Norbert Sprongl
Norbert Sprongl (born April 30, 1892 in Obermarkersdorf ; † April 26, 1983 in Mödling ) was an Austrian composer .
Life
After completing a pedagogical training in Graz , Norbert Sprongl worked as a teacher from 1911 to 1945. In 1915 he began studying part-time at the Vienna Music Academy in Vienna . Where he studied piano , music history and Marx the subject composition . Since his retirement Sprongl worked as a freelance composer and composition teacher in Mödling , where he was a member of the Mödlinger Künstlerbund . In 1959 Sprongl founded the Working Group of Lower Austrian Composers, which he led into old age (1972) and from which the "INÖK - Interest Group of Lower Austrian Composers" emerged in 1989 under his successor Ferdinand Weiss.
Norbert Sprongl created more than 200 works, including four symphonies , chamber and piano music , several instrumental concerts and numerous songs. His compositional style is free-tonal with harmonics rich in dissonance . Sprongl also wrote some works for plucked instruments , encouraged by his friend, Vinzenz Hladky .
honors and awards
- 1956: professional title professor
- 1962: Culture Prize (Lower Austria)
- 1968: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
- 1970: Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna
- 1971: Mozart Medal from the Mozart Community in Vienna
Works (selection)
- Five songs op.6 (1931)
- Five songs op.29 based on texts by Otto Julius Birnbaum (1937)
- Four symphonic dances for orchestra op.93
- Trio for flute , mandolin and guitar op.94 no.1
- Sonata for double bass and piano No. 2 op.132
- Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 3 op.97
- Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 4 op.100
- Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 5, op.165
- Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 2 op.155
- Dance suite for plucked orchestra
- Serenade for mandolin and guitar
literature
- Robert Stockhammer: Norbert Sprongl. A monograph . Lafite, Vienna 1973.
- Christian Fastl: Norbert Sprongl. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
Web links
- Works by and about Norbert Sprongl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Doblinger Musikverlag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flotzinger et al. Gruber (Ed.): Musikgeschichte Österreichs Volume 2. Verlag Styria, 1979. P. 513
- ^ Inscription Deutschordenshof, passage: Norbert Sprongl 1971 (accessed June 7, 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sprongl, Norbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Obermarkersdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 1983 |
| Place of death | Mödling |