Cornelia Giese

Cornelia "Conny" Giese (born January 4, 1959 in Berlin ; † February 19, 2000 ) was a German jazz singer and composer who was part of the Viennese scene.

Live and act

Giese, who had lived in Vienna since she was ten, received training at the jazz department of the Bruckner Conservatory . In the mid-1990s she sang in the improvisation ensemble Voces spontane , which was partly expanded to include the bassists Achim Tang and Johannes Strasser. She also performed with the Vienna Art Orchestra , around 1997 at the Saalfelden Jazz Festival , and with the NDR Big Band . In 1998 she released her first album with her permanent trio and guests, some of the songs of which were written by herself. She taught jazz singing at the Franz Schubert Conservatory in Vienna .

On the occasion of a memorial concert for Giese, the idea arose to set up a social aid fund from the Austrian Music Office for freelance jazz musicians, which was named after the singer. Posthumously in 2001 Giese's partner Johannes Strasser produced the CD Cornelia Giese - Lembranca , a live recording of the artist with the Fritz Pauer Trio from the Radiokulturhaus in Vienna on February 27, 1999. Her compositions will continue to be performed internationally. Cornelia-Giese-Platz in Vienna- Penzing has been named after her since 2007 .

Discographic notes

• Rainsong (with Robert Schönherr, Johannes Strasser, Mario Gonzi , Klaus Dickbauer , Fritz Pauer; PG Records 1997)
• Lembranca (with Fritz Pauer, Johannes Strasser, Joris Dudli ; PG Records 1999)

literature

• Monika Kornberger: Giese, Cornelia. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
• Eva Marx, Gerlinde Haas: 210 Austrian women composers from the 16th century to the present: biography, work and bibliography: a lexicon . Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg, Vienna, Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-7017-1215-8 , pp. 450–451.
• Cornelia Giese - a voice that had something to say . Concerto 2/2000, p. 34 (without indication of responsibility)

Web links

• Rainsong discussion

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press reports Voces spontaneously
2. ↑ cf. Cornelia Giese Fund. In: hanskollerpreis.at. Archived from the original on August 20, 2011 ; accessed on March 13, 2019 . 
3. ↑ cf. Stefanie Bramböck The Viennese jazz scene. A music scene between self-help and institution. Frankfurt am Main 2010, p. 186
4. ↑ Zach-Auer-Muttenthaler (2012) ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and Kraut & Rüben (2008) (PDF; 60 kB) 
5. ↑ cf. Brigitte Nemec renaming streets in Vienna as media of past politics. 1910-2010. Master's thesis University of Vienna 2008, p. 160 and Cornelia Giese Memorial Quartet ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.