Eugene Brixel

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Eugen Brixel (born March 27, 1939 in Mährisch Schönberg , Sudetenland ; † October 16, 2000 in Graz / Styria / Austria ) was an Austrian composer , musician and musicologist . The focus of his work was international wind music research .

Life

Eugen Brixel was born in 1939 in the Sudetenland in the city of Mährisch-Schönberg. During World War II, driven out by the Czechs, his family finally came to Vienna, where he completed his compulsory schooling with the school brothers. First of all, Eugen Brixel learned the profession of pharmacist in accordance with his parents' wishes. On June 12, 1956, he passed the drug exams, but his passion was playing the clarinet.

From the age of sixteen he studied clarinet with Leopold Wlach and Karl Österreicher at the Vienna Music Academy (now the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna ) and graduated with honors in 1962. After passing on October 11, 1960 external Matura, he studied the subjects of theater studies, musicology and psychology also at the University of Vienna, on 16 July 1967 where he became Dr. phil. PhD.

Eugen Brixel married his wife Eva Leeb in 1964, his daughter Constanze Viola was born in 1965 and his daughter Regine Cosima was born in 1973.

He served in the military from 1967 to 1969 with the Guard Music Vienna and the Military Music Salzburg, and on November 7, 1968, he passed the military music director examination in Vienna. Between 1969 and 1974 Eugen Brixel was the director of the Feldbach music school. He founded the theater association “Die Theatraliker”, initiated the Feldbach Summer Festival, initiated a big band and took over the management of the Feldbach town music.

In the Styrian brass music association he was first from 1970 as a state youth officer, from 1978 then as a federal youth officer in the Austrian brass music association (ÖBV), before the ÖBV appointed him federal music director in 1989. He kept this position until his death.

At the Graz University of Music (Music University) Eugen Brixel worked as a university assistant from 1972, from 1978 as a professor (LI) until his death in 2000. At the Graz Art University, Eugen Brixel worked in the field of wind didactics, as conductor of the university wind orchestra and through the Establishment and management of the wind orchestra conducting course. He was anchored in the Presidium of the three international organizations that are dedicated to specific issues of brass music within UNESCO: in the CISM as chairman of the music advisory board, in the IGEB (International Society for the Research and Promotion of Brass Music) as vice-president and in the WASBE (World Association for Symphonie Bands and Ensembles) as advisory board.

Eugen Brixel died of severe cancer on October 16, 2000.

Prizes and awards

Works

Solo and ensemble works

  • Audiamus igitur - Burlesque for 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba, Möseler Verlag, 1982
  • Sonatina for clarinet solo

Concert band works

  • Bagatelles - an Austrian divertimento in 4 movements, Verlag Helbling
  • Esmeralda - Music from Southern Europe, Kliment Verlag
  • Transatlantic - Rhapsodie, Verlag Adler
  • Viennensia - Suite, Verlag Helbling
  • Apropos Strauss - contemporary original music, Verlag Helbling
  • Disneyland - Suite, Kliment Verlag
  • Salute to Carl Michael (paraphrase), concert music, Verlag Ziehrer
  • Play Fahrbach, Kliment publishing house
  • Young blowers parade - concert march, Verlag Helbling
  • Musica Solemnis - Sacred Music, Verlag Helbling

Edits

  • Harmoniemusik D72 (C), Schubert Franz
  • Overture for harmony music, Viktorin Hallmayr

Incidental music

  • Knight's Cocktail (Musical, 1961)
  • Politics in Waltz Time or Virginia and the Emperor (Musical, Libretto: Hermann Demel , 1968)
  • The German Small Towners (1971)
  • Rapunzel (fairy tale, 1982)
  • Lippl vulgo Faust (Volksstück by Gerda Klimek , 1993)

Publications

  • Wind music and its development in the history of instruments , 1976, Oberneukirchen
  • Clarinet Bibliography I , 1977, Wilhelmshaven
  • The young musician , 1980, Oberneukirchen.
  • (with Wolfgang Suppan ): The great Styrian brass music book , 1981, Vienna
  • (with Martin and Pils): This is Austria's military music , 1982, Graz
  • The great Upper Austrian brass music book , Brandstätter, Vienna; Munich 1984. ISBN 978-3-85447-031-1
  • The clarinet and the saxophone , 1983, Oberneukirchen
  • (with M. Schönherr): Karl Komzak. Father - son - grandson , 1989, Vienna
  • Articles in professional journals.
  • Co-editor of the book series "Alta musica", 1975–2000.
  • Editor of E. Rameis: The Austrian military music - from its beginnings to 1918 , 1976, Tutzing 1976

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personal data
SURNAME Brixel, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer for brass music
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Moravian Schönberg
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 2000
Place of death Styria , Austria