Friedrich Sedlak

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Friedrich Sedlak (born July 2, 1895 in Vienna ; † December 18, 1977 there ) was an Austrian violinist and conductor.

Life

Sedlak was the son of a tailor from Moravia. He studied four semesters at the University of Vienna and became a member of the Raetia (equal) fraternity in the Burschenbunds-Convent . He took part in the First World War and was taken prisoner by the Russians. In 1922 he became a member of the Vienna Philharmonic . In 1923 he founded the Sedlak-Winkler Quartet, named after him and the cellist Wilhelm Winkler (1892–1973). With Vittorio Borri and Gustav Gruber, it was one of Vienna's most popular chamber music formations in the interwar period . In 1924/25 it was among the first ensembles to be heard on the radio . Appearances in the Wiener Konzerthaus can be verified until 1950 . The quartet premiered numerous works by Franz Ippisch , who had contributed to its founding.

In occupied post-war Austria, Sedlak's knowledge of Russian - he was married to a Russian woman - made it easier to deal with the Soviet authorities and the transition from National Socialism to post-war democracy. The social democrat Sedlak was provisional director of the Vienna Philharmonic in 1945/46. He was her concertmaster for over two decades, from 1945 until his retirement in 1965. At that time he was also active as a conductor, for example in the Hofburgkapelle , at the Vienna State Opera and at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna . When the Kleiner Festspielhaus in Salzburg opened, he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic on July 29, 1963.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Naumann: Directory of the members of the old gentlemen's association of BC Munich e. V. and all other former BCers as well as the old men of the Wiener SC . Saarbrücken, Christmas 1962, p. 57.
  2. ^ Christian Fastl: Sedlak, Friedrich (Fritz). 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 .
personal data
SURNAME Sedlak, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sedlak, Friedrich Franz (full name); Sedlak, Fritz (common name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian violinist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1977
Place of death Vienna