Oskar Reisinger

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Oskar Reisinger (born April 24, 1908 in Zell am See ; † November 22, 1985 in Cologne ) was an Austrian composer , arranger and radio editor.

Life

Oskar Reisinger received his first musical training in 1920 as a choirboy at Salzburg Cathedral . He studied music in Vienna and at the Anton Bruckner Conservatory in Linz . He later worked as a freelance composer in Berlin before he was drafted as a soldier in 1939–1945. In 1948 he became a program designer at the then NWDR in Cologne and from 1951 to 1974 headed the “Entertaining Music” department at WDR . He created several musical radio series and designed them himself until his retirement. In 1973 the accusation was raised that Reisinger was involved in a network for manipulating Schlager. Reisinger died in 1985 and was buried in the Salzburg municipal cemetery.

As a composer he created - sometimes under the pseudonym "Wenzel Hesky" - operettas , works of upscale light music and hits , which u. a. were sung by Peter Alexander , Willy Schneider and Gitte Haenning . He also created over 400 arrangements of works by foreign composers.

Works (selection)

  • 3 operettas
  • Derby , Intermezzo for large orchestra (1951)
  • Fuchsjagd , Intermezzo for large orchestra (1952)
  • Tingeltangel , Intermezzo for large orchestra (1953)
  • Three preludes to Negro Spirituals for large orchestra (1953)
  • Musical waltz for small orchestra (1954)
  • Visit from Vienna , concert for large orchestra (1957)
  • Uncle Donald , Grotesque (1957)
  • Penny Polka (1958)
  • Lullaby for a Pony , Intermezzo for small orchestra (1959)
  • The cousin from Madrid , Spanish waltz (1961)
  • Serenade from a Shy for piano

literature

  • Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser (Hrsg.): Composers of the present in the German composers interest group: a manual. 4th edition. German Composers' Association, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-555-61410-X , p. 1024 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Obituary from Westdeutscher Rundfunk in: Die Welt , November 28, 1985, p. 11 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Broadcasting: Schlager manipulation in WDR? In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1973, pp. 90 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Reisinger, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oskar, Manfred (pseudonym); Hesky, Wenzel (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, arranger and radio editor
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Zell am See
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1985
Place of death Cologne