association .
9. ^ Inscription Deutschordenshof, Singerstraße: Bernhard Paumgartner 1960 (accessed June 10, 2014)