Gosta Neuwirth

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Gösta Neuwirth (born January 6, 1937 in Vienna ) is an Austrian composer and musicologist .

Life

Neuwirth comes from a musical family; the pianist Harald Neuwirth is his brother, the composer Olga Neuwirth his niece. He studied composition with Karl Schiske at the Vienna University of Music and music and theater studies at the University of Vienna . After a brief activity as a journalist at the Graz "Neue Zeit" , he continued his studies at the Free University of Berlin with Adam Adrio , since the Viennese professor of musicology Erich Schenk his dissertation topic ( Franz Schreker and his opera Der ferne Klang ) with an anti-Semitic Motivation had declined. In 1968 he received his doctorate in Berlin with the work Die Harmonik in the opera “Der ferne Klang” by Franz Schreker .

From 1968 to 1970 Neuwirth worked in the Mendelssohn archive of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and from 1970 to 1972 he worked for the Schönberg Complete Edition . From 1973 to 1982 Neuwirth headed the electronic studio at the Graz University of Music and held lectures on music history at the university and music academy.

From 1982 to 2000 he was professor for the history of music theory at the Berlin University of the Arts , and since 2009 he has been an honorary professor at the University of Freiburg .

Numerous renowned composers, including Bernhard Lang , Peter Ablinger , Georg Friedrich Haas , Arnulf Herrmann , Isabel Mundry , Hanspeter Kyburz , Orm Finnendahl , Enno Poppe , Stepha Schweiger and Oliver Korte , are among his students. For his 70th birthday, the " Styriarte 2007" organized a homage with his and Schreker's works. For the 80th birthday, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Donaueschingen organized a concert with works by Neuwirth and his teacher Karl Schiske and his students Peter Ablinger and Martin Kapeller. At the same time a new version of his composition Piss-Pott or Pot of Pieces - 22 miniatures for piano was published.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Franz Schreker , Vienna 1959
  • Parsifal and the musical Art Nouveau , in: Richard Wagner . Work and Effect , ed. by Carl Dahlhaus (= Studies on the History of Music in the 19th Century , Volume 26), Regensburg 1971, pp. 179–198
  • The harmonics in the opera " Der ferne Klang " by Franz Schreker , Regensburg 1972
  • Arnold Schönberg , from one day to the next . Text and sketches , ed. by Gösta Neuwirth (= Arnold Schönberg, Complete Works , Section 111, Stage Works , Series B, Rd. 7 / I), Mainz 1972. Critical report on this (with Tadeusz Okuljar), Mainz 1974
  • Alexander Zemlinsky's "Six songs for a medium voice based on texts by Maurice Maeterlinck " op. 12 and Franz Schreker's "Five songs for a deep voice". A comparison , in: Alexander Zemlinsky. Tradition around the Vienna School (=  Studies on Valuation Research , Volume 7), Vienna 1976, pp. 111–119
  • Wozzeck I, 1. Form disposition and musical material , in: 50 years Wozzeck by Alban Berg . History and effects in opera aesthetics (= Studies on Valuation Research , Volume 10), Vienna 1978, pp. 46–56
  • On the Alexander Scriabin Renaissance , in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift , vol. 33 (1978), pp. 421–435
  • Der late Schreker and An Unknown Song Schrekers , in: Franz Schreker. At the beginning of New Music (= studies on valuation research , volume 11), Vienna 1978, pp. 106–114
  • Schönbergs George-Lieder op. 19. The drafts for the XIV. Lied , in: Report on the Congress of the International Schönberg Society Vienna 1974 , ed. by Rudolf Stephan , Vienna 1978, pp. 147–158
  • Symbol and form , in: Johann Joseph Fux , Litaneien, Vespern, Kompletorien (Complete Works, Volume 2.2), Kassel 1979, pp. X – XV
  • Music around 1900 , in: Art nouveau. Art Nouveau and Music , ed. by Jürg Stenzl , Zurich 1980, pp. 89–133
  • ROTAS - SATOR. For Ernst Krenek on August 23, 1980 , in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift , vol. 35 (1980), pp. 461–472. Reprinted in: Ernst Krenek ( Music Concepts , Volume 39/40), Munich 1984, pp. 78–91
  • Foreword, in: Franz Schreker, Chamber Symphony in One Movement , Vienna 1981, pp. II – VII
  • Topics and time structures in Alban Berg's chamber concert , in: Alban Berg Symposion Vienna 1980. Conference report , Vienna 1981, pp. 161–170
  • Narration of numbers , in: Josquin des Prés (= music concepts , volume 26/27), Munich 1982, pp. 4–38
  • Comments on some of Ernst Krenek's later works , in: Ernst Krenek (= Studies on Valuation Research , Volume 15), Vienna 1982, pp. 202–215. Reprinted in: Ernst Krenek ( Music Concepts , Volume 39/40), Munich 1984, pp. 149–160
  • The twelve-tone speakers. Music in strangeness and isolation , in: The larger Austria. Intellectual and Social Life from 1880 to the Present , ed. by Kristian Sotriffer, Vienna 1982, pp. 204–207
  • The search for the ultimate unreality , in: Anton Webern (= Music Concepts Special Volume, Volume 1), Munich 1983, pp. 262–268
  • Webern's speech. Wahn & Witz, with limited liability , in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift , vol. 38 (1983), pp. 614–619; Reprinted in: Anton Webern (= Music Concepts Special Volume, Volume 2), Munich 1984, pp. 112-136
  • On the history of the 4th Symphony , in: Mahler Interpretation. Aspects of the work and work of Gustav Mahler , ed. by Rudolf Stephan , Mainz 1985, pp. 105-110
  • Erda-Scenen , in: Richard Wagner. Tristan and Isolde (= music concepts , volume 57/57), Munich 1987, pp. 135–153
  • The fathers are mortal , in: Contributions to musicology , vol. 32 (1990), pp. 63–66
  • Kehraus des Schöne Wahns , in: 1913. Departure into our world. Essays on art, music, literature and architecture , Vienna 1993, pp. 50–97
  • Suite , in: tones, colors, shapes. On Music and the Fine Arts , ed. by Elisabeth Schmierer u. a., Laaber 1995, pp. 203-221

Works (selection)

  • Requiem , 1956
  • Homage to Mahler , 1966
  • The Garden of Paths that Branch , 1975
  • String Quartet , 1976
  • Pisspott or Pot of Pieces , 1973–1981, new version 2017
  • A true story , 1981 (chamber opera)
  • Six chants based on texts by Maurice Maeterlinck , 1995

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personal data
SURNAME Neuwirth, Gosta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna