Robert Schollum

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Robert Schollum (born August 22, 1913 in Vienna ; † September 30, 1987 there ) was an Austrian composer , conductor, music teacher, music critic, music writer and university professor . In the 1960s and 1980s he was President of the Austrian Composers' Association .

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education

Schollum studied composition with Joseph Marx , music theory with Egon Lustgarten and organ and piano with Carl Lafite at the New Vienna Conservatory and the Vienna Music Academy . He taught as an assistant to Anton Maria Klafsky at the New Vienna Conservatory and gave piano lessons at the Conservatory for Popular Music.

National Socialism

In 1932 Schollum joined the Hitler Youth and later also the SA . From 1933 he appeared as a conductor. From 1939 to 1945 he did military service in the German armed forces , after being wounded he served as paymaster on the Russian front . In addition, he worked as a pianist , conductor and choir director for the Hitler Youth and was the district representative of the Reich Chamber of Music for the music education department. After the bombed out of his apartment in Vienna in 1944, he moved to Ottensheim with Linz .

Career after World War II

From 1945 Schollum was choirmaster at the Old Cathedral in Linz and also directed the Ignatius Choir, the "Frohsinn" choir and the Linz Chamber Orchestra . In 1946 he became head of the Linz City Music Directorate, in 1952 music advisor to the Cultural Office and in 1953 city music director. He founded the Linz section of the International Society for New Music , whose Arnold Schönberg Medal he received in 1953.

From 1955 Schollum conducted the Vienna City Hall Serenades , and in the same year he founded the Upper Austrian Musical Youth . In 1956 he became national choir master of the Austrian Workers' Choir Association . In both Linz and Vienna he occasionally designed radio broadcasts.

In 1958 he was awarded the title of professor , in the following year he was appointed professor for song and oratorio at the Vienna Academy for Music and Performing Arts ; he held this position until 1983. In 1960 he was awarded the Federal Ministry of Education's honorary prize for outstanding achievements in the field of popular education ; In 1961 he received the State Prize for Music and in 1971 the Music Prize of the City of Vienna .

From 1963 Robert Schollum was Bundeschorleiter of the Workers' Association. From 1965 to 1969 and from 1983 to 1984 he was President of the Austrian Composers Association. In 1973 he was made an honorary member there. In 1978 he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art and the Medal of Honor of the City of Vienna in gold.

Robert Schollum's grave

Schollum is the father of two adoptive sons. He is buried in an honorary grave (group 40, number 157) at the Vienna Central Cemetery.

Works

As a student, Schollum composed more than 100 folk song settings , later his compositions were initially in the tradition of Claude Debussy , then in that of Béla Bartók and Darius Milhaud . In the 1950s he came up with partly tonally bound serial compositions. His work encompasses almost all genres from instrumental solo works to chamber music, choral works and songs to instrumental concerts and symphonies. His estate is in the music collection of the Austrian National Library .

Publications (selection)

  • Music in popular education (1959)
  • Egon Wellesz (1964)
  • The Little Viennese Jazz Book (1969)
  • The Vienna School (1969)
  • The Austrian Song of the 20th Century (1977)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ outstanding artist award - music ( memorial from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 28, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Schollum, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1987
Place of death Vienna