Peter Keuschnig

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Peter Keuschnig (born on March 19, 1940 in Vienna ) is an Austrian conductor and founder of several orchestras dedicated to contemporary music .

life and work

Peter Keuschnig studied piano and drums at the Vienna Conservatory , music pedagogy at the then State Academy for Music and Performing Arts as well as musicology and German studies at the University of Vienna . In 1962 he completed the teaching qualification examination, and in 1968 his dissertation . He took conducting lessons from Ferenc Fricsay , Herbert von Karajan and Bruno Maderna .

Keuschnig founded a number of ensembles:

With the Ensemble Kontrapunkte he has been running a subscription cycle with contemporary music for the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna since 1974 . Guest performances took place in Europe, the USA and Japan. “The objective of the Kontrapunkte ensemble was to bring the diversity of modern and contemporary music closer to the Viennese audience. At first we tried mixed programs, with the Musikverein cycle a shift to impressionism and avant-garde emerged. ”In 1983 the ensemble presented a large overview of contemporary Austrian music creation in New York. In 1987 the orchestra took part in the Europalia in Belgium and in 1993 in the International Festival of New Music in Istanbul. In 2015 the ensemble celebrated its 50th anniversary.

From 1984 to 1994 Keuschnig was musical director of the Theater des Westens in Berlin. There he conducted Gershwin's Porgy and Bess , several operas by Kurt Weill and Lulu by Alban Berg . He has given concerts with leading orchestras in Europe, Japan and America - for example, he conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra , the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the ensemble die reihe . He has made guest appearances at opera houses in Vienna, Salzburg and Berlin as well as at various festivals. On the 90th birthday of Ernst Krenek , he conducted his opera Kehraus um St. Stephan as a production of the Vienna State Opera in the Ronacher . In 2001 he directed the Austrian premiere of the opera Satyagraha by Philip Glass and Constance DeJong at the Festspielhaus St. Pölten . This work describes the early years of Gandhi in South Africa and the development of the nonviolent resistance, the Satyagraha .

There are numerous audio documents of Peter Keuschnig's work, especially as radio recordings, but also as CDs. From 1975 to 1983 he was President of the IGNM section Austria . He has taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts and since 1996 at the Vienna Conservatory .

The conductor has been married to the actress Marianne Chappuis since 1969 , who acted as a speaker in several of his concerts. His brother Rainer Keuschnig (born 1944) is a pianist and also teaches at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Recordings (selection)

Fonts

  • N. Matteis jun. as ballet composer , dissertation, Vienna 1966

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian Music Network : Dr. Peter Keuschnig , accessed on November 11, 2017
  2. ↑ Der Standard (Vienna): Ensemble Kontrapunkte: A few decades for modernism , December 10, 2015, with a picture of the conductor
personal data
SURNAME Keuschnig, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor and founder of orchestras
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna