Ernst Märzendorfer
Ernst Märzendorfer (born May 26, 1921 in Oberndorf near Salzburg ; † September 16, 2009 in Vienna ) was an Austrian conductor , composer and music researcher.
Life
Ernst Märzendorfer studied in Graz with Robert Wagner and with Clemens Krauss at the Mozarteum Salzburg. His conducting career began in 1940 at the Graz Opera . As a result he founded the Graz a cappella choir, with which he realized important first performances (Frank Martins Golgotha and others). After two years at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires , where he worked as Karl Böhm's assistant and as a conductor, he was chief conductor of the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg from 1953 to 1958 . As such, he promoted the construction of apartments for the families of young orchestral musicians in the Salzburger Siebenstädterstraße 29. From 1951 he was a professor at the Salzburg Music Academy Mozarteum , today's Mozarteum University in Salzburg . During his engagement in Berlin (from 1958 to 1961) he made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1959 with Rigoletto and was appointed permanent guest conductor at the Vienna State Opera. From 1964 to 1984 he was also a permanent guest conductor at the Berlin State Opera .
Märzendorf's opera repertoire comprised more than eighty operas (from Mozart to Wagner, Verdi, Debussy, Krenek and Milhaud). These include premieres such as Die Schweigsame Frau in Salzburg, Der Rosenkavalier and Siegfried in Rome, Parsifal in Berlin and the American premiere of Strauss' Capriccio . Intermezzo by Richard Strauss , with whom he was personally known, is one of the premieres at the Vienna Volksoper . In Graz he conducted more than twenty concerts, including a Mahler cycle between 1968 and 1973, including the world premiere of his arrangement of the finale of Bruckner's Ninth and Hugo Wolf's Intermezzo for string orchestra. His international work in opera and concert took him to France, Romania, Italy, Japan, North and South America, among others; he conducted at the Salzburg and Bregenz Festival and the Vienna Festival , performed with the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony, and other major orchestras. As chief conductor of the Salzburg Hellbrunn Festival, he conducted twenty different stage works in twenty-five years - from Offenbach to Richard Strauss' last unfinished opera Des Esels Schatten .
The symphonic focus of his conducting activity was on the works of Bruckner and Gustav Mahler . He conducted premieres of works by the composers Hindemith ( Mathis the painter in Paris), Dallapiccola, Orff, Bartók, Britten and Henze. He was the first conductor to record all of Joseph Haydn's seven hundred and seven symphonies in Vienna. Of his numerous recordings, the complete recordings of L'elisir d'amore , One Night in Venice , The Huguenots or Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo (Salzburg Festival 1973) as well as works by Johann Strauss the father should be mentioned.
The highlights of his operatic career include performances of Strauss' Die Schweigsame Frau , Pfitzner's Palestrina , Schnittke's Gesualdo and the world premieres of Henzes Tancredi and Idiot at the Vienna State Opera and Ivan Eröd's Orpheus ex machina in Graz. In 2003 he conducted the uncut version of Enescu's Œdipe in Bucharest. From 2005 on, he was chief conductor of the festival in the Roman quarry of St. Margarethen in Burgenland, Austria.
Märzendorfer, who played the piano, violin and viola, also emerged as a composer of chamber music works, piano concerts, incidental music and a ballet ( Teufelsgarde 1944).
Honors
In 1999, Märzendorfer was made an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera and in 2009 an honorary member of the Styrian Music Association.
He was the recipient of the Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (2006) as well as the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class (1991) and the Great Medal of Honor of the State of Styria , in 1991 he received the Johann Josef Fux Prize. He was given the professional title of Professor by the Austrian Federal President .
literature
- Program from March 26, 2009 of the Musikverein for Styria
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
Web links
- Obituary in the press on September 16, 2009
- Obituary of the Austria Press Agency from September 16, 2009
- Works by and about Ernst Märzendorfer in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Märzendorfer, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian conductor, composer and music researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberndorf near Salzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 2009 |
| Place of death | Vienna |