Erik Friday

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Erik Freitag (born February 1, 1940 in Vienna ) is an Austrian composer and violinist.

Life

Erik Freitag studied violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , among others with Eduard Melkus and then composition with Karl-Birger Blomdahl at the Royal Swedish Music Academy .

From 1964 to 1967 he was violinist in the Sveriges Radio Symfoniorchester and from 1967 to 1970 in the Stockholm Filharmoniska Orchestra . He then directed the Vienna Ottakring Music School until 2003. In 1987 he founded the Ensemble Wiener Collage with Eugene Hartzell and René Staar , which is dedicated to the interpretation of contemporary works, especially by Austrian composers.

Awards

  • Sponsorship award from the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts 1975
  • Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna 1979
  • Theodor Körner Prize 1988
  • Composer in Residence at Northwestern Univ. of Michigan / USA 1996

Works

  • Hymn - cantata for speaker, tenor, mixed choir, alto flute, harp, vibraphone and violin, 1970
  • Small suite for strings and piano , 1972
  • Moving Studies - Scenes for Dancers , 1973
  • Three pieces for string quartet , 1976
  • Three miniatures for piano four hands , 1977
  • Divertimento for wind quintet , 1977
  • Transformations - for violin and piano according to the Latvian tune "Araji, ecetaji" , 1978
  • Suite for orchestra - from 'Moving Studies' , 1978
  • Limericks - (5 songs for mezzo and 6 instruments) , 1978
  • Two movements for strings , 1980
  • Sonata (night pieces) for violin and viola, 1980
  • Suite for the Young for Orchestra, 1981
  • Elegy and dance for oboe and string quartet, 1981
  • Overture danoise for orchestra, 1982
  • El retablo de la catedral de Tarragona , 1982, 1992, 2000
  • Quasi una marcia for chamber orchestra, 1983
  • Strindberg - Light and Shadow - (ljus och skugga) , 1985, 2008
  • Linee per violino solo , 1985
  • Three pieces for piano , 1985
  • Hommage à un grand artiste , 1986
  • Triad , 1987
  • Passages in the wind - (Baritone and 7 instruments) , 1987
  • Concerto for violin and orchestra , 1998
  • Seis canciones castellanas , 1989
  • Quintet 1989
  • Twelve Duos for two violins , 1990
  • Sonata for violoncello and piano , 1990
  • Reflections in air for string trio, 1990
  • Bright Night for string orchestra, 1990
  • Moment des Faun for alto flute, 1990
  • Nocturne , 1992
  • Idun , 1992
  • Yotziguanazí - Tres leyendas centroamericanas , 1994
  • Triaphony I , 1995
  • Soul-Sky - based on the poem by John Gracen Brown , 1995
  • Immagini , 1995
  • Circuits Magiques - pour quatuor à cordes , 1996
  • Triaphonie II , 1997
  • Triaphonie III , 1998
  • in the hour of death of alfons alfred schmidt , stage play for singers, speakers and 7 instrumentalists, 1998
  • Quintet 2000
  • 6 songs for medium voice and percussion , 2000
  • Triaphony IV , 2001
  • Canciones Espanolas Antiguas , 2001
  • Concerto da Camera for chamber orchestra, 2002
  • Pablo's gallery , 2004
  • Marsyas & Apollo , 2004
  • En svensk jullegend (A Swedish Christmas Legend ), 2005
  • Triaphony V - Omar Chajjam , 2006
  • Concertino for marimba and strings , 2006

literature

personal data
SURNAME Friday, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and violinist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna