Egon Lustgarten

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Egon Lustgarten (born August 17, 1887 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died May 2, 1961 in Syosset , New York ) was an Austrian conductor and composer .

Life

After graduating from high school, Lustgarten enrolled at the Vienna Music Academy for two years in 1906 . There he studied composition with Richard Heuberger , piano with Juliusz Wolfsohn and Kapellmeister with Franz Schalk . In 1908 he moved to the University of Vienna and majored in music history . After successfully completing his studies, he worked as a teacher at various music schools from 1913. He taught music theory and piano, worked as a répétiteur, concert accompanist and conductor. From 1920 he taught music theory and composition at the New Vienna Conservatory . Erwin Leuchter and Robert Schollum were among his students . In 1927 he became Max Reinhardt's assistant at the Mirakel Music Festival in Vienna. In addition, he also published articles in the specialist journals Pult und Taktstock and Austrian papers for free intellectual life .

After the connection of Austria to the German Reich emigrated Lustgarten 1938 in the United States , where he worked as a piano teacher in Greenwich , Connecticut , and from 1942 on Master Institute of United Arts in New York worked.

In 1953 he returned to Austria. But he spent his retirement in the USA. Egon Lustgarten died on May 2, 1961 in Syosset, New York, at the age of 74.

Works

  • Man is on the move , bass, choir and orchestra, 1931
  • Dante in Exile , Opera 1938, first performance 2005 in Bernried am Starnberger See , director: Gregorij H. von Leïtis
  • The Blue Mountain , Opera 1942
  • The golden apron , Opera 1943
  • The Dancing Shoes , Opera 1946
  • The fairy tale of the great snake and the green lily , opera 1956
  • Piano quartet, 1920
  • Wind quintet, 1936
  • Violin Concerto, 1957

literature

  • Lustgarten, Egon , In: Kurt Pahlen : Musiklexikon der Welt , Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 1956, p. 181
  • Lustgarten, Egon , In: Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann : Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstler-Lexikon, 1st part , reprint of the 1936 edition, 15th edition, Heinrichshofen's Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1971, p. 367, ISBN 3-7959-0083-2
  • Lustgarten, Egon , In: Theo Stengel , Herbert Gerigk : Lexicon of Jews in Music (publications by the NSDAP Institute for Research on the Jewish Question Frankfurt a [m] M [ain], Vol. 2), Bernhard Hahnefeld Verlag, Berlin 1940 [ complete reprint in: Eva Weissweiler : Ausgemerzt! The Lexicon of Jews in Music and its Murderous Consequences , Dittrich-Verlag, Cologne 1999, pp. 182–375], column 167 (p. 269)
  • Walter Trienes: Jews in Music , In: Otto Girschner: Repetitorium der Musikgeschichte , 10th edition, Musikverlag PJ Tonger, Cologne 1939, p. 389
  • Walter Pass , Gerhard Scheit , Wilhelm Svoboda : Orpheus in Exile, The Expulsion of Austrian Music from 1938 to 1945 , Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1995, pp. 316–317, 401
  • Years of birth 1881-1890 , Chapter 6, In: Robert Schollum : The Austrian Song of the 20th Century , Volume 3 at the Institute for Austrian Music Documentation , Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1977, pp. 69–76
  • Alexander Rausch : Lustgarten, Egon. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Life data according to information in the lexicon of musicians persecuted during the Nazi era at the University of Hamburg. The Austrian Academy of Sciences gives 5 May 1961 as the date of death and Vienna as the place of death in its music dictionary.
  2. ^ Elysium - Between Two Continents - Founders
  3. ↑ World premiere “Dante in Exile” ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), entry in the Bernried community's calendar of events on June 3, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Lustgarten, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1961
Place of death Syosset , New York