Otto Sertl
Otto Sertl (born June 12, 1924 in Vienna ; † March 28, 2013 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian musicologist . From 1979 to 1986 he was Secretary General of the Salzburg Festival .
life and work
broadcast
Sertl studied musicology at the University of Vienna and the Vienna Music Academy . In 1951 he was charged with a dissertation on Joseph Dessauer Dr. phil. PhD. He gained his first professional experience from 1953 in the music department of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), Studio Klagenfurt. In 1957 he moved to ORF's Studio Salzburg in the same position.
In 1960 Sertl moved with his family to Mainz , where he headed the stage and concert department of Schott Musikverlag until 1963 . Then the Saarländischer Rundfunk brought him to Saarbrücken . He became head of the music department at the station and built up the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra .
In 1968 the general director of ORF Gerd Bacher invited him to Vienna, where Sertl took over the main music department of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and built up a radio orchestra. The press officer of the Salzburg Festival, Hans Widrich , turned to Sertl and the newly founded ORF symphony orchestra quickly got a permanent place in the festival's program, where it preferably performed contemporary music and musical rarities.
Salzburg Festival
In 1979 Sertl was brought to Salzburg by Herbert von Karajan , where he succeeded Tassilo Nekola , General Secretary of the Salzburg Festival on April 1st . Under his general secretariat and the directorate of Herbert von Karajan, Ernst Haeussermann , Gerhard Wimberger and Heinrich Wiesmüller, world premieres and church concerts were again included in the program. The opera premieres Baal by Friedrich Cerha (1981), Un re in ascolto by Luciano Berio (1984), Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (in a redesign by Hans Werner Henze , 1985) and The Black Mask by caused a stir Krzysztof Penderecki (1986).
Sertl introduced important modern works into the Salzburg concert program. Among others, Franz Schmidt's The Book with Seven Seals (1981), Penthesilea by Othmar Schoeck , Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky (1982) and Die Gezeichen by Franz Schreker (1984) were performed. Thanks to his good connections to ORF, he pushed TV broadcasts, including orchestral concerts on Domplatz.
In his retirement, Sertl was involved in the International Mozarteum Foundation , where he established an audio, film and sound museum in Mozart's house. Sertl lived in Salzburg. He was married to Elisabeth Butschek.
Awards
literature
- Christian Fastl: Sertl, Otto. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
- Alfred Driver: Ö1 belongs to: the annotated success story of a radio station . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77495-2 , p. 56 ff.
Web links
- Festival: Former General Secretary has died . In: Salzburger Nachrichten online, March 29, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Sertl: Josef Dessauer 1798-1876, a song master of the Viennese Biedermeier . Dissertation, Innsbruck 1951.
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sertl, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian musicologist, General Secretary of the Salzburg Festival |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 2013 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |