Franz Litschauer
Franz Litschauer (born April 6, 1903 in Laa an der Thaya , † February 29, 1972 in Vienna ) was an Austrian conductor and composer.
Live and act
Litschauer played chamber music and in an orchestra as a student in Stockerau . He studied composition with Joseph Marx and conducting with Hermann Scherchen at the Vienna Music Academy, today's University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . From 1938 to 1941 he was director of the Vienna Women's Symphony Orchestra and from 1947 to 1952 the Vienna Symphony Orchestra . He founded the Vienna Chamber Orchestra .
From 1953 he was mostly no longer active in Austria. From 1956 he was conductor of the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, which he founded, for four years. He then worked as chief conductor of the Greek radio orchestra in Athens . Positions in Italy , Canada and South Africa followed .
Franz Litschauer was married to the cellist and music teacher Frieda Litschauer-Krause .
literature
- Alexander Rausch : Litschauer, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Litschauer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data from Alexander Rausch : Litschauer, Familie. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Litschauer, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian conductor and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Laa an der Thaya |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 29, 1972 |
| Place of death | Vienna |