Leopold Spitzer (vocal teacher)

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Leopold Spitzer (born May 28, 1942 in Bad Ischl ) is an Austrian emeritus university professor for singing. Spitzer is President of the International Hugo Wolf Society and editor-in-chief of the Hugo Wolf Complete Edition .

career

Leopold Spitzer grew up in Ebensee ( Upper Austria ) as the sixth of eight children in a working-class family. He graduated from the humanistic grammar school Kollegium Petrinum in Linz and began studying German language and literature, music pedagogy, musicology, singing and later vocal pedagogy in Vienna in 1962 . He completed it between 1966 and 1971. From 1966 to 1970 he taught music at high schools in Vienna. In 1972 he became an assistant at the Institute for Basic Harmonic Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

In 1973 he moved to the Department of Singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna as a professor of music theory and solfeggio . In 1980 he was appointed associate professor and in 1984 full professor. He retired on October 1, 2010.

Leopold Spitzer has been married to AHS teacher Lilo Jancik since 1964 . The two have three children (Katharina * 1965, Bernadette * 1973, Theresa * 1976).

Management functions

In 1978 Leopold Spitzer founded the vocal pedagogy symposia of the Austrian music academies and headed them until 1996. From 1978 to 1992 he was the university's building officer for the adaptation of the angular tract in the new institute building in Penzingerstrasse and the new studio stage. From 1984 to 1986 he headed the Institute for Cultural Management and the Study Commission, and from 1993 to 1996 the Institute for Breath and Voice Education. From 1980 to 1986 and from 1990 to 1994 he headed the department for solo singing and musical dramatic performance at the Vienna University of Music. From 1998 to 2002 he was deputy head of department, then head of the institute for another six years. Since 1988 he has been President of the International Hugo Wolf Society in Vienna, and since 1991 editor-in-chief of the Hugo Wolf Complete Edition.

activities

Spitzer gave numerous lectures - especially on Hugo Wolf - at congresses and symposia. He was a juror at the competitions Acquasparta (1983), Leoben (1983), Vienna (1984, 1985), Nowy Soncz (1993, 2001), Stuttgart (1988, 1990, 1994), Duszniki Zdroi (1996), Graz (1997) , Vienna (1997–2000), gave numerous interpretation courses on the German song from 1983 to 2009 and led masterclasses in Germany and other European countries. 2002/2003 developed the scientific concept for the redesign of the Hugo Wolf Museum in Perchtoldsdorf .

Andreas Dorschel describes Spitzer as "one of the best experts on Hugo Wolf's life and work and author of an excellent biography of the composer" .

Awards

Publications (selection)

In addition to articles in the specialist press on university policy and organizational issues, he published papers and magazine articles on harmony and vocal pedagogy.

Harmony
  • The harmonic in the conception of music Rainer Maria Rilkes, Vol. 6 of the "Contributions to harmonic basic research", Vienna 1974
  • The harmonic symbolism of Albert Frh. Von Thimus. A contribution to the history of harmony., Vol. 8 of "Contributions to basic research in harmony", Vienna 1978
Vocal pedagogy
  • Ear training: interval or style-related phrase? In: Materials and documents from music education. Ed. J. Mayr-Kern, Vol. 6, Regensburg 1978
  • Problems of singing education . Reports on the vocal pedagogy symposia in Schielleiten and Bad Ischl. Edited by Leopold Spitzer. 5 volumes, Vienna 1978, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986;
Publications about Hugo Wolf
  • Rosa Mayreder's text book for Hugo Wolf's "Manuel Venegas". In: ÖMZ, 28th year (1973), issue 10
  • Hugo Wolf's Manuel Venegas. In: ÖMZ, Volume 32 (1977), Issue 2
  • The Hugo Wolf competitions for song singers. In: 25 Years of the International Hugo Wolf Society Vienna, ed. L. Spitzer, Vienna 1980
  • Hugo Wolf's way to the Mörike songs. In: 100 years of Mörike-Wolf, ed. H. Höll, Stuttgart 1988
  • Droga Hugona Wolfa do piesni Eduard Mörikego. In: Akademia Muzyczna im. Karola Lipinskiego, Zeszyt Naukowy No. 50, Wrocław 1989
  • Rosa Mayreder and Hugo Wolf. In: Rosa Mayreder and feminism in Vienna around 1900, ed. R. Witzmann, Vienna 1989
  • Hugo Wolf - past and future. In: Hugo Wolf med Slovenci, Slovenj Gradec 1990
  • Notes on the musical structure of Wolf's opera "Der Corregidor". In: Glasba in Poezija, ed. P. Kuret, J. Strajnar, Ljubljana 1990
  • Hugo Wolf. In: Treasury of Carinthia, catalog for the state exhibition St. Paul 1991 * Hugo Wolf and Ebensee. In: Auf Sommerfrische in Ebensee, ed. B-Tracht Ebensee, 1991
  • Hugo Wolf's last days in the Salzkammergut. In: Salzkammergut-Zeitung, October 2, 1998 * ... a maniac who composed. In: Art Points No. 17/1999
  • Hugo Wolf's "The Corregidor". Facts and dates. Vienna 2000
  • “I'm just finished”. The creative crisis in Wolf's work (1892–94), in: ÖMZ, 58th year (2003), issue 1
  • Hugo Wolf. Work and life. Vienna 2003 (Holzhausen)
  • Hugo Wolf's works for string quartet (complete CD recording by the Hugo Wolf Quartet, March 2004)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ International Hugo Wolf Society, Vienna
  2. ^ Hugo Wolf Museum
  3. ^ Andreas Dorschel , Review of: Hugo Wolf. Letters 1873 - 1901. 4 vol. ' Austrian music magazine LXVI (2011), no. 6, p. 89

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Spitzer, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian university professor for singing
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Ischl