Josef Maria Horváth
Josef Maria Horváth (born December 20, 1931 in Pécs ; † October 21, 2019 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian composer and pianist of Hungarian origin. He was a professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
life and work
Horváth learned the organ at the Jesuit grammar school in Pécs, Hungary. In his hometown he was also a student of Jenő Takács . He then studied piano (with Péter Solymos ), conducting (with László Somogyi ) and composition (with Ferenc Szabó ) at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest. After graduating with distinction in 1956, he emigrated to Austria in the course of the Hungarian uprising , where he continued his studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg from 1957 to 1961 with Cesar Bresgen in composition and Kurt Leimer in piano and electronic music .
Until 1963 he worked as a concert pianist, since then he has mainly been active in composing. In 1962 he became a teacher for modern chamber music and in 1970 for theory and practice of new music at the Mozarteum. In 1979 he was appointed associate professor and in 1985 full professor. Together with the composers Andor Losonczy and Gerhard Wimberger , he founded the “Cooperative for Computer Music ” in Salzburg . He worked intensively in the studio for electronic music . Horváth, who lives in Salzburg, retired in 2000.
He composed a. a. for the ORF , the Salzburg Festival and the ensemble xx. century. The success of his work Redundanz 2 for string quartet gave him an international breakthrough. In 1972 his piece Melencolia I for violin and large orchestra was premiered on the piano by the ORF Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Milan Horvat and Ernst Kovacic as part of the IGNM Festival / Steirischer Herbst .
Awards
- Lilly Lehmann Medal of the International Mozarteum Foundation 1959
- First prize at the Jeunesses Musicales International Composers' Competition in Montréal in 1967
- Sponsorship award from the Theodor Körner Foundation 1968
- Promotion Prize for Music from the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts 1973
literature
- Barbara Boisits, Georg Demcisin: Horvath, Josef Maria. 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 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Josef Maria Horváth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Josef Maria Horváth at the Mozarteum
- Josef Maria Horváth at the music publisher Doblinger
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Suppan (author): Jenő Takács: Documents, Analyzes, Commentaries, Eisenstadt 1977, p. 123.
- ↑ a b c Walter Szmolyan : State Prize for Josef Maria Horváth, in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift , Volume 29 (1974), p. 623f.
- ↑ Irmfried Radauer : Enrichment or impoverishment: Possibilities of computer application in music using the example of the computer music computing center CMRS in Salzburg, in: Otto Breicha , Reinhard Urbach (ed.): Austria for example: literature, visual arts, film and music since 1968 , Salzburg 1982, pp. 385-387, here: p. 385.
- ^ Studio for Electronic Music: History , www.moz.ac.at, accessed on January 14, 2018.
- ^ Press department of the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts (ed.): Art Report 1973, Vienna, p. 20.
- ↑ outstanding artist awards , www.kunstkultur.bka.gv.at, accessed on January 14, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Horváth, Joseph Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-Hungarian composer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pécs |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 2019 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |