Leopold Daxsperger

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Leopold Daxsperger (born November 11, 1896 in Raab ; † October 17, 1963 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian pedagogue , organist , conductor and composer of works from the late Romantic period .

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He spent his high school as a choirboy in the St. Florian monastery , at the Wilhering collegiate high school and in upper school at the high school in Ried im Innkreis , where he led the student orchestra and graduated in 1916 . He did military service until 1918 .

At the University of Vienna he studied geography , history and musicology and received his doctorate in 1922. From 1924 he was initially a high school teacher in Graz . There he became a pioneer in conducting radio worship services with his students. In 1927 he moved to Vienna, where he studied part-time at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts Vienna . He deepened his musical knowledge with the Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén . In 1930 he passed the teaching examination in music education . He graduated from Kapellmeisterschule in 1932 with Alexander Wunderer , Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Oswald Kabasta . From 1929 to 1932 he was a student of Max Springer and Franz Schmidt at the master school for composition.

In the 1930s he directed major performances at the Wiener Musikverein , in which up to 400 of his middle school students took part. In 1937 the Musikvereinssaal was the site of the premiere of his award-winning cantata From Vanity on Earth .

In 1947, after a serious illness, he began teaching at the Schärding grammar school. He performed the great works of Anton Bruckner with the Innviertel Choir Association he founded . In 1953 he became a specialist inspector for music education. As chairman of the ARGE Oberösterreichisches Musikschulwerk in the Volksbildungswerk, he played a major role in the development of the Upper Austrian music school system and until 1961 was the chairman of the regional commission for the Upper Austrian music schoolwork at the regional school board. The listening education concerts with the orchestra of the Linzer Landestheater , which were attended by around 15,000 high school students, are a special achievement .

In 1931 he married his wife Friederike. The son Peter, born in 1940, died of asthma at the age of 24 . His younger brother was the Linz cathedral organist and director of the Bruckner Choir, Ludwig Daxsperger . The family grave is in Zell an der Pram , his estate is archived in the library of the Upper Austrian State Museum .

Works

Of his three string quartets, as well as the 16 Latin proprien songs and 18 secular vocal works, only the cantata Von der Eitelkeit auf Erden is occasionally performed.

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SURNAME Daxsperger, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, conductor, music teacher and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Raab (Upper Austria)
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1963
Place of death Salzburg