Carl Billich (musician)

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Carl Billich (born July 23, 1911 in Vienna as Karl Billich ; † October 23, 1989 ) was an Austrian-Icelandic musician ( piano , vocals ) and music director.

Life

Billich came as the son of the surgical instrument maker Karl Josef Billich (1883–1956) and the unskilled worker Elisabeth Anna, nee. Nowak, (1900–1984) in the women's hospice of the cooperative health insurance funds . In 1933 he came to Iceland for the first time with an Austrian band to play in the Hotel Íslandi in Reykjavík . He settled in Iceland and married the Icelander heuríður Jónsdóttir (1913-2004) on May 27, 1939. After the British occupation of Iceland , he was interned in Liverpool and on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien and sent to Vienna in 1944. For a few years he worked as a musician in Berlinand Vienna. In 1947 he was able to come back to Iceland at the instigation of his wife and was naturalized there.

Billich was a member of the MA Kvartettinn and numerous other formations that are considered to be the style-forming elements of the Icelandic music of their time.

From 1964 to 1981 he was music director at the Icelandic National Theater .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b baptismal register Vienna-Döbling, tom. XXV, fol. 145 ( facsimile ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Þorkell Helgi Sigfússon: Carl Billich and áhrif hans á íslenska karlakvartetta . February 2013 (Icelandic, skemman.is [accessed July 16, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b marriage book Vienna-Rudolfsheim, tom. X, fol. 202 ( facsimile )
  4. ^ Baptismal register Vienna-Neulerchenfeld, tom. XLVIII, fol. 256 ( facsimile )
  5. ↑ ÞURÍÐUR BILLICH. In: Morgunblaðið . March 3, 2004, p. 33 , accessed July 16, 2020 (Icelandic).
  6. ↑ WW2 Internees (Aliens) Index Cards 1939–1947, HO 396/299 and HO 396/247.
  7. ↑ a b Carl Billich. In: Morgunblaðið . July 23, 2015, accessed July 16, 2020 (Icelandic).
personal data
SURNAME Billich, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Billich, Karl (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Icelandic musician and music director
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1989