Thussy Gorischek

Thussy Gorischek (born September 26, 1940 in Leoben ; † December 17, 2011 in Graz ; civil Thusnelda Pachla-Gorischek ) was an Austrian violinist and music historian.

Life

Thussy Gorischek attended the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (state examination and concert diploma with a gifted scholarship) and studied musicology, psychology, anatomy and physiology at the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen (Magister Artium).

First solo concert with orchestra accompaniment at the age of 16 in her home town of Leoben (WAMozart A major violin concerto). At the age of 18, she was a standing violinist in the Wiener Damenkapelle (TV film Die Muskete with Senta Wengraf). After studying orchestral music in chamber (Capella Academica), theater (Vienna Volksoper, Theater an der Wien) and symphony orchestras (Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra) as first violinist and concertmaster. Freelance soloist as interpreter of virtuoso violin works (concert tours: Austria, Germany, Benelux countries, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy). Radio, television, record and CD recordings with her Januarius Gaglianus from 1746.

From 1963 to 1969 Thussy Gorischek was a teacher at the Horak Conservatory in Vienna, today the Franz Schubert Conservatory , and at the Vienna Conservatory . From 1978 she was a lecturer at the Pedagogical Faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg for music teacher training. Thussy Gorischek was married to the former sound engineer and publisher Kurt Pachla and has one son.

Since November 1999, Thussy Gorischek has been holding a series of lectures with critical discussions on the cultural scene in the Studio Salon in her Graz town hall. The lectures are also available in extended form as paperbacks from Studio Edition.

Publications

Studienwerk

• Technical Intensive Studies for Solo Violin, ISBN 978-3-9501329-4-6

Cadences

• 3 cadences to WA Mozart's Adelaide concert (Rohrdorfer Musikverlag)

Books

• Russian National Composers (Trilogy), ISBN 978-3-902522-01-6
• Pablo de Sarasate - violin virtuoso & composer, ISBN 978-3-902522-05-4
• Franz Liszt - Hungarian. Composer, Austrian Pianist, ISBN 978-3-902522-07-8
• Chr. W. Gluck - Die Reformoper, ISBN 978-3-902522-06-1
• The classic Viennese romantics, ISBN 978-3-902522-09-2
• Richard Wagner and his heirs, ISBN 978-3-902522-08-5
• Musician - hard worker in evening dress and tails, ISBN 978-3-902522-10-8
• Czech national composer, ISBN 978-3-902522-14-6
• The mysterious death of the violinist Joseph Roy, ISBN 978-3-902522-12-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Thussy Gorischek in the catalog of the German National Library