Viktor Fortin

Viktor Fortin (born May 14, 1936 in Fohnsdorf , Styria) is an Austrian composer .

Life

After completing compulsory school, Viktor Fortin was first an apprentice gardener, then a gardener assistant in his parents' business. He was also a dance musician with his own band. In 1956 Fortin began studying music at the Graz Conservatory . Five years later he graduated from the Graz Workers' Secondary School and passed teaching qualifications in piano , bassoon and recorder . He then taught music at various Styrian music schools.

In 1965/66, Viktor Fortin passed teaching examinations in music and German and became a high school teacher at various schools in Styria. During these years he became increasingly active as a composer, recorder player, piano accompanist and conductor of his own works. In the following years he received numerous teaching assignments in the theory of forms, music analysis, score playing as well as methodology and didactics of music lessons in secondary schools.

He was appointed university professor (equivalent to today's university professor) for recorder and a teaching position for form theory and music analysis took place in 1979. He also continued his studies in musicology at the University of Vienna . Viktor Fortin obtained his doctorate in musicology and German studies in 1985. In the 1990s he was elected President of the Styrian Tonkünstlerbund (he was succeeded by Gerhard Present in 2005 ) and he was awarded the Styrian Decoration of Honor in Gold (as successor to Karl Haidmayer ) . Increasingly he celebrated national and international successes as a composer. His most important artistic activities include numerous concerts with his own chansons on the piano accompanied by Monique Johannsen and Wolfgang Müller-Lorenz and the composition of the church opera Franz Jägerstätter (completed in 2006). Fortin taught at the Art University Graz until 2004 .

Web links

• Works by and about Viktor Fortin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Viktor Fortin's website
• Walther Neumann: From tulips to tones. Styrian of the day. In: Small newspaper . Styria Media Group , October 24, 2008, p. 2 , accessed September 9, 2017 .