Oskar Wagner (composer)

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Oskar Wagner (born January 19, 1901 in Vienna ; † September 8, 1972 in Vienna ) was an Austrian conductor , composer and film composer .

Live and act

Wagner received his artistic training from Franz Schreker , Franz Schmidt and Heinrich Schenker in the 1920s . From 1929 to 1936 he worked as a pianist and arranger of the jazz combo Blue Boys, with which he won the “Golden Ribbon” in the competition of Viennese jazz bands and singers in the category “Small Jazz Band” in 1932 and 1933. In 1936 Wagner went to Bad Vöslau in Lower Austria as the spa conductor . He then worked as a freelance composer and conductor, and since 1940 has received a series of film composition commissions.

Oskar Wagner's oeuvre includes the operas Midsummer Night and the Wedding of the Dead, the orchestral music Cid, several choral and instrumental works, pop music and even tangos. Oskar Wagner, who also founded the “Studio Symphony Orchestra”, was married to the pianist Alexandra Wiernik.

As a film composer

Oskar Wagner began his short but extremely intensive work for the cinema in the early days of World War II with two successful Theo Lingen fun plays by Ernst Marischka ( Seven Years of Bad luck, Seven Years of Bad luck ). In the late phase of the war there was an order for the America-friendly biography of Friedrich List's The Infinite Path and another for the last Emil Jannings film Wo ist Herr Belling? , Wagner's last work in the Third Reich. As early as 1946 he was able to resume his work in Austrian B-productions. By the end of the decade, Wagner produced compositions for an abundance of films, after which he largely turned his back on cinema.

Awards

In 1962, Oskar Wagner was honored by the ORF, and he was also awarded the Theodor Körner Prize.

Filmography

literature

  • Ludwig Gesek (ed.): Small Lexicon of Austrian Films, p. 67. Vienna 1959
  • Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, third volume, Bad Münder 1960, p. 1814
  • Jürgen Wölfer, Roland Löper: The great lexicon of film composers, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, p. 541

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Kapellmeister, composer and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1972
Place of death Vienna