Felix Petyrek

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Felix Petyrek
Felix Petyrek's grave site

Felix Karl August Petyrek (born May 14, 1892 in Brno , † December 1, 1951 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer and pianist of new music .

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Petyrek is considered to be versatile and his compositional work has parodic traits. His six grotesque piano pieces with their stylistic persifla caused a sensation in the early twenties. His ability in historical idioms benefited him as a piano and composition teacher at the Athens Conservatory .

Life

Felix Petyrek was the son of the organist and choir conductor August Petyrek, who was the archbishop's organist in Olomouc. From 1894 he received a professorship in Brno and also gave his son his first musical instruction. Felix Petyrek studied musicology with Guido Adler and composition at the Music Academy with Franz Schreker . During the First World War , Petyrek was not drafted to the front for health reasons, but had to look after prisoners of war in the camp near St. Andrä. There he collected songs and chants from prisoners from many nations. Together with Bernhard Paumgartner and Alois Hába , he worked at the Music History Center at the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry . From 1919 Petyrek taught at the Mozarteum . In Salzburg he met the "child prodigy" Loris Margaritis , with whom he became friends from now on.

After Petyrek had lived in Abbazia for three years for health reasons , he went to Athens in 1926, where he led the master class for piano and also worked as a lecturer in musicology. After just one year, his piano class had reached a high artistic level. At the same time he gave lectures and published in professional journals, much of it in Greek.

Later he taught at the music academies in Stuttgart and Leipzig, where he devoted himself to the importance of pedagogically oriented pieces (which are equally suitable for study purposes and for concert performance).

After his plans to emigrate to Switzerland repeatedly failed during the Nazi era and the costs of divorce from his first wife brought him more and more financial difficulties, he joined the NSDAP in order to forestall an impeachment. From 1949 to 1951 he was a professor at the Vienna Music Academy . In December 1951, Felix Petyrek died of high blood pressure, dilation of the heart and a recent stroke with hemiplegia on the right.

He could no longer complete an archive of European folk music. His estate is in the archive of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna .

His final resting place is in the Perchtoldsdorfer Friedhof (group 2A, number 308).

Awards

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A memorial plaque was placed on the house of his former residence in Leipzig on the three-year anniversary of his death in 1955. There is a Felix-Petyrek-Gasse in Perchtoldsdorf , as he often stayed with his sister in Perchtoldsdorf .

The Felix Petyrek competition was named after him .

literature

  • Lisa Mahn: Felix Petyrek: Life picture of a "forgotten" composer . Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1998, ISBN 3-7952-0906-4 .
  • Eva Maria Hois: Bernhard Paumgartner and Felix Petyrek: Two employees of the Music History Center at the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry (1916–1918) . Studia Musicologica 2008
  • Nina-Maria Wanek: The city has no musical tradition to its advantage - Felix Petyrek at the Athens Conservatory . In: Viennese Music History: Approaches, Analyzes, Outlooks, pp. 549 ff.
  • Christoph Schlüren: Goldfogel's new land flights . In: Klassik heute 2001, no. 3, pp. 98-101
  • Carmen Ottner : What at that time seemed unbelievably bold: Franz Schreker's Viennese composition class. Studies on Wilhelm Grosz , Felix Petyrek and Karol Rathaus . Vienna: Lang 2000
  • Carmen Ottner: Felix Petyrek. 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 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mitterwenger / Gatscher-Riedl: Perchtoldsdorfer Straßenlexikon, street names tell history , Perchtoldsdorf, 2004, p. 69
personal data
SURNAME Petyrek, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petyrek, Felix Karl August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1951
Place of death Vienna