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Stefan Ikarus Kaiser (born July 3, 1978 in Linz ) is an Austrian musicologist , organist and composer .

Life

Ikarus Kaiser studied after graduation at Stiftsgymnasium Wilhering initially philosophy and theology at the KTU Linz . He then completed music studies at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz ( music theory with Gunter Waldek , piano with Horst Matthaeus, choir direction with Kurt Dlouhy ) as well as church music training at the Diocesan Conservatory in Linz. After studying musicology and classical philology at the universities of Salzburg and Vienna as well as a two-year study visit to Rome as a scholarship holder of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Upper Austrian provincial government , he received his doctorate in 2004 with Gernot Gruber in Vienna and Wolfgang Speyer in Salzburg with a thesis on the Greek music theorist Aristoxenus of Taranto . The Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture awarded Ikarus Kaiser an appreciation prize for his academic studies in 2001. In 2007 he also received the dissertation award from the University of Vienna.

In 2001 he was appointed organist of the Cistercian Abbey of Wilhering , where he has also been head of the monastic music archive since 2010. As a research fellow at the Diocesan Archives in Linz and later at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, he researched and cataloged the holdings of numerous other music archives for the International Library of Music ( RISM ).

Ikarus Kaiser is the author of numerous musicological articles on Upper Austrian music history. Concerts and scientific lectures have taken him outside of Austria to Germany , the Czech Republic , Italy and South Korea . From 2016 to 2018 he initiated and supervised the restoration of the two historic organs of the Wilhering collegiate church by the organ building company Kuhn AG .

His annual stays of several months as a keeper on a high mountain pasture in the Styrian Salzkammergut were reported several times in television documentaries as well as in domestic and foreign print media. Ikarus Kaiser is also active as an active speleologist with a passed exam as a cave guide.

Publications

Monographs

Editorships

  • Matthias Pernsteiner, Messa posta in musica. Linz 2016 (= sacred music in Wilhering Abbey, 1).
  • Karl Waldeck, Organ Works (together with P. Maximilian Bak OCist ). Linz 2018 (= sacred music in Wilhering Abbey, 2).

Articles in journals and edited volumes (selection)

  • The history of the organ in St. Margarethen . In: Parish Linz-St. Margarethen (Ed.): The "Breinbauer-Orgel" from Linz-St. Margarethen. Linz 2000, pp. 6-7.
  • The Linz cathedral music director Karl Waldeck (1841–1905) and his connection to Wilhering Abbey. In: Annual report of the Stiftsgymnasium Wilhering. 92, 2002, pp. 16-24.
  • The Salzburg serenade tradition of Mozart's time. A contribution to the memory of the works of forgotten Austrian composers of the 18th century. In: Anton Bruckner Private University (ed.): Querstand I. Linz 2005, pp. 165–176.
  • Aristoxenus of Tarentum (4th century B.C.). Musical Theory in the Tradition of the Late Ancient World. In: Teologická fakulta Trnavskej univerzity (ed.): Počiatky krest'anskej hudby v Európe. Bratislava 2005, pp. 83-88.
  • Rediscovered musical rarities in church archives in Upper Austria. A new beginning in the development of scattered sources on music history. In: Anton Bruckner Private University (ed.): Querstand II. Linz 2006, pp. 11–47.      
  • The esteem of the traditional in ancient and Byzantine music theory. In: Anton Bruckner Private University (Ed.): Querstand III. Linz 2007, pp. 61-67.
  • The cathedral and parish bandmaster Karl Borromäus Waldeck and the organ of the parish church in Linz. In: Elisabeth Maier (Ed.): Anton Bruckner as a cathedral and city parish organist. Vienna 2009, pp. 369–392.
  • August Göllerich (1859–1923): pianist, conductor, music teacher and music writer. For the 150th birthday of a Linz musician of international standing. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Year 63, Linz 2009, Issue 1–2, pp. 69–92, PDF on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at
  • The fragment from the second book of "Rhythmic Elements" by Aristoxenus from Taranto. New German translation. In: Anton Bruckner Private University (ed.): Querstand IV. Linz 2009, pp. 133–143.
  • Cave exploration between Brunnwiese and Wildensee . A report on discoveries in the years 2008–2009 in the western Toten Gebirge , Styria. In: Messages from the Association for Speleology in Upper Styria. 27-28 (2009), pp. 73-78.      
  • Johann Baptist Schiedermayr (1779–1840). An important musical personality in the circle of Archduke Maximilian Joseph . In: Ewald Volgger (Ed.): Archduke Maximilian Joseph of Austria-Este. Linz 2014, pp. 269–279.
  • The late baroque music practice in the Upper Austrian Cistercian Abbey of Wilhering. A source-oriented study of the traditional repertoire of the monastic music archive. In: Archives for Musicology. 72, 2015, issue 3, pp. 181–187.

Compositions

Organ solo

  • Meditatio de versibus Pauli Gerhardi e nonagesimo psalmo Davidi (1993)
  • Toccata et Fuga (ca.1993)
  • Toccata et Fuga (ca.1994), four hands
  • Da pacem, domine . Choral prelude and chorale setting (1994)
  • Toccata et Ricercar modernum (approx. 1995)
  • Toccata super "Da pacem Domine" (1995, composed and premiered on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Wilhering Abbey High School)
  • Daedalus et Icarus (approx. 1995), organ pedal solo
  • Psalmós sýnedetos toîs parembólimois heptá (Psalm with four interludes, approx. 1996)

Choir and organ

Piano solo

  • Stígme chrónou toú bíou anthrópinou (A moment in human life, 1994)
  • Avis, defensor musicae generosae? (1994)
  • Hépta ôdai (Seven Odes , 1995)

Solo voice and piano

  • Ékstasis pótnia (Hehre Ecstasy) for baritone and piano (1995)
  • Melète perì tôn proterôn logôn toû euaggelìou kata Ioánnen (meditation on the first words of the Gospel according to John ) for baritone and piano (1995)

Clarinet solo

  • Sonata (1995)
    • Allegro - Adagio ma non troppo - De antiphona Cisterciense: Un poco Allegro

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personal data
SURNAME Emperor, Icarus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emperor, Stefan Icarus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musicologist, organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz