Franz Mixa
Franz Mixa (born June 3, 1902 in Vienna , † January 16, 1994 in Munich ) was an Austrian composer , conductor and music teacher .
Life
Mixa studied at the Vienna State Academy for Music with Eusebius Mandyczewski , Robert Heger , Franz Schmidt and Joseph Marx and completed his training in 1927 with the Kapellmeister diploma. In addition, he worked as a solo répétiteur at the Vienna Volksoper in the 1923/24 season and as the second conductor of the Academic Orchestra Association from 1923–26. In 1929 he was at the University of Vienna after studying with Robert Lach, Wilhelm Fischer , Guido Adler of the dissertation and the clarinet in Mozart's time Ph.D.. On the recommendation of Robert Heger, Mixa went to Reykjavík in 1929 to lead the music program for the millennium celebration of the Icelandic Parliament ( Althing ) in 1930 . He stayed as music director in Reykjavík and founded the conservatory and the music association there; in between he kept returning to his homeland, only to finally come back to Austria in 1938. First he taught music theory at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz and headed the opera school at the Styrian State Conservatory . After joining the NSDAP in 1932 , he was the regional director of the Reichsmusikkammer Gau Styria from 1938 to 1943 . He was then drafted into the Wehrmacht and in 1945 was taken prisoner by the French. After his release in 1947, he rebuilt the State Conservatory and was its director from 1952-57. There he met his second wife, Hertha Töpper , they married in 1949 and subsequently had joint concerts. With their commitment to the Bavarian State Opera, both moved to Munich, where he lived as a freelance composer. From 1971–73 he also worked at the University of Music in Munich.
He was buried in the Solln forest cemetery in Munich.
Works (selection)
- String Quartet (1924)
- Oratorio Sonnengesang (1945/46)
- Little symphonic music (1949)
- German Fair (1949)
- Icelandic Rhapsody (1949/50)
- 5 symphonies
- Operas
- Eyvind and his wife (1937-39; premiere 1964)
- The Dream a Life (1963)
Awards
- 1948 Composition Prize of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde
- 1949 Order of the Falcons
- 1949 Joseph Marx Prize of the State of Styria (and also 1958)
- 1955 title of professor
- 1957 Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 1962 honorary membership of the Styrian Tonkünstlerbund
- 1976 Great Decoration of Honor of the State of Styria
- 1987 Great Knights Cross of the Order of the Falcons (Iceland)
- 1988 Great Golden Decoration of the State of Styria
literature
- Georg Zauner (ed.): The composer Franz Mixa. Life and work . (With catalog raisonné). Schneider, Tutzing 2002, ISBN 3795210879 .
- Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945 . Kiel 2004, CD-ROM lexicon, p. 4650 f.
- Austrian music lexicon . Volume 3. (Ed. Rudolf Flotzinger), Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, p. 1456, ISBN 3700130457 .
Web links
- Works by and about Franz Mixa in the catalog of the German National Library
- Franz Mixa in the Austrian Music Lexicon online
- Raimund Eberle on Franz Mixa
- Report on the exhibition "The composer Franz Mixa (1902–1996)"
- Susanne Windholz: "A Forgotten Graz Personality" (with portrait) (PDF file, there pages 8–10; 917 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joined on January 16, 1932, membership number 782.617; see. Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945 . Kiel 2004.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mixa, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1994 |
| Place of death | Munich |