Franz Thürauer
Franz Thürauer (born September 25, 1953 in Wolfenreith No. 9, municipality of Bergern in the Dunkelsteinerwald ) is an Austrian composer , music teacher and church musician .
education
Thürauer received lessons in clarinet and piano. From 1969 to 1972 he was trained at the Tyrolean State Conservatory in Innsbruck in the subjects of organ and violin. At high school in St. Charles / Volders he graduated from the Matura 1972. He then went to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where he church music at Anton Heiller and Hans Gillesberger , and composition with Francis Burt and Kurt Schwertsik studied.
Professional career
Thürauer began his career as a music teacher at the St. Pölten Music School in the 1978/79 school year, where he was employed as a piano teacher. From September 1, 1979 he was also appointed as a music teacher at the Stiftsgymnasium Melk , where he was the teacher of Josef Hader and Otto Lechner , among others . As a composer, this gave him the opportunity to create appropriate musical works for his students and their choice of musical instruments. In 1984 he was appointed to the “Regens Chori” of Melk Abbey, and Franz Thürauer dedicated himself to church music as an organist and choir director. Thürauer received composition commissions for the "Melker Whitsun Concerts", where, among other things, the Concertino Kolomani on March 21, 1983 in the Kolomani Hall of the monastery with Elisabeth Ullmann (organ), Bijan Khadem-Missagh (conductor and violin) and the "Tonkünstler Chamber Orchestra Vienna" came to performance. In 1991/92 he also got a teaching position for ear training and solfeggio at the music academy in Vienna. His works were performed in Vienna (Musikverein, Konzerthaus, ORF broadcasting hall, Vienna Music Summer), as well as at the Bregenz Festival, Lower Austria Danube Festival, in the Brucknerhaus Linz, in Japan and in America. The performers were the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Saxophone Quartet, the Ensemble Kontrapunkte, the Lower Austrian Tonkünstlerorchester, the Wiener Virtuosen, the Wiener Jeunesse Orchestra, the Stadttheater St. Pölten, the Wiener Symphoniker and many others.
Thürauer is married and has four children. On August 31, 2012, he finished teaching at the Stiftsgymnasium Melk, but he is still active as a music school teacher at the St. Pölten Music School.
Prizes and awards (selection)
- 1982 Award of the Theodor-Körner Foundation
- 1990 Austrian Promotion Prize for Music
- 2015 Lower Austrian Culture Prize - Appreciation Prize
Web links
- Austrian composer Bund-MICA
- Interest group of Lower Austrian composers
- Franz Thürauer
- Church colored Franz Thürauer
- hiphaus Franz Thürauer
- Franz Thürauer with his work tocca-tina
- Entry in the Online_Lexikon of the Austrian Music Lexicon
- A composer and his cultural environment
- Organ workshop in hiphaus 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2015 - Culture Prize Winners of the State of Lower Austria ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 7, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thürauer, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer, music teacher and church musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolfenreith (municipality of Bergern in the Dunkelsteinerwald) |