Edwin Baumgartner

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Edwin Hans Baumgartner (born June 27, 1961 in Vienna ) is an Austrian composer , musicologist and journalist .

Family, education and career

Baumgartner's parents were the officer of the German merchant marine Erwin Baumgartner and the agricultural scientist Irmtraut Baumgartner. After graduating from the Theresian Academy in Vienna, he studied musicology , theater studies and German at the University of Vienna . During his studies he began his professional activity at the Wiener Zeitung , first as a freelancer in the field of music criticism, from 1992 as an editor, and at times head of the culture department. He is currently the editor of the feature pages specializing in cultural history.

He has been composing since the age of 12 and, after self-taught studies, continued his composition training with the Norwegian composer Antonio Bibalo . He also works as a writer with a focus on horror stories.

Compositions (selection)

Orchestral music

  • Dream time
  • Dreamtime II
  • Five monodies of the presence of God
  • Tempestuoso

Instrumental concerts

  • Concerto for violoncello and orchestra
  • Ceremony of love for violoncello solo and 12 solo strings

Vocal music

  • Riddles And Songs based on anonymous Middle English texts for soprano and piano
  • The letters of Günderode for soprano and piano
  • Ie vis ie meure based on poems by Louise Labé for soprano and harp
  • Creatures Beloved. Animal poems by English authors for high voice and piano
  • Mechtildis Revelationes based on texts by Mechthild von Magdeburg for soprano and small orchestra

Piano and chamber music

  • A tricky dance. Parodistic piano pieces
  • Suite for violoncello solo
  • Laudes for string sextet

Stage works

  • Odysseus. Opera based on your own text (not full-length, discarded youth work)
  • Dance of death. Opera based on Franz Kranewitter (not full-length)
  • September Pope. Short opera, text: Christian Heindl

Literary works (selection)

  • Night Sea Voyage (novel)
  • The Schneider Lindenbruch Group (nine stories)
  • The Scream and Other Strange Stories (Seven Stories)
  • The Great Elagabalo and Other Stories (Eight Stories)
  • Schmäh - The Viennese answer to the stupidity of the world (Claudius, Munich 2018)
  • Let's call him Rumpelstiltskin - stories from the literary regulars' table (joint work with Doris Kloimstein and Ingrid Schramm, Goldegg, Vienna 2019)

Awards

  • 2014 Golden Mole from the online magazine Der Umblätterer for the best German-language feature articles
personal data
SURNAME Baumgartner, Edwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baumgartner, Edwin Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, musicologist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna