Peter Vujica
Peter Vujica (born December 7, 1937 in Graz ; † December 25, 2013 in Eisbach ) was an Austrian music critic , culture editor, composer and author. He also published under the pseudonym Peter Daniel Wolfkind .
Life
education
After studying music at the Styrian State Conservatory with Ludovika von Kaan (piano; von Kaan was also Alfred Brendel's teacher ) and Waldemar Bloch (theory and composition), Peter Vujica attended lectures on aesthetics with Joseph Marx at the University of Graz . There he received his doctorate in 1964 based on the thesis "The meaning content of the word poetry in the early writings of Johann Gottfried Herder " to Dr. phil.
Activity as a journalist and writer
Vujica had been working as an art journalist alongside his studies since 1961. From 1961 to 1966 he was dramaturge at the Graz Opera , from 1966 to 1982 culture editor of the major Austrian daily newspaper Kleine Zeitung in Graz. Until 2001, Vujica was finally head of the culture section of the Viennese daily newspaper “ Der Standard ”, for which he then worked as a music critic and cultural-political commentator.
Vujica's books (Europaverlag, Suhrkamp), which were mainly created in the 1970s and published under the pseudonym Peter Daniel Wolfkind , belong to fantastic literature, in the narrower sense of modern romanticism , and have often been compared to the grotesque tales of Roald Dahl because of their black, humorous, macabre coloring .
Activity as a cultural manager
In 1968 Vujica founded the “ Musikprotokoll ” (a festival of musical modernity) together with Emil Breisach . From 1982 to 1989 he was the director of the Styrian Autumn Festival, a festival of modern art of all kinds. Vujica was also a co-founder of the Joseph Marx Society, which was founded in Vienna in spring 2006 and pursues the goal of advocating for the works of Joseph Marx . Vujcia took over the office of the vice-president of this society.
Activity as a composer
Vujica's compositions have been performed at the Graz Schauspielhaus , the Wiener Festwochen , the Theater an der Wien , the Wiener Schönberg Center , the Wiener Musikverein and the Erlangen Festival .
Peter Vujica was also the inventor and developer of cosmophony , the acoustic representation of planetary constellations using so-called cosmic sonagrams . A horoscope is converted into a sequence of sounds by using conventional notation to create a composition that, from the perspective of the user, reproduces a melody and the associated rhythm that are suitable for the horoscoped person. Melody and rhythm should have cosmic references.
death
Vujica suffered from leukemia for several years , of which he died on December 25, 2013. His funeral took place on January 16, 2014 in the cemetery in Semriach , the soul mass was held on February 2, 2014 in the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Graz Central Cemetery .
Works
Compositions
- Piano Sonata (1957)
- Violin Sonata (1960)
- also chamber music, orchestral works, chansons
Books
- Music Criticism - Their Mind and Physiognomy. [Graz] 1967
- Moon night. Stories. Europaverlag, Vienna 1972
- The green zuumbest. Novel. Europaverlag, Vienna 1973
- The messengers of spring. Stories. Europaverlag, Vienna 1975
- Graz. Styria, Graz 1978
- Sentimental geography. Illustrations by Gottfried Pils . Styria, Graz 1979
- The festival of the toads. Fantastic stories. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1985
- as well as scripts for films about Hugo Wolf , Archduke Johann and Herbert Zipper (composer of the Dachau song )
Spectacles
- Hoffmann's story (1978)
Libretti
- Libretti for the operas "Orpheus ex machina" by Iván Eröd (1978) and "The end of the world" by Wilhelm Zobl (1980)
Prizes and awards
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Vujica died
- ↑ Catalog list Austrian National Library
- ↑ Online presence Der Standard Peter Vujica: No Time to Die November 26, 2007
- ↑ Part of the funeral, accessed on January 11, 2015 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Vujica in the catalog of the German National Library
- Cosmophony according to Peter Vujica
- www.joseph-marx-gesellschaft.org - Website of the Joseph Marx Society
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vujica, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolfkind, Peter Daniel (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian music critic, composer, author and culture editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 2013 |
| Place of death | Eisbach |