Karl Haidmayer

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Karl Haidmayer (born May 1, 1927 in Hollabrunn , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian composer and musicologist.

Life

After studying at the University of Graz (musicology and art history) doctorate Karl Haidmayer 1952 at hellmut federhofer with a dissertation on the Graz composer Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvar Dr. phil. He also studied composition and piano at the Graz Conservatory (Diploma 1954), as well as music theory at the Vienna Conservatory and the University of Vienna .

During his studies he was able to record his first successes as a composer. A trip to Romania in the early 1950s shaped the style of the following years, whereby Haidmayer's characteristic frequent use of the tritone or church tonal, especially Lydian, melody can be explained. Numerous concert tours as a pianist were followed by an appointment as professor at the Graz University of Music (most recently full professor for composition and music theory).

Memberships and functions

  • President of the Styrian Tonkünstlerbund (1979-93)
  • President of the music agitation Seeboden
  • President of the Board of Trustees of the Dombrowski Foundation of Styria

Prizes and awards

Music genre

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Piano music dominates the early work. After that, Haidmayer's compositional work was shaped by chamber music and orchestral works, and since the late 1970s he also turned to electronic music. In view of this diversity, a stylistic fixation of his musical work seems almost impossible. Nevertheless, certain significant characteristics stand out in Haidmayer's music: for example, his preference for distinctive rhythms and the melodies designed in large lines.

He once described his open style of music as follows:

I wrote in strict and free dodecaphony and made use of graphic notation, but I strive to come as close as possible to my tonal intentions. The rhythmic element is often in the foreground for me; I take the stand of a-thematic, motif-oriented, free tonal, but formally strict music. Nowadays my music is improvisationally unbound, stylistically completely free, not obliged to any fashion and above all in such a way that I personally like it and I am completely convinced of what I write. I don't care about the opinions of critics.

Works

18 symphonies, 4 chamber symphonies, 4 sinfoniettas, symphonic variations, sound images for symphonic wind orchestra, stage music, 40 so-called Film music (partly electronic) for ORF , 2 oratorios, cantatas, masses, numerous concertos for piano (3), flute (4), saxophone (2), viola etc. a., 10 quintets, 8 quartets, 10 trios, 14 Romîneascas, 11 piano sonatas, many sonatas for various instruments and piano, organ works, choral works, songs. The more than 400 compositions to date are listed in the so-called Pöschl directory (PV).

Performances of Karl Haidmayer's works took place in many parts of Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia. The world premiere of the 18th symphony took place on May 26, 2019 by the symphony orchestra of the Johann-Joseph-Fux Conservatory.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ring of Honor of the State of Styria presented to Karl Haidmayer: LH Schützenhöfer honored the composer's life's work on May 20, 2017, accessed on July 3, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Haidmayer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Hollabrunn