Renate Spitzner

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Renate Spitzner (born May 28, 1943 in Prague ) is an Austrian composer ( ÖGZM ), musician, music teacher and music therapist . She founded the "musical-social method" and initiated the "volunteer card".

Spitzner studied violin, organ, piano, trumpet, music education, composition and music therapy in Vienna. She is a graduate of the University of Music in Vienna.

Renate Spitzner with violin

During her work at the Baumgartnerhöhe psychiatric hospital in Vienna , she developed the “musical-social method” in which patients and professional musicians make music together. Classical works are adapted and rewritten for the needs of the patient for making music together. The "music-social method" was publicly recognized for the first time in 1992 as part of the UN Decade of the Disabled Vienna-Japan.

Renate Spitzner is the mother of the composer Gerald Spitzner .

Awards

  • Artistic recognition by the Czechoslovak Republic, world premiere of the composition "Praha" for violin solo on the occasion of the opening of the Czechoslovak Expo pavilion from Brussels in Prague in 1959
  • On the 50th anniversary of the Center in Vienna 1 (Freyung 6, Stiege 1 Tür 5), Renate Spitzner was awarded the 1st Prize for Culture for Social Engagement by the Republic of Austria in 2001 for the UN Year of Volunteers .
  • 2006: Silver Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna , awarded on September 20, 2006 by the City Councilor for Health, Renate Brauner, for the development and long-term implementation of the “music and social method”.

Works (excerpt)

Renate Spitzner with composer Gerhard Lampersberg at the Tonhof
  • For the UN Year of the Dolphin: Dolphin 1-10 for violin and piano
  • Mercy - 800 years of St. Elizabeth
  • Encounter at the fountain (2006, Vienna City Hall, coat of arms hall in honor of the composer's life's work)
  • 620 short masses for the sick - Kyrie, preparation of gifts, communion
  • Hope for violin and viola (ÖGZM, Haydnsaal, University of Music Vienna)
  • "Tonhofer Miniatures - Dedication to Gerhard Lampersberg and his wife Maja Weiss-Ostborn-Lampersberg" for solo violin (on the occasion of the ORF report 1968)

literature

  • Renate Spitzner, Gerald Spitzner: Musical practice - machine-replaceable virtuosity or lively application possibilities in rehabilitation? In: Hans Georg Zapotoczky (Ed.): Man, Power, Machine. Integrative Psychiatrie Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85184-012-7 , p. 172-
  • Prof. Renate Spitzner. Integration through music therapy. In: Federal Ministry for Social Security and Generations (Ed.): Faces of Humanity. What Austrians do voluntarily for others. ( Memento of December 25, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), Vienna 2001, p. 42.
  • Lecture in lecture hall A of the University Hospital of Vienna General Hospital: "Time used by oppression - a curriculum for the musical and social method emerges", November 2, 2007, DPGA conference (explanation of Furtwängler's composition triangle)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 2001 Honor for the International Year of Volunteers. Retrieved May 2, 2015 .
  2. ↑ See Czechoslovak TV live recording.
  3. ↑ City Councilor Brauner presents decorations. Professors Friedrich, Lischka and Spitzner honored. City hall correspondence Vienna, accessed on May 2, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Spitzner, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, musician, music teacher and music therapist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague