Emil Petschnig

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Emil Petschnig (born December 19, 1877 in Klagenfurt , † December 15, 1939 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer and music critic .

Life

Emil Petschnig came from Carinthia . Like his father, he worked full-time as a railway official. As such, he was promoted from adjunct to auditor in 1913 . At the time of his retirement he was chief inspector .

From 1896 to 1900 Petschnig studied music theory, counterpoint and harmony as well as composition with Robert Fuchs at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna . He also took private lessons with Alexander Zemlinsky from 1904 to 1906 . At least at the beginning of his career as a composer, Petschnig had great difficulties getting his works to be performed or printed. It was not until 1909 that one of his works, the symphonic overture to Friedrich Hebbel's tragedy Gyges and his Ring, was performed for the first time in the Teplitz-Schönau city ​​theater . Of his six operas, for which he had also written the libretto , not a single one was performed in full during his lifetime. He tried his hand at different genres, including composing workers' songs , while remaining stuck with a backward-looking musical language. He gained recognition as a composer of ballads , which the music critic Otto Chmel praised for "creating the right mood with the least amount of resources."

Emil Petschnig achieved fame primarily through his numerous publications on music. With his essay A. Schönberg, the Psychopath , published in 1924, he distinguished himself as a sharp opponent of Arnold Schönberg and atonal music . He also rejected Richard Wagner and his successor composers. He advocated the singability of opera parts and a transparent orchestral setting. From Vienna, Petschnig organized an illegal network for the international distribution of pornographic photographs, for which he was sentenced to three months of strict arrest in 1931. He died in 1939 shortly before his 62nd birthday.

Emil Petschnig's estate is in the music collection of the Vienna Library in the City Hall and in the Austrian National Library . The Petschniggasse in Vienna- Inzersdorf was named after him in 1959.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Felix Czeike (Ed.): Petschnig Emil. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 4, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 , p. 531 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ From the Southern Railway Services. In:  Marburger Zeitung , September 30, 1913, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / mbz
  3. ↑ death. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt (daily edition) , December 21, 1939, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg
  4. ^ Johannes Reichert:  IV. Philharmonic Concert on February 26, 1909 (Emil Petschnig). In:  Teplitz-Schönauer Anzeiger , February 24, 1909, p. 8 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / tsa
  5. ↑ Dr. Otto Chmel: Emil Petschnig. Three ballads for baritone and pianoforte . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , April 1924, p. 8 (online at ANNO )
  6. ↑ a b Uwe Harten : Petschnig, Emil. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
  7. ↑ 3,000 plates of indecent photographs confiscated. In:  Neue Freie Presse , February 11, 1931, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  8. ↑ Export in filth and trash. In:  Salzburger Chronik , October 26, 1931, p. 15 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / sch
  9. ↑ Felix Czeike (Ed.): Petschniggasse. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 4, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 , p. 531 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Petschnig, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1939
Place of death Vienna