Marija Sklad-Sauer

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Marija Sklad-Sauer (born May 11, 1935 in Crvenka , Kingdom of Yugoslavia , as Marija Sklad ; † October 4, 2014 in Vienna , Austria ) was a Yugoslav-Austrian vocal teacher and singer .

Life and career

Marija Sklad was born as the fifth child of a Polish and a Hungarian woman from Budapest , who lived in the Batschka in the former Yugoslavia .

She received her musical training in Belgrade , Zagreb and Vienna. In 1956 she graduated from the Department of Theory and Teaching of the “Stankovič” Music School in Belgrade. Then she finished her music education at the Pedagogical University in Zagreb. In 1966 she received her diploma in solo singing (concert and opera subject) in the class of Professor Lav Vrabanić at the Zagreb Music Academy .

At the age of 21 Sklad began her educational work in Osijek as a music teacher and choir director. Afterwards she worked for some time at the radio in Zagreb and went to Vienna in 1967 to continue her studies of "speaking and singing voice", which she had begun in 1961, in the class of Professor Henriette Clanner von Engelshofen. In Vienna she also began her career as a mezzo-soprano . At the same time she continued her artistic training with Kammersängerin Hilde Konetzni . She married and took the name Sklad-Sauer.

She especially devoted herself to roles in Mozart's and Wagner's operas. She has made guest appearances in Austria, Belgium, France and Germany, where she was a soloist at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe . Her best-known roles from this period are that of Ulrica from Verdi's Un ballo in maschera and that of Princess Eboli from his Don Carlos .

Parallel to her singing career, Marija Sklad-Sauer began to work scientifically (scientific-theoretical art singing , diagnostics and pedagogy of voice training). At the height of her singing career she devoted herself to music education , especially the problem of singing technique, i. H. the shaping of the voice and hearing phenomena. She pays special attention to the sick voice and the therapeutic care of the sick voice. She also saw her singing career as part of her educational research.

She was appointed professor at the Vienna Conservatory , where she taught solo singing from 1985 to 2000. Her students included Ansgar Hüning (vocal studies with Sklad-Sauer: 1989–1992) and Camille Lopez-Molina (studies from 1996 to 2001).

In the celebratory speech of the Golden Medal of Merit awarded to her by the State of Vienna, it was noted that “the success of her students strengthened the reputation of the Vienna Music Schools, and in this case especially that of the Conservatory, as a high-class music training facility and thus also recognized Vienna's image as worldwide Music City was strengthened. "

In September 2006 Sklad-Sauer celebrated her 50th anniversary "as a voice trainer at various institutes around the globe" and gave a vocal performance in Vienna as part of the ORF culture initiative "Long Night of Music".

Marija Sklad-Sauer was widowed and has one son. From 1971 she lived in Vienna- Mauer .

Marija Sauer died on October 4, 2014 at the age of 79 and was buried on October 11, 2014 at the Mauer cemetery (group 9, row 1, number 1).

Awards

Discography (selection)

  • 1982: Recital , LP (Jugoton lsy-66146)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b friedhoefewien.at - Search for the deceased - Marija Sauer . Retrieved March 1, 2015.
  2. ↑ Program item 29: La Divina-Bar >> Professor Marija Sklad-Sauer ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in the program of the ORF cultural initiative “Long Night of Music”, 2006, page 31 ( PDF file; 43, MB, last accessed: June 27, 2009; 4.5 MB).
  3. ↑ Town hall correspondence preview >> Friday, October 3rd (2003) >> Marija Sklad-Sauer on the official website of the City of Vienna (last accessed: June 27th, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Sklad-Sauer, Marija
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sklad, Marija (maiden name); Sour, Marija
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian singing teacher and singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Crvenka , Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2014
Place of death Vienna , Austria