Carmen Ottner

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Carmen Ottner (2013)

Carmen Ottner (* in the 20th century in Vienna ) is an Austrian musicologist and theater scholar.

Life

Daughter of the Vienna Philharmonic, member of the State Opera Orchestra and professor at the then Academy for Music and Performing Arts (trombone) Franz Bahner and Gertrude geb. Teichl. After graduating from the humanistic grammar school Fichtnergasse in Vienna, studies from 1967 at the University of Vienna : music, theater studies, philosophy, supplemented by courses at the Vienna Music Academy with Friedrich Neumann, Erwin Ratz, Alfred Uhl. In 1974 she was awarded the dissertation The word-sound problem in the piano songs of Wilhelm KienzlPhD. After marrying her colleague Helmut Ottner and the birth of daughter Anita and son Oliver, she works freelance in the following institutions in Vienna: 1975–2010 as a member of the editorial team of the “Österreichische Musikzeitschrift”; 1985 – April 2017 as general secretary of the “Franz Schmidt Society” (here publication, author of the book series “Studies on Franz Schmidt” published by the “Doblinger” publishing house, as well as design of an annual concert and lecture series “Franz Schmidt Days” and nine symposia); from 1993 collaboration in the "Austrian Society for Music" as a board member, managing director, vice - and since June 2016 president (in addition to the program design, she also works as a speaker and moderator). 1995-1998 collaboration on the project "Special Research Area Modern: Vienna and Central Europe around 1900" (with a book publication, numerous essays and lectures on Franz Schreker's composition lessons and his most important students).

Works

Independent writings
  • The word-tone problem in Wilhelm Kienzl's piano songs. Typewritten dissertation, University of Vienna 1974.
  • Sources on Franz Schmidt - 1. Autographs, prints, manuscripts, letters in Viennese public collections (= Franz Schmidt Society [Hrsg.]: Studies on Franz Schmidt . Volume IV ). Doblinger, Vienna / Munich 1985, ISBN 3-900035-89-X .
  • Sources on Franz Schmidt - 2. Letters, autographs, private records, memories (= Franz Schmidt Society [Hrsg.]: Studies on Franz Schmidt . Volume V ). Doblinger, Vienna / Munich 1987, ISBN 3-900695-01-6 .
  • What at the time appeared to be incredible boldness. Franz Schreker's composition class. Studies on Wilhelm Grosz, Felix Petyrek and Karol Rathaus. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main-Berlin-Bern-Bruxelles-New York-Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-631-35242-5 .
Editing
  • Opera in Vienna. 1900-1925 (= studies on Franz Schmidt vol. IX.) Doblinger publishing house, Vienna 1991. ISBN 3-900695-20-2 .
  • Franz Schmidt and the Austrian organ music of his time (= studies on Franz Schmidt vol. X.) Verlag Doblinger, Vienna 1992. ISBN 3-900695-24-5 .
  • Chamber music between the world wars (= studies on Franz Schmidt vol. XI.) Doblinger publishing house, Vienna 1995. ISBN 3-900695-34-2 .
  • with Eva Badura-Skoda, Gerold Gruber, Walburga Litschauer: Franz Schubert and his friends . Verlag Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-205-98853-1 .
  • Franz Schmidt and Preßburg (= studies on Franz Schmidt vol. XII.) Doblinger publishing house, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-900695-44-X .
  • Apocalypse . Verlag Doblinger, Vienna 2001. ISBN 3-900695-54-7 .
  • Female figures in operas in the 19th and 20th centuries (= studies on Franz Schmidt, vol. XIV.) Doblinger publishing house, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-900695-65-2 .
  • with Manfred Angerer, Eike Rathgeber: Kurt Weill Symposion. The music-dramatic work. On the 100th birthday and 50th anniversary of death . Verlag Doblinger, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-900695-63-6 .
  • Music in Vienna: 1938-1945 (= studies on Franz Schmidt vol. XV.) Doblinger publishing house, Vienna 2006. ISBN 3-900695-87-3 .
  • with Manfred Angerer, Eike Rathgeber: Musical culture of conversation. The string quartet in the Habsburg multi-ethnic state . Verlag Doblinger, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-900695-81-4 .
  • with Michael Heinemann, Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen: Public loneliness. The German-language song and its composers in the early 20th century. Verlag Christoph Dohr, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-936655-73-5 .
  • The Piano Concerto in Austria and Germany from 1900-1945 (= Studies on Franz Schmidt Vol. XVI.) Doblinger Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-902667-17-5 .
  • with Erich Partsch: Music theater in Vienna around 1900. Gustav Mahler and his contemporaries . Verlag Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2014, ISBN 978-3-86296-069-9 .
  • The end of the symphony in Austria and Germany. 1900-1945 (= studies on Franz Schmidt vol. XVII.) Doblinger publishing house, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902667-53-3 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The ÖNB or DNB give the following data: "approx. End of 20th century / beginning of 21st century"
personal data
SURNAME Ottner, Carmen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bahner, Carmen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna