Walter Szmolyan
Walter Szmolyan (born February 19, 1929 in Vienna ; † March 3, 1995 in Mödling ) was an Austrian music journalist and local scholar .
After studying at the University of Vienna, singing and music theory at the conservatory and twelve-tone music with Hanns Jelinek at the Vienna Music Academy, he began in 1960 as a music critic for the Mödlinger Zeitung. Studies in Music. In 1961 he was able to switch to the Austrian music magazine , where he worked until 1991. He reports on contemporary composers and documents the winners of the Austrian State Prize for Music , the composers of the federal state scene and especially those in Lower Austria. In addition, from 1964 he designed portraits of today's composers on the radio, and in 1970 he was elected to the board of the Austrian Composers' Association, for which he also developed the catalog of orchestral works by living composers at the Lafite publishing house . Historically, he researched the Bauernfeind'sche Theater in Vienna's Palais Auersperg . For the series Musik des XX. In the 19th century he wrote the first music-historical study on Josef Matthias Hauer , which was followed by exhibitions at the Heimatmuseum Wien VIII, the establishment of a sound archive and anniversary radio broadcasts on ORF. He lived together with the Ferdinand Ebner researcher Elisabeth Heller. In 1970 he was able to support the establishment of a memorial in the Beethoven House in Mödling, and in 1972 he was able to support the preservation of the Schönberg Villa there, so that he was finally in charge of the International Schönberg Society as Secretary General .
Honors
- 1977 Decoration of Honor of the City of Mödling
- 1979 professional title professor
Fonts
- Mödling, the city of music . "Mödling. Land, culture and economy ”. Edited by the municipality of Mödling 1975
- Internationale Schönberg-Gesellschaft , Mitteilungen IX, 1986–1993, looking back over 20 years, 1993, pp. 3–21. With the directory of the ÖMZ as the publication organ of the ISG, 1993, pp. 26–29.
literature
- Austrian music lexicon . Volume 5. Verlag of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Szmolyan in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of publications in the Austrian Music Journal, Register Volume I, 1970, and Volume III, 1999
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Szmolyan, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian music journalist and academic local researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1995 |
| Place of death | Mödling |