Robert Leukauf

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Robert Leukauf (born April 5, 1902 in Vienna ; † September 6, 1976 in Vienna ) was an Austrian music writer and composer.

Live and act

Leukauf was born as the son of the composer Gustav Leukauf and the singer Eugenie Schilhanek. From 1920 to 1926 he studied composition with Joseph Marx and music theory with Eusebius Mandyczewski at the Vienna Music Academy, today's University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . After numerous engagements as Kapellmeister abroad, Leukauf became musical director of the Vienna Volkstheater in 1951 . He held this position until 1969.

Fight against the avant-garde

Robert Leukauf was a distinguished opponent of the avant-garde and twelve-tone technique . According to his own words, he saw himself in 1973 at a time when “demonic, amateurish intellectualism that was foreign to music was driving a completely uninhibited mischief from the most stupid gaudiness to excruciating oriastical noise. Legalized by the 'denial' of the fundamental opposition between consonance and dissonance. "

Hartmut Krones stated: “After Leukauf's pamphlet was published, Vienna's music scene groaned. Once again, that irreconcilable opposition between tradition and progress was addressed, indeed swung out, which had already led to bitter opposition in the interwar period. "

Memberships

Works

Music theory

  • “The terror of lies or music as a mental exercise.” In: The composer. Trade journal of the Ö.KB, E-Music Working Group, November 1973, No. 3, pp. 3–9

Compositions

  • Old Spanish suite . Op. 49 Heinrichshofen 1962
  • Sense of art: Who wants art . Op. 28 (Text: Fritz Worff). Vienna, Munich: Doblinger 1964
  • Wind quintet : Op. 25. Vienna, Munich: Doblinger 1965
  • Fugue Sonata No. 1 op.11 for piano, Vienna: Doblinger 1960

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data from the Austrian Music Lexicon
  2. ↑ Robert Leukauf: “The terror of lies or music as a mental exercise.” In: The composer. Trade journal of the Ö.KB, E-Musik work group , November 1973, No. 3, pp. 3–9, here pp. 3 and 4
  3. ↑ Hartmut Krones: Structure and Freedom in the Music of the 20th Century: on the Continuation of the Vienna School. Böhlau Verlag Vienna 2002 ( ISBN 9783205770664 ), p. 189
personal data
SURNAME Leukauf, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1976
Place of death Vienna