Karl Schiske

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Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske (born February 12, 1916 in Győr ; † June 16, 1969 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer and composition teacher.

Life

His birthplace Győr in what is now western Hungary was still part of the Danube Monarchy in 1916. In 1919 the family moved first to Orth an der Donau in Lower Austria and in 1923 to Vienna. Attended grammar school in Albertgasse, where he met his lifelong friend and later painter Carl Unger . From 1932 he received composition lessons from Ernst Kanitz, a pupil of Franz Schreker, and in 1939 passed his final exams in composition at the Vienna Music University as an external student. In addition, he studied musicology, art history, philosophy and physics at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1942 on the use of dissonance in Bruckner's symphonies. He received his training as a pianist with Roderich Bass and Julius Varga at the New Vienna Conservatory and with Hans Weber at the Vienna Music Academy.

From 1939 onwards, while he was still a student, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Steinbauer Quartet performed his early works in the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus .

In 1940 he was drafted into the German Wehrmacht , during which time he was also able to compose.

His main work, the oratorio Vom Tode , dedicated to his brother Hubert, who died near Riga in 1944 , was created under the influence of the Second World War . It was premiered in 1948 under Karl Böhm in the Wiener Konzerthaus.

After the end of the war he lived as a freelance composer in Vienna with longer stays in Upper Austria, Styria, Salzburg and Orth an der Donau. Schiske's patron and sponsor at that time was Rita Schuller von Götzburg from Großsölk / Styria, to whom Schiske dedicated a large number of compositions.

His most fruitful creative phase began after the war, including his Symphonies No. 2 to 4, the chamber concert for orchestra and a large number of chamber music works, until 1952 he received an appointment as a composition teacher from the Vienna University of Music. In the same year he was awarded the professional title of professor and the Austrian State Prize (for the oratorio Vom Tode ) by the Federal President . Internationally, he co-founded an electronic music studio in 1957 and held a visiting professorship at the University of California, Riverside in 1966 and 1967 . In 1962 he was finally appointed associate professor in Vienna. He was a board member of IGNM Austria.

His students included Erich Urbanner , Iván Eröd , Gösta Neuwirth , Kurt Schwertsik , Otto M. Zykan , Charles Boone and Luca Lombardi .

Schiske had been married to Berta Baumhackl since 1954 and had four children. He died on June 16, 1969 at the age of only 53 of a cerebral haemorrhage and was buried in the local cemetery in Orth an der Donau.

Works (selection)

Karl Schiske's grave
  • Concerto for piano and orchestra , op.11
  • Sonata for violin and piano , op.18 (1943/48)
  • On death , oratorio, op.25
  • Psalm 99 , op.30

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ outstanding artist award - music ( Memento from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 28, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Schiske, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schiske, Karl Hubert Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Győr
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1969
Place of death Vienna