Karl Rudolf Karrasz

Karl Rudolf Karrasz (born January 15, 1846 in Hochpetsch , Austrian Empire , † November 2, 1912 in Temesvár , Kingdom of Hungary ) was a Romanian-German composer , pianist and music teacher .

Life

Karrasz attended the Riemon Music School in Brüx and was a student at the Prague Organ School from 1864. From 1868 he was choirmaster of the Orawitz Music and Choral Society, with which he performed four operettas in the first year, and worked as a music teacher. In 1872 he resigned his position in order to found his own music school in Timisoara. In addition to his teaching activities, he led the choir of the Timisoara Philharmonic Society, at times together with Wilhelm Franz Speer and with Martin Nováček . The successful choir director was also made an honorary member of the Lugoscher Musik- und Gesangverein (1879) and honorary choirmaster of the Fabrikstädter Gesang- und Musikverein.

In 1881 Karrasz founded the Banat Music and Singers Newspaper , the first of its kind in the region. In 1889 he opened the first licensed music education institute , where lessons in piano, violin, singing, harmony and composition were given. In the following year he was one of the founding members of the Timişoara Choral Society Typographia , of which he became President. In 1906 he became a piano teacher at the newly founded city music school.

At the age of eighteen, Karrasz already emerged as a pianist and organist. Later he often played the piano accompaniment in performances of the Timişoara Philharmonic Society. In 1875 he played Liszt's dramatic piano accompaniment to Mór Jókai's poem Des dead poet's love . 40 of Karrasz's more than 400 compositions are known - mostly choral works.

Web links

• Franz Metz : Karl Rudolf Karrasz . In: Edition Musik Südost