Karl Grell (composer)

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Karl Grell (born September 5, 1925 in Vienna ; † September 6, 2003 there ) was an Austrian composer and conductor .

Life

Karl Grell took violin lessons at the age of eight, at 14 he founded a dance band with schoolmates, and one year later he began to play the clarinet. After graduating from high school and completing military service from 1943 to 1945, he studied musicology at the University of Vienna and the Vienna Conservatory, violin and clarinet, later composition with Hugo Zelzer and conducting with Kurt Wöss .

In addition to his engagements as a violinist in various dance orchestras, from 1949 he worked as an arranger for the radio station Rot-Weiß-Rot . From 1954 he worked as a freelance program designer at Radio Wien as well as assistant and arranger of Robert Stolz , for whom he arranged over 400 tracks. In total, Grell wrote over 1,600 arrangements.

In 1955 he founded the Vienna Soloist Orchestra for ORF , which he directed for around 30 years. From 1971 to 1986 he was department head for entertainment and folk music at Radio Wien, and from 1978 to 1990 he was a permanent guest conductor of the RTV orchestra of Radio Novi Sad . From 1990 to 1995 he directed the newly founded Vienna Conservatory Orchestra (VCO).

Grell died on September 6, 2003 at the age of 78 and was buried at the Hütteldorfer Friedhof (group 2, number G8).

At the corner of Daringergasse 10 and Traklgasse 12-16, there is a memorial stone for Karl Grell erected in 1958/59 according to plans by Josef Schuster in the Helmut-Qualtinger-Hof , where Karl Grell lived next to the namesake .

The Grellgasse in the Viennese district of Floridsdorf was named after Karl Grell in accordance with the resolution of the Vienna City Council Committee for Culture and Science on March 1, 2011.

Grell was married, daughter Renate Grell-Sturm (* 1953) is a pianist.

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Karl Grell: A life full of music . Belvedere Music Edition, 1985. DNB 891278281
  • Otto Fritz (editor): Karl Grell - My life song: memories, experiences, episodes in four movements, an introduction and a coda . Edition Steinbauer, 2005. ISBN 3-902494-08-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Musiklexikon - Grell family . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ biography on karlgrell.com ( Memento of 16 March 2014 Internet Archive ). Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ China Tango - composer: Karl Grell ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ friedhoefewien.at - Search for the dead . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  5. ^ New street names - Municipal Council Committee for Culture and Science, meeting of March 1, 2011 ( Memento of March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ Festive naming - Grellgasse, a thank you to the legend of popular music ( Memento from December 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  7. ^ Karl Grell: Mein Lebenslied ( Memento from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  8. ↑ a b List of the bearers of the badge of honor for services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  9. ^ Austrian Composers Association - Presidents and Honorary Members . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Grell, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grell, Karl Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 2003
Place of death Vienna