Horst Hajek

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Horst Hajek (born May 30, 1944 in Wels , Upper Austria ; † August 22, 2013 in Vienna ) was an Austrian musician and university professor. He was clarinetist with the Vienna Philharmonic and professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

Life

After his parents' apartment in Vienna was destroyed by air raids, they moved to Wels, where Horst Hajek was born on May 30, 1944. He attended compulsory school in Eferding, where he took recorder lessons at the age of eight and clarinet lessons from Karl Schatz from the age of ten. After finishing secondary school in 1958, he attended the teacher training college in Linz and continued clarinet lessons with Karl Schatz, albeit at the Linz Music School. In 1960 he switched to Rudolf Jettel's class at the Vienna Music Academy , where he passed the diploma examination with distinction in February 1965.

In May 1964 he had received an engagement with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg , but only belonged to the ensemble from January to July 1965 after he switched to the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera on September 1, 1965 due to another successful audition , whose first clarinetist he became in 1971 . On March 1, 1973 he was accepted into the Association of the Vienna Philharmonic , of which he remained until his retirement on January 1, 2007, 25 years of which as principal clarinet.

In 1978 he was appointed to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and from 1985 Hajek led a class in the clarinet concert as a full professor. He retired on September 30, 2012. Bernhard Heher was one of his students .

From 1966 to 1986 Hajek was a member of the Ensemble Kontrapunkte . With this formation he recorded chamber music by Béla Bartók, Alban Berg, Leoš Janáček, Arnold Schönberg and Igor Stravinsky for ORF .

Hajek died on August 22, 2013 at the age of 69 in Vienna after a long period of suffering from a serious illness and was buried on September 5, 2013 at the Mauer cemetery (group 45, row 1, number 11).

Awards

Horst Hajek's grave

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vienna Philharmonic: Two members are retiring . Article from January 20, 2007, accessed December 14, 2014.
  2. ^ University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna: Univ.Prof. Horst Hajek ( Memento from December 17, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Leonard Berstein Institute for Wind and Percussion Instruments - Institute report 2012 . Retrieved December 26, 2014.
  4. ^ The curriculum vitae of Bernhard Heher on the website of the Austrian Armed Forces . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  5. ↑ friedhoefewien.at - Search for the dead . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  6. ^ Vienna Philharmonic: In the summer of 2013, four long-time members of the Vienna Philharmonic died . Article dated September 16, 2013, accessed December 14, 2014.
  7. ^ University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna: Obituary Prof. Horst Hajek . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  8. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  9. ↑ a b Klaus Hubmann: Horst Hajek. 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 .
personal data
SURNAME Hajek, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian clarinetist and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Wels , Upper Austria
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 2013
Place of death Vienna