Sepp Mitterbauer

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Sepp Mitterbauer (born September 7, 1946 in Vienna ; † December 9, 2015 ) was an Austrian trumpeter and pianist .

Live and act

Mitterbauer received piano lessons from the age of eight and studied as an extraordinary listener at the Vienna Conservatory when he was twelve . At the age of sixteen, now properly enrolled, he switched to trumpet as a major, but kept piano as a second subject. With the John Coltrane Concert in the Wiener Konzerthaus in 1962 (which incidentally also inspired Brückl , Walter Malli , Pechoc and Novotny ), he began to turn to jazz .

As a student with Victor Sokolowski (piano, music history, harmony ), Mitterbauer fundamentally dealt with twelve-tone technique in the style of Josef Mathias Hauer and often appeared in the Josef Mathias Hauer circle (First Society for the Care of Twelve-Tone Playing) . The contact with the teacher was so good that Sokolowski played at his student's wedding.

In 1964, with the foreseeable successful completion of his studies, but disillusioned with a possible future as an orchestral musician, Mitterbauer decided to pursue his musical ambitions merely as a hobby and took a position with the City of Vienna , which ultimately led to the post of director of the Brigittenau district office , but at the same time left a completely free hand for his preferred music.

His fellow student Franz Rosicky brought him together with Fritz Novotny around 1965 , who at that time founded a free jazz formation. This formation, reformARTunit , of which Mitterbauer had belonged since then, still existed at the end of 2013.

Mitterbauer in other groups (selection)

  • Project of Art - Own band from the mid-1980s
  • M'Boom (Fritz Kotrba, Claus Mayrhofer Barabbas , Mitterbauer as a trio, occasionally supplemented by Markus Pillhofer); Mitterbauer appeared under the pseudonym M'Tab . The band existed from 1979 to 1981; last year Walter replaced Malli Kotrba, who withdrew from music.
  • Various blues formations with Sandro Miori , for example The Clan Music Overdrive (1986–1989).

Web links

Commons : Sepp Mitterbauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In memory of Sepp Mitterbauer. In: jazzheinz.com. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  2. ↑ AF_339
  3. ↑ Named after an African drum figure. AF_196f
personal data
SURNAME Mitterbauer, Sepp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian trumpeter and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2015