Thomas Aigner (musicologist)

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Thomas Aigner (* 1958 in Vienna ) is an Austrian musicologist and librarian .

Life

Aigner studied musicology at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1983. He taught at the Vienna Conservatory in the field of opera and song historiography and is an expert on Johann Strauss and the Strauss family . He has been committed to the Vienna Institute for Strauss Research since it was founded.

Since 1989 he has worked on the Johann Strauss catalog raisonné. For example, Aigner published Strauss' love letters to Olga Smirnitskaja , one of Russia's first female composers.

Since 2000 he has headed the music collection of the Vienna Library in the City Hall .

Publications

  • The concerts of Aram Chačaturjan (dissertation)
  • Johann Strauss in Russia , 108 pp., 1995.
  • Olga Smirnitskaja, the addressee of 100 love letters , about Johann Strauss, 1998.
  • Josef Schrammel im Serail , first edition of Josef Schrammel's diary , 1869–1871, 160 p., Ed. by Stefan Winterstein, 2007.
  • Sakuntala , October 1820, libretto by Johann Philipp Neumann , ed. by Thomas Aigner, 2008.
  • Biographical network , about Hugo Wolf , 2010.

Music editions

  • Second romance for solo cello and orchestra , opus 255, by Johann Strauss, 1997.
  • Persian March , opus 289, by Johann Strauss, 1998.
  • Fleeting Lust , by Joseph Lanner , 2001.
  • Allegro fantastique for orchestra , by Josef Strauss , 2016.
  • Peine du cœur (Liebesgram), for orchestra , by Josef Strauss, 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The concerts of Aram Chačaturjan . University of Vienna, mach. Diss., 1983.
  2. ↑ Thomas Aigner: Olga Smirnitskaja: the addressee of 100 love letters from Johann Strauss . Hans Schneider , Tutzing 1998.
  3. ^ New head of the city library's music collection. In: APA-OTS. March 20, 2000, accessed June 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Aigner, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musicologist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna