Helmut Zehetmair

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Helmut Zehetmair (* 16th June 1935 in Attnang-Puchheim , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian musician , music teacher and emeritus professor at the University Mozarteum .

Life

Zehetmair obtained his Matura at the teacher training college in Linz in 1954 . He completed a music degree at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg . He studied instrumental music with Cesar Bresgen (diploma 1956), violin with Filiberto Estrela and Franz Samohyl (diploma 1957), chamber orchestra with Bernhard Paumgartner and school music education with Eberhard Preussner and Anton Dawidowicz (diploma 1958).

From 1957 to 1959 Zehetmair took part in the European Seminar of Early Music in Bruges under Safford Cape .

He completed his dissertation in musicology in 1965 at the University of Innsbruck with Wilhelm Fischer and Hans Zingerle on the subject of "Johann Michael Haydn's chamber music works á quattro and á cinque".

Artistic and educational activity

From 1954 to 1960 Helmut Zehetmair was primary violinist in the Camerata Academica of the Mozarteum under the direction of Bernhard Paumgartner and Antonio Janigro . In 1960 he became a member of the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra .

He carried out his first teaching activity from 1961 to 1973 as a music professor at grammar schools and at the Pedagogical Academy in Salzburg . During this time he also wrote school radio series for ORF .

From 1974 to 2003 Zehetmair was a university professor for violin, viola and chamber music at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. Furthermore, from 1973 to 1979 he was head of the institute for “Comparative Music Education”, head of the first study commission for all instrumental subjects and organizer of the institute's own instrumental competitions.

In 2004 Helmut Zehetmair retired from the Mozarteum, but continues to teach and research. He bears the title of Professor emeritus venia docendi .

Since 1974 he has been a lecturer at the Salzburg Summer Academy , the Bavarian Music Academy Marktoberdorf and guest lecturer at the University of Taipei / Taiwan and the Altensteiger Summer Music . From 1996 to 2000 Zehetmair was visiting professor at the University of Art in Graz .

His students include well-known soloists , chamber musicians , concert masters and educators such as Thomas Zehetmair , Lukas Hagen , Veronika Hagen , Oswald Sallaberger , and Lena Neudauer .

Zehetmair also founded the Salzburger Musici chamber orchestra in 1979 and was violist in the Salzburg string quartet .

Publications

  • "Ear training and hearing training", in the journal Musikbildung , Österreichischer Bundesverlag , Vienna (1972)
  • "Violin lessons in small groups", in the magazine Musikbildung , Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna (1973)
  • "On the practice of coordinated and cooperative music education", in the journal Musikbildung , Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna (1976)
  • "Instrumental playing and music education", violin edition, Helbling-Verlag , Innsbruck (1973)
  • "Hearing and violins according to Suzuki" (with Bruno Steinschaden), Heinrichshofen-Verlag, Wilhelmshaven (1982)
  • "Transcendence in Violin Education ", in ESTA News (1985)
  • String quartets and string quintets by Johann Michael Haydn, Doblinger Music Publishing House , Vienna
  • String trios by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Musikverlag Doblinger, Vienna (1973-88)

Awards

Current research interests

Investigations:

  • on the scientific foundations of music-making practice,
  • of practicing
  • the work interpretation
  • the integration of knowledge and imaginative design,
  • training opportunities for networking between “head, heart and hand” (cf. H. Pestalozzi ),
  • a systematic violin technique
  • Preparation of the correspondence with Ljerko Spiller and Ruggiero Ricci

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 Zehetmair, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Attnang-Puchheim , Upper Austria