Peter Oswald

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Peter Oswald (born October 9, 1953 in Hohenems ; † August 3, 2017 ) was an Austrian cultural and music manager and theorist with a focus on new music .

biography

After studying pharmacy (graduated in 1979) as well as musicology , theater studies and philosophy (graduated in 1982 from the University of Vienna with a dissertation on the late work of Gustav Mahler ), he began his freelance journalistic and musicological work, including for Falter , Neue Zeitschrift für Music , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Melos and the ORF . From 1984 to 1987 he was head of the promotion department of the Universal Edition. The focus of his work was Franz Schreker , Alexander Zemlinsky , Hans Zender , Wolfgang Rihm and Beat Furrer . He then worked as a music consultant for the Wiener Festwochen and radio journalist for ORF until 1988 .

From 1988 to 1991 Peter Oswald was head of the music department in the Styrian regional studio of the ORF (artistic director of music protocol and editing of new music for ORF). In 1991/1992 he was music director for ORF television. He was responsible for documentaries such as “ Pierre Boulez in Salzburg”, “ Peter Sellar's Approach to Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise ”, “American Dreams” and about new music .

In August 1992 he took over the management of the Klangforum Wien . In 1999 he founded the label "Kairos Musikproduktion" together with his wife Barbara Fränz. From 2000 to 2005 he was director of the Styrian Autumn .

Central projects

Music theater area:

Exhibition area:

  • Rudi Gernreich (curator: Brigitte Felderer)
  • Hers. Video as female terrain (curator: Stella Rollig)
  • Image (curator: Peter Pakesch )
  • Latent utopias (curators: Zaha Hadid , Patrick Schumacher)

Acting area:

  • Händl Klaus - I see the Alps, this is how the lakes are created in 2001
  • Händl Klaus - Wilde: The Man with Beautiful Eyes Premiere 2003
  • Kathrin Röggla - Junkspace World Premiere 2004

Literature area:

  • Symposia, theory symposia
  • Gene Pool (2001)

In 2003 he was artistic director of the concerts as part of Graz Capital of Culture 2003 - Icons of the 20th Century. Since 2006 he has taught at the Universities of Vienna , Krems and Zurich . From 2009 he worked at the Teatro Real in Madrid . In 2010 he was director of the Arcana Festival for New Music. In 2012/13 he took over the management of the Arcana Festival, with a focus on new music, flamenco, natural science (complex systems) and visual arts. From 2014 he participated in European cooperation in the field of composition and visual arts.

Journalistic projects

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former Styrian autumn director Peter Oswald has passed away
  2. ^ Peter Oswald: Perspektiven des Neues. Studies on the late work of Gustav Mahler . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1982, OBV .
  3. ↑ a b Oswald, Peter Barbara Fränz. In: musiklexikon.ac.at. October 9, 1953, accessed November 21, 2018 .
  4. ↑ cf. Musikprotokoll '90 (program catalog). Editing: Peter Oswald, Heinz Dieter Sibitz. Graz 1990
  5. ↑ cf. Klangforum Wien , August 16, 2016
  6. ↑ kairos-music.com
  7. ↑ cf. FonoForum 10/07, October 1, 2007, p. 30 and Salzburger Nachrichten , December 9, 2009, p. 10
  8. ↑ Im Spiegel - The Autumn Book of Pictures 2000 to 2005 . (2005) Ed. Steirischer Herbst, Wolfgang Hofer
  9. ^ Arcana Festival for New Music ( Memento of February 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), January 21, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Oswald, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian culture and music manager
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenems
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 2017
Place of death Wiener Neustadt