Leopold Spinner
Leopold Spinner (born April 26, 1906 in Lemberg ; † August 12, 1980 in London ) was an Austrian composer and editor who was born in Galicia and later lived in exile in Britain .
Life
Spinner's Austrian parents lived in Lviv at the time of his birth . From 1926 to 1930 he studied composition in Vienna with Paul Amadeus Pisk and received his doctorate as a musicologist. He then achieved international recognition both with his works, which were performed at the IGNM World Music Days , as well as through prizes. Nevertheless, from 1935 to 1938 he took lessons from Anton Webern again .
Spinner became one of the important representatives of the Second Viennese School . In 1939 he was forced to emigrate to England and spent the following years in Bradford , West Yorkshire . Then he worked as a music copyist and editor and in 1954 he moved to London. From 1958 until his retirement in 1975 he worked as an editor at Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, highly valued for his knowledge and accuracy by Igor Stravinsky, for example .
Fonts
- The recitative in the romantic opera to Wagner , dissertation (typewritten), Vienna 1931
- A Short Introduction to the Technique of Twelve-Tone Composition . Hawkes, London 1960
literature
- Günter Brosche : In memoriam Leopold Spinner: a musical documentation for his 80th birthday ; Exhibition in the Hoboken Hall of the Music Collection of the Austrian National Library, Vienna (until mid-March 1987). Vienna: Austrian National Library 1986. 31 S.: Ill., Notenbeisp. Work delay Leopold Spinner pp. 15-23.
- Regina Busch: Leopold Spinner (= Music of the Time: Documentations and Studies), Volume 6. Boosey & Hawkes, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8709-0206-X .
- Regina Busch, Inge Goodwin: The Identity of Leopold Spinner . In: Cambridge University Press (ed.): Tempo . No. 165, June 1988. JSTOR 945134 . doi : 10.1017 / S0040298200024074 . (Introduction also translated in Tempo magazine )
Web links
- Nikolaus Urbanek: Leopold Spinner in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM), as of January 29, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spinner, Leopold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1980 |
| Place of death | London |