Hans Gillesberger

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Hans Gillesberger
Memorial plaque for the winners of the Mozart Medal in the Deutschordenshof in Vienna

Hans Gillesberger (born November 29, 1909 in Ebensee , Upper Austria , † March 4, 1986 in Vienna ) was an Austrian choir director . He is considered to be one of the most important choir conductors of the post-war period, who trained and shaped several generations of Austrian musicians and music educators in his educational work.

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Between 1918 and 1925, Hans Gillesberger was Kapellknabe at the Salzburg Cathedral . From 1920 to 1928 he attended the Humanist Gymnasium Borromäum Salzburg , where he received music lessons from J. Messner. Between 1926 and 1928 he led the institute choir at the Borromäum. This was followed by training at the Music Academy in Vienna with Josef Lechthaler , Ferdinand Grossmann and Karl Josef Walter , where he passed the teaching examination for music in 1940. He then studied law in Innsbruck and Vienna with a doctorate in 1946. Since 1929 he was a member of the Catholic student association AV Austria Innsbruck and since 1934 of the KÖStV Aargau Vienna in the ÖCV .

From 1935 Gillesberger worked as the Regens Chori at the Piarist Church in Vienna . Between 1939 and 1942 he was in charge of the Vienna Bach Community. From 1942 to 1945 he was Kapellmeister of the Vienna Boys' Choir . In 1945 Hans Gillesberger founded the Wiener Kantorei. Between 1945 and 1953 he was the deputy choir director at the Vienna State Opera . From 1947 to 1980 he was a professor at the Academy of Music in Vienna (church and school music), where he had been a full professor since 1968. There he taught many important choir directors and conductors (including Erwin Ortner and Raimund Hug ).

The Nazi era was a very eventful period for Hans Gillesberger and the Vienna Boys' Choir. Quotation from the book “I serve the song, my city is called Vienna”. Vienna Boys Choir 1938–1945: “On March 13th, on which the glorious“ homecoming ”to the Reich was celebrated with solemn unity, Gillesberger also conducted the“ Vienna Boys Choir Concert ”in the Musikverein building. Even on this day of remembrance was the chorus not a single "Nazi song" heard. " (Grobauer, p 231)

Honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery

From 1953 to 1968 Gillesberger was choir director of the Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft and as such director of the Wiener Singakademie and the Wiener Kammerchor . Under his direction, both choirs reached international standards. He initiated numerous concerts and world premieres (including works by Johann Nepomuk David , Anton Heiller , Paul Hindemith ), traveled abroad and obtained many recordings. From 1964 he was artistic director of the Vienna Boys' Choir and from 1971 artistic director of the court orchestra .

Hans Gillesberger was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 47 F, Row 14, No. 6).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inscription Deutschordenshof, Singerstraße: 1966 Hans Gillesberger (accessed June 7, 2014)
  2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Gillesberger, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian choir director
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebensee
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1986
Place of death Vienna