Harald Goertz

Harald Goertz OBE (born October 31, 1924 in Vienna ; died February 10, 2019 ) was an Austrian conductor , pianist and music researcher.

Life

Goertz studied piano (with Friedrich Wührer ) and conducting (with Leopold Reichwein , Josef Krips and Hans Swarowsky ) at the Music Academy and German and English at the University of Vienna . In 1947 he received his doctorate at the University of Vienna on the relationship between Franz Grillparzer and Zacharias Werner . Then he worked as Kapellmeister a. a. with the Vienna Boys' Choir . He was also assistant to Herbert von Karajan at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He worked as music director in Ulm and as professor at the State University of Music Stuttgart . From 1949 he worked at the Vienna University of Music, where he became associate professor in 1972 and full professor for accompaniment and opera history in 1981 . In 1995 he retired . Until 1991 he also worked at the Vienna State Opera . From 1964 to 1997 he was the founding president of the Austrian Society for Music, and then its vice-president.

Goertz was married and the father of two children.

Mozart's poet Lorenzo Da Ponte: genius and adventurer . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-215-05646-1 .
Gerhard Wimberger . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-215-07700-0 (= Austrian composers of the 20th century . Vol. 25).
Music Handbook for Austria: Structure and Organization of the Austrian Music Industry. Names, addresses, information. A publication by the Austrian Music Council . 3rd improved edition, Doblinger, Vienna a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-900695-25-3 .
Austrian composers of our time . Edited by the Austrian Music Council, Bärenreiter, Kassel a. a. 1994 (= contributions from the Austrian Society for Music . Vol. 9)
Verdi for opera lovers: longitudinal cuts from Ai͏̈da to Zaccaria . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-205-99273-3 .
Ed .: Hanns Eisler Symposium on the 100th birthday of Hanns Eisler . Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1495-X (= contributions from the Austrian Society for Music . Vol. 10)
Mozart - Myth - Literature - Politics: an anthology . Doblinger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902667-20-5 (= contributions from the Austrian Society for Music . Vol. 13).

Elisabeth Th. Hilscher: Goertz, Harald. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
David M. Cummings (Ed.): International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory . 17th edition, Melrose Press, 2000, ISBN 0-948875-53-4 , p. 236.

personal data
SURNAME	Goertz, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian conductor, pianist and music researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	October 31, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	February 10, 2019