Peter Planyavsky

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Peter Planyavsky at the organ symposium in St. Ursula, Vienna University of Music, October 20, 2018

Peter Planyavsky (born May 9, 1947 in Vienna ) is an Austrian organist and composer .

Life

During his time as a student at the Schottengymnasium in Vienna , Planyavsky studied organ , composition and improvisation (with Anton Heiller ), piano (with Hilde Seidlhofer ) and conducting (with Hans Gillesberger ) at the Vienna University of Music . He finished his studies with a diploma for organ and church music in 1966. He then worked for a year in an organ building workshop (intonation and assembly), and in 1968 he was organist at Schlägl Abbey in Upper Austria .

From 1969 to 2004 Planyavsky was the cathedral organist at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna and from 1983 to 1990 he was the overall director of the cathedral music. In 1980 he was appointed professor for organ, improvisation and liturgical organ playing at the Vienna University of Music and was also head of the church music department from 1996 to 2002. In addition, he devotes himself time and again to basic church music and writes articles in specialist journals.

Concert tours and master classes have taken Peter Planyavsky to many European countries , to Japan , Australia , South Africa , Hong Kong , Korea , Canada and the USA . In his master classes he focuses on Anton Heiller , Johannes Brahms , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and baroque music , but above all on improvisation and liturgical organ playing. Planyavsky is also a frequent juror in competitions. Planyavsky recorded numerous records and CDs, including recordings of all organ works by Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. He demonstrated his improvisational skills in recordings.

As a conductor, Planyavsky has not only emerged with the great works of church music, but also devotes himself to concerts for organ and orchestra. Concerts by Alfredo Casella , Howard Hanson , Leo Sowerby , Ottorino Respighi , Aaron Copland and Jean Langlais were performed under his direction . Peter Planyavsky composes organ, choir and orchestral music. One of his compositional specialties is parody ; Of the larger works of this kind, The Satisfied Autobus , the parody of a Bach cantata , has been performed more than 40 times.

In addition, Planyavsky worked as an expert on numerous organ building projects. Particularly noteworthy in this context is the construction of the new Rieger organ in the Great Hall of the Vienna Musikverein , which Planyavsky was involved in planning together with Ludger Lohmann , Martin Haselböck , Gillian Weir and Olivier Latry .

His father Alfred Planyavsky (1924–2013) was a double bass player with the Vienna Philharmonic and a music writer.

In 2017 Peter Planyavsky completed a doctoral degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz with the thesis "On composition technique and aesthetics in the work of Anton Heiller".

Awards

Works (selection)

Compositions

  • Kohelet . Cantata for baritone, speaker, choir, organ and percussion. Commissioned by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, 2011.
  • WAP Mozart, a not exactly small night music . 2005.
  • PP Bach, Cactus tragicus . Cantata for soprano, tenor, bass, choir and orchestra (LWV 19204). 2004.
  • HerzLosZeitLess . Operelle , libretto: Walter Titz , 2004.
  • Wedding in Cana . Church Opera, 1998.
  • Intermezzo for organ . 1994.
  • No arrangements (four of them) for trumpet and positive organ (Ouverture, Mantanera, Elegia e Recitativo, Burlesca finale). 1989/1990.
  • Three miniatures for pedal recorder . 1989. A musician plays the recorder and organ pedals.
  • The conductress out of love , a very bourgeois Singspiel. 1987.
  • JP Haydn, Arrival Symphony . 1987.
  • Fantasy in memoriam AH 1986.
  • WAP Mozart, Four pieces for the trumpet clock: Andante ma non troppo / Anonkel ma non poco / Largo ma non largo / Rondo alla Turkey. 1985. (Vinzenz Carl Plagiavsky hides behind the mysterious pseudonym - he used to sign his works with the monogram PVC. For a patron who is hard of hearing he had a trumpet clock constructed, for which the present pieces were written.
  • The four men in the fiery furnace - a biblical ballad for soprano and organ . 1985.
  • PP Bach, The satisfied bus . 1985 ( madrigal choir , a green, evangelist and tourist guide, policeman)
  • Perpetual motion machine . 1978. (An attempt was made to make the piece come out of nowhere and then disappear again. Fading in and out is composed and represented with the means of the organ. The basic time measure is the 5/8 rhythm. In the background the melody Heilig, Heilig - the angelic hymn of praise is also a kind of music without end.)
  • Three serious conversations for positive and harpsichord . 1978
  • Hanna and Eli - a biblical ballad for soprano and organ . 1978
  • Danse sad . 1975
  • Veni, Quaeso, Veni Sancte Spiritus . 1974
  • Sonata II pro organo . 1973
  • Missa Viennensis . 1972
  • Toccata alla Rumba . 1971
  • Sonata I pro organo . 1968
  • Two psalms for mezzo-soprano and organ . 1964
  • Psalm 19 . Melody for God's Praise No. 35. 2009
  • Further organ works
  • measure up

Fonts

  • Moritz Reger and other weirdnesses. Music publisher Dr. J. Butz, Sankt Augustin 2005, ISBN 3-928412-04-3 .
  • Saved from St. Stephen's Cathedral. Edition VA bENE, Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-851671-88-0 .
  • Anton Heiller. All the registers of a life. Edition VA bENE, Vienna 2009.
  • Catholic church music. Practice and liturgical backgrounds. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 978-3-7022-3094-4 .
  • Anton Heiller. Organist, composer, conductor. Boydell & Brewer, 2014, ISBN 978-1-580-46497-0 . (English)
  • Toccata and flights. Edition VA bENE, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85167-291-6 .

literature

  • Manfred Novak (ed.): Theories of the Planyversum - thoughts, articles, compositions. Peter Planyavsky on his 65th birthday. LIT-Verlag, Vienna et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-50395-4 . (= Volume 4 of the Music: Research and Science series. )

Web links

Commons : Peter Planyavsky  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i biography of Peter Planyavsky. In: The new organ of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. Program for the inauguration concert on March 26, 2011.
  2. ↑ Uwe Harten : Planyavsky, family. 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 .
  3. ^ University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Retrieved July 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Planyavsky, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Planyavsky, Peter Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna