Otto Strobl

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Otto Strobl (born June 19, 1927 in Wiesen im Burgenland ; † February 16, 2019 in Eisenstadt ) was an Austrian composer , music teacher , conductor and organist .

biography

Otto Strobl learned the violin from his mother and the organ from his father. During his studies of music education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , he learned composition with Alfred Uhl and organ with the Vienna cathedral organist Karl Josef Walter , while studying history at the University of Vienna .

After completing his studies, he was a teacher at the Bundesrealgymnasium (BRG) Eisenstadt from 1949 , and in 1959 he moved to the Burgenland University of Education . From 1967 to 1987 he was professor for music theory at the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt. He was also the organist at Eisenstadt Cathedral . From 1947 he was the conductor of various choirs (church choirs, youth choirs) and from 1950 for 40 years conductor of the Haydn Choir in Eisenstadt and federal chorister in the Burgenland Choir Association. He has been retired since 1992.

Otto Strobl's grave

He was buried on March 1, 2019 at the Stadtfriedhof (grave number 84) in Eisenstadt.

His work as a composer focuses on choral music, orchestras, wind orchestras and masses, but also dramatic music.

Prizes and awards

Catalog raisonné

Excerpts from his more than 500 pieces of work, including an extensive choral work, plays, vocal and chamber music, including the "FIS Fanfare" for wind instruments, the official anthem at international ski events. In 1974 he published the volume “Burgenland and Croatian Folk Songs”

Orchestral works

  • 1967: Suite for string orchestra
  • 1970: Concertino for violin and orchestra
  • 1975: dance suite for small orchestra
  • 1977: Second suite for string orchestra - "Pannonian"
  • 1978: Poèmes for alto saxophone , harp and strings
  • 1978: Sketches and pictures from an old town - suite for trumpet and strings , based on a story by Elfriede Ettl
  • 1984: Scherzo semi seria for large wind orchestra
  • 1989: Concertino for clarinet and orchestra
  • 1991: Symphonic suite , for orchestra
  • 1994: Concertino for violin, violoncello and orchestra
  • 1994: Music for cor anglais and orchestra
  • Variations on the Sauschneider Song by Joseph Haydn

Religious music

  • 1969: Cantata of saints based on sacred folk songs
  • 1969: Advent music
  • 1971: Burgenland festival cantata
  • 1973: Up, you shepherds
  • 1974: Dialogues
  • 1974: prayers from the ark
  • 1984: Cantata mystica
  • 1986: Deutsche Messe for the deceased
  • 1986: Eisenstadt trade fair
  • 1986: St. Augustine Fair
  • 1986: Kremsmünster trade fair
  • 1987: We are ...
  • 1989: St. Georgener Messe
  • 1993: Advent cantata
  • 1993: Francis Oratorio
  • 1993: Missa in e
  • 1994: Autumn cantata
  • 1995: Missa in honorem S. Mariae
  • 1996: Meditations and the history of Job
  • Mass in C

Operas

  • 1986: The golden goose. Children's opera. Libretto : Helmut Stefan Milletich
  • 1988: Legend of Sylvia. Children's opera. Libretto: Helmut Stefan Milletich
  • 1988: The good girls. Children's opera. Libretto: Nestroy
  • 1990: A disintegration. Children's opera. Libretto: Jutta Driver
  • 1991: The Bremen Town Musicians. Children's opera. Libretto: Helmut Stefan Milletich

Organ works

  • 1979: Small concerto in C major , for organ and strings
  • Plavo cvijece , for organ and strings

piano

  • 2002: Fantasy , for piano

Vocal pieces

literature

  • Markus Vorzellner: Otto Strobl - A Burgenland composer. Dipl.arb. Vienna 1991. with catalog raisonné; MaÖ 1997; Goertz 1994; W. Szmolyan in ÖMZ 25/4 (1970); Suppan 1994; Ch.Iwan in SK 54/3 (2007).
  • Markus Vorzellner: Otto Strobl - A composer from Burgenland. Rötzer, Eisenstadt 1996.
  • Helmut Stefan Milletich: The text books for Otto Strobl. Roetzer, Eisenstadt 2001, ISBN 3 85374 344 7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ composer Otto Strobl has died. In: Magazin Klassik, February 19, 2019. Accessed February 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ Composer Otto Strobl is dead. In: BVZ, February 17, 2019. Retrieved on February 17, 2019.
  3. ↑ Godfather Otto Strobl is dead. In: Koch-Eisenstadt, February 19, 2019. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
  4. ^ Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon , accessed on January 18, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Strobl, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Meadows , Burgenland
DATE OF DEATH 16th February 2019
Place of death Eisenstadt