Frida Kern

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Frida Kern (born March 9, 1891 in Vienna , † December 23, 1988 in Linz ) was an Austrian composer and conductor .

Frida, b. Seitz, was the eldest of four siblings and moved with her parents, Wilhelm and Hermine Seitz to Linz in 1896, and married the bank clerk Max Kern there in 1909 at the age of 18 . After recovering from typhoid fever , she began to study at the Vienna Music Academy from 1912 to 1914 with financial help from her parents . In 1923 she continued her music studies with Franz Schmidt ( composition ) and Robert Heger ( conducting ). Other teachers were Dirk Fock , Eusebius Mandyczewski and Alexander Wunder . In 1927 she completed her exams in composition and music director and then worked as a freelance composer. She founded a women's band with whom she toured Europe and North Africa . The works she composed were played on the radio and at concerts.

The time of National Socialism did not have a negative effect on her career - in 1942 she received the Upper Danube Region Culture Prize and in 1943 she was appointed lecturer at the University of Vienna .

When she was rehabilitated after the war , she received the title of professor in 1960 and became vice-president of the Upper Austrian Association of Artists . Among other things, she was a member of the Innviertel Artists' Guild .

Honors

  • 1942 Culture Prize of the Upper Danube Gau
  • In 1955, the Kernweg in the Pichling district was named after her, which connects the Zeisig- and Klettfischerweg
  • Awarded the professional title of Professor (1960)
  • Naming of the core path in Linz (1995)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kernweg , in: Web presence of the city of Linz
personal data
SURNAME Kern, Frida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1988
Place of death Linz