Rudolf Kattnigg

Memorial stone for Rudolf Kattnigg at the parish church in Treffen

Rudolf Kattnigg (born April 9, 1895 in the Töbring district of the municipality of Treffen am Ossiacher See in Carinthia ; † September 2, 1955 in Klagenfurt ) was an Austrian composer , pianist and conductor .

Life

Rudolf Kattnigg

Kattnigg was the son of a medical councilor. In 1914 he graduated from the Peraugymnasium in Villach and then studied composition with Joseph Marx at the Vienna State Academy for Music and Performing Arts. After completing his music studies, he was appointed professor at this academy in the early 1920s. In 1928 he took up the position of director of the Innsbruck Conservatory and at the same time held the position of conductor of the local symphony orchestra . This activity alternated with engagements in Vienna and Zurich . After he was dismissed from the Innsbruck Musikverein in 1934, he moved to Berlin through the agency of the Nazi Reich Chamber of Music and became a pianist with the Reichsrundfunk . Several of his operettas were premiered in Germany.

Kattnigg joined the NSDAP in 1938 at the latest . At the request of July 26, 1938, his party membership was dated back to 1933, giving him the low membership number 1,620,971. Since the annexation of Austria in 1938, he lived in Villach, but moved to Vienna in 1939, where he was, among other things, conductor at the Vienna State Opera and with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra . In 1941 he wrote the music for the film The Perjury Builder based on Ludwig Anzengruber , and on December 18, 1942, the world premiere of his fairy tale play Hansi flies to the Negro was held in the Vienna State Opera . In 1942 he received a state commission to compose the opera Miranda .

Kattnigg's compositional work includes operettas , ballets , symphonies , songs , works for orchestra and choir as well as film music. The instrumentation as well as the processing of melodies, songs and folk tunes from his homeland are characteristic of his compositions.

Since 1924 he was married to the operetta singer Trude Kollin.

In 1932 he was given the professional title of professor . The cities of Villach , Klagenfurt and Spittal an der Drau have each named a street after him.

Works (selection)

Operettas
- The Prince of Thule (1935)
- Balkan love (1936)
- Girls from the Rhine
- Donna Miranda
- Empress Katharina (1935)
- Bel Ami (1949)
Slovenian dances
1953: I only have your love (film music)
Piano Concerto (1934)

literature

Hans Jancik: Kattnigg, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 331 ( digitized version ).
Barbara Boisits, Monika Kornberger: Kattnigg, Rudolf Karl. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .

Web links

Works by and about Rudolf Kattnigg in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 3.588.
↑ Graduates from the Peraugymnasium Villach. Accessed November 19, 2018 (German).
^ ^A ^b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 298.

personal data
SURNAME	Kattnigg, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kattnigg, Rudolf Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian composer, pianist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 9, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Töbring, meeting at Ossiacher See , Carinthia
DATE OF DEATH	2nd September 1955
Place of death	Klagenfurt

[Prieberg-1] Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 3.588.

[2] Graduates from the Peraugymnasium Villach. Accessed November 19, 2018 (German).

[Klee298-3] A ^b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 298.