Herwig Reiter
Herwig Reiter (born June 26, 1941 in Waidhofen an der Thaya ) is an Austrian conductor and composer .
biography
Herwig Reiter comes from a family of musicians, his father Albert Reiter was also a music teacher and composer. He was initially an alto soloist with the Vienna Boys' Choir . Even before completing his studies, he was hired as Kapellmeister to the Vienna Boys' Choir, where he worked from 1963 to 1970.
From 1964 to 1980 he worked at a Viennese grammar school, where he and Gertraud Cerha and Roswitha Helmberg founded a type of school in which music and the visual arts play a preferred role. Until 2002 he was professor for didactics and conducting at the University of Applied Sciences , and later at the Vienna University of Music .
In addition, he worked at the Vienna University of Music as a conductor, production manager and was active as a speaker and juror at the federal youth singing in Spittal an der Drau . Reiter founded the Vienna Young Orchestra and the Webern Chamber Choir , which is now directed by Alois Glaßner . In Japan he is also known for tours and in Austria for broadcasts on the radio.
Since his retirement he has mainly devoted himself to his compositions. Herwig Reiter's compositions have been published on CD and his first opera Campiello was premiered by the Neue Oper Wien in 2010. Reiter also wrote two textbooks for music education ( listening and design ) and a choir book, for which he is known in the Austrian choir scene.
Awards
- 1987: Lower Austrian state award for services in the field of music education
- 2001: Erwin Ortner Prize to promote choral music in the form of a composition commission for an amateur choir
- 2003: Prize of the Republic of Austria for music
- 2007: Lower Austrian culture award in the music category
- 2011: Prize of the City of Vienna for Music
Works (selection)
- What do you do if ... Short piece for children's choir and orchestra, text by Peter Turrini (2013), world premiere at the Musikfest 2013 of the Vienna Music School .
- Campiello. Opera based on a libretto by Peter Turrini based on Carlo Goldoni (2010)
- Death on the moon , operelle (short opera, music time around 23 minutes) based on a libretto by Antonio Fian for the siren opera theater (2007)
- Lazy Edwin (2006)
- Choir book (1999-2004)
- Mandje, Mandje, Timpe Te (2003)
- Mass for St. Augustin (2002)
- Festival Music for Chiba (1999)
- Iba de gaunz oaman fraun (1995)
Web links
- Works by Herwig Reiter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Herwig Reiters website
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- ↑ Choir competition in Spittal ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Webern Chamber Choir ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Successor of the chamber choir of the Vienna University of Music founded by Reiter
- ↑ LH Pröll presented Lower Austria Culture Awards 2007 . APA notification dated November 24, 2007, accessed May 8, 2015.
- ↑ Prize winners - Prizes of the City of Vienna (accessed on February 9, 2017)
- ↑ Herwig Reiter - catalog raisonné . Retrieved August 10, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reiter, Herwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian conductor and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waidhofen an der Thaya |