Günter Kahowez

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Günter Kahowez (2012)

Günter Kahowez , also Günther, (born December 4, 1940 in Vöcklabruck ; † July 10, 2016 ) was an Austrian composer and university professor .

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Kahowez spent his childhood in Schörfling . After compulsory school he took piano , theory and composition lessons with Helmut Eder at the Bruckner Conservatory and graduated from the public teacher training college in Linz in 1960 .

Until 1966 he continued his music and composition studies with Richard Hochrainer , Hellmut Gottwald , Karl Schiske and Hanns Jelinek at the Vienna Music Academy and passed the final examination in composition with distinction. Between 1961 and 1969 he took part in the Darmstadt summer courses for new music several times . From 1968 to 1969 he completed a stay at the Austrian cultural institute there with a Rome scholarship.

Kahowez himself played from 1962 to 1964 as a percussionist in the ensemble Die Reihe and from 1966 to 1969 as a pianist, harpsichordist and drummer in the new ensemble of Alfred Peschek in Linz . From 1969 to 1975 he made music theater together with Gerhard Schmidinger as the ensemble Die Fremd .

During his work as a music artist for the Viennese music publisher Universal Edition , he was responsible for a number of well-known composers as an editor between 1969 and 1993 . From 1977 he was music editor in the company and from 1980 to 1982 head of the editorial department.

From 1988 to 1994 he had lectureships and in 1994 he was appointed to a chair at the Vienna University of Music , where he taught form theory and form analysis.

Several study trips took him to Italy, France, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Japan, USA and Mexico. After his retirement in 2006 he worked as a private scholar , writer and composer and returned to his home town of Schörfling.

Works (selection)

The compositions by Günter Kahowez were partly self-published and partly by the music publishers DAP-Edition (Verlag für neue Musik, Alfred Peschek), Linz, Doblinger , Linz, and Universal Edition , Vienna.

DAP Edition
  • New series u. a. with works by Günter Kahowez, from 1962
  • Pleiades I , cycle for piano, 1966
Music publisher Doblinger
  • String Quartet No. 1 op.12 , 1960
  • Serenade for 16 solo instruments op.24a, 1965/80
  • Serenade for chamber orchestra op.24b , 1965
  • Structures pour six instruments op.25 , 1965
  • Triple Partita for Organ op.51 , 1981
  • Prolationen II for large orchestra op.54 , 1981
  • Wind quintet No. 2 op.52 , 1982
  • Choron - Charon for violoncello and piano , 1988/89
Universal Edition
  • Bardo-Puls , music based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead for 11 instrumentalists, 1973/74
  • Feuerrose , for string quartet, 1991
  • Schleedoyer I , for string quartet, 1991
  • Pan flute folklore album , for 1 to 2 pan flutes with guitar (accordion, organ) and drums, undated

Publications

  • Karl Schiske - an extraordinary teacher of composition. Memories of an age in the golden section , in: Karl Schiske, Musical Documentation, Music Collection of the Austrian National Library, Institute for Music Documentation (publisher), Vienna, 1991, p. 16ff.
  • For Karl Schiske , International Symposium, November 11th to 13th, 1999, Speeches and Writings 5, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Vienna 2000
  • With Rüdiger Opelt and Bruno Kahowez: In the shadow of the warrior. Father and son, in battle, in death and in life. On the psychopathology of the children of fallen National Socialists . Winkler, Bochum 2010, ISBN 978-3-89911-128-6

Awards

media

  • Franz Lettner: Artist at work, The composer Günter Kahowez , Tagblatt, No. 206, Linz, 1965
  • Ursula Strubinsky: Time-tone portrait. Günter Kahowez , in: ORF Ö1 from December 6, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna: Condolence Günter Kahowez . Retrieved July 26, 2016.
  2. ^ Günter Kahowez, in: Website of the Doblinger Musikverlag