Eusebius Mandyczewski

Eusebius Mandyczewski

Grave of Eusebius Mandyczewski

Eusebius Mandyczewski ( Romanian Eusebie Mandicevschi ; born August 18, 1857 in Czernowitz , † July 13, 1929 in Vienna ) was an Austrian musicologist and composer of Romanian origin.

Life

Eusebius Mandyczewski, descendant of an old Greek Orthodox priestly family , began to compose during his time at the Imperial and Royal High School in Chernivtsi. He studied music theory with Martin Gustav Nottebohm and musicology with Eduard Hanslick . In 1879 he met Johannes Brahms , with whom he was a close friend until his death. From 1896 he taught music history , later also instrument studies , harmony , counterpoint and composition at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde . In 1887 he became head of the Vienna Singing Academy and archivist of the Society of Friends of Music . In the same year he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig. He was one of the most important initiators of the complete editions of the works of Franz Schubert , Joseph Haydn and Johannes Brahms. In 1901 Eusebius Mandyczewski married Albine von Vest, vocal teacher and director of the women's choir of the Vienna Society of Friends of Music.

His grave of honor is located in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 0, Row 1, Number 99).

Works

He composed orthodox masses , piano pieces, song cycles , male choirs and variations on themes by Handel for piano.

literature

• Theophil Antonicek :  Mandyczewski Eusebius. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 49.
• Martha Handlos :  Mandyczewski, Eusebius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 20 ( digitized version ).
• Christian Lambour: Eusebius Mandyczewski - echoes of a master (= Czernowitzer Kleine Schriften, booklet 29). Traditional association “Catholic Czernowitz Pennäler”, Innsbruck 2014, ISBN 978-3-902368-35-5 .

Web links

Commons : Eusebius Mandyczewski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Eusebius Mandyczewski  - Sources and full texts

• Works by and about Eusebius Mandyczewski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Eusebius Mandyczewski  in the German Digital Library
• Christiane Wiesenfeldt : Edition im Akkord or The Scholar in the Background: On the 75th anniversary of the death of the editor and composer Eusebius Mandyczewski. In: The Tonkunst. July 1, 2004, archived from the original on July 17, 2004 . 
• Sheet music and audio files by Eusebius Mandyczewski in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reinhard Müller : Eusebius Mandyczewski. Archive for the History of Sociology in Austria, June 2008, accessed on June 24, 2018 . 
2. ^ Ingeborg Schinnerl: Mandyczewski, Eusebius. In: Austria Forum . Retrieved June 24, 2018 .