Hanns Jelinek

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Hanns Jelinek (born December 5, 1901 in Vienna ; † January 27, 1969 there ; pseudonyms: Hanns Elin , HJ Hirsch , Jakob Fidelbogen ) was an Austrian composer and music teacher .

Life

His father was a worker (machine operator, died 1917). At the age of 6 he received violin and at 7 piano lessons. In 1918 he becomes a member of the newly founded Communist Party of Austria . After participating in Arnold Schönberg's composition seminar at the Black Forest School in Vienna from 1918 to 1919, with a focus on counterpoint and harmony, and after taking private lessons with Schönberg's student Alban Berg , he began studying at the Vienna Music Academy in 1920 . His teacher was Franz Schmidt . However, in 1922 he broke off this course for financial reasons and continued to learn the composing profession as an autodidact.

Tomb of Hanns Jelinek

In order to be able to make a living as a freelance composer, from then on he appeared as a pianist in bars and cinemas and composed light music and hits under his pseudonym "Hanns Elin". Since 1934 (beginning with his 2nd String Quartet, Op. 13), all of his works with opus numbers have been written using the twelve-tone technique . In 1956, in his Three Blue Sketches op. 25, Jelinek combines dodecaphony and jazz .

It was not until 1958 that he took up a position as a teacher at the University of Music in Vienna. In 1965 he took over a professorship at the local university. Among his students: Petr Kotík , Gunnar Sønstevold , Walter Szmolyan , Igor Štuhec , Erich Urbanner , Bojidar Dimov and Heinz Karl Gruber .

He died in Vienna in 1969 and was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, number 22).

His compositional work includes, in addition to the "serious" compositions: 6 symphonies , 2 string quartets, songs , chamber music works , suites , canons also "light" genres as well as operettas , chansons and film music. The influence of his teacher Schönberg can be seen in the implementation of the twelve-tone technique in his compositions. Jelinek also wrote several music theory writings as part of his teaching activities at the Vienna University of Music, primarily on the subject of twelve-tone technique.

Awards

Works (selection)

Compositions

  • 13 little songs for voice and piano op.1 (1927)
  • Prelude, Passacaglia and Fugue for chamber orchestra op.4 (1922)
  • 3 chansons based on texts by Erich Kästner (1930)
  • 1st string quartet op.10 (1931)
  • Suite for string orchestra op.11 (1931)
  • Sinfonia concertante (Symphony No. 4) for string quartet and large orchestra op.12 (1931)
  • 2nd string quartet op. 13 (1934–35)
  • Bubi Caligula operetta (1947–53)
  • Twelve-tone opus 15 (1947–52)
  • Sinfonia brevis op. 16 (1948–50)
  • Concertino for strings op.17 (1951)
  • Fantasy for clarinet, piano and orchestra op.18 (1951)
  • Twelve-tone primer for piano op.21 (1953–54)
  • Sinfonia concertante (Symphony No. 6) op.22 (1953)
  • Part of the film music for Spring on the Ice with the Wiener Eisrevue (the other part was composed by Nico Dostal ) (1951)
  • Self-portrait of Marc Aurel for narrator and four instrumentalists op.24 (1954)
  • Sonata for violin op.27 (1956)
  • On the way: cantata based on words by Franz Kießling for soprano, vibraphone and double bass. op. 28 (1957)
  • Four songs based on poems by Franz Kiessling for medium voice and piano op.29 (1957)
  • The Dances around the Steel Blue Rose Ballet (1956-59)
  • Canon nuptiale for mixed choir (1959)
  • Ten tame Xenias for violin and piano op.32 (1960)
  • Rai Buba Etude for piano and large orchestra op.34 (1962)

Fonts

  • Musical witchcraft. In: Austrian music magazine . 6th year, 1951.
  • Instructions for twelve-tone composition plus all kinds of paralipomena. 2 volumes. Vienna 1952.
  • The cancer-like all-interval series. In: Archives for Musicology . 18th year, 1961.
  • Music in film and television. In: Austrian music magazine. 23rd year, 1968.

Film music

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian Art Senate - State Prize Winner - Hanns Jelinek
  2. ^ Arnold Schönberg Center
  3. ^ Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon
  4. Universal Edition catalog
  5. RICORDI Berlin - catalog
  6. ^ Film program Spring on the Ice 1951
  7. Roman Seeliger, Die Wiener Eisrevue - a dream faded away. hpt 1993
  8. ^ Roman Seeliger, Die Wiener Eisrevue. Once Austria's ambassador - today a legend. District Museum Vienna-Meidling 2008
  9. ^ Isabella Lechner, Die Wiener Eisrevue. Diploma thesis 2008, University of Vienna

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