Wilfried Scheib

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Wilfried Scheib (born August 22, 1922 in Linz , † May 25, 2009 in Vienna ) was an Austrian television pioneer.

Wilfried Scheib, 1995
Wilfried Scheib's grave

Life

Wilfried Scheib began as a choirboy in St. Florian Monastery in Upper Austria. After graduating from the Stiftsgymnasium, he graduated from the teacher training college in Linz and received lessons at the Bruckner Conservatory . At the Vienna Boys' Choir he worked as Kapellmeister.

From 1946 to 1950 he studied journalism, German studies and musicology at the University of Vienna and graduated with the academic degree Dr. phil. from.

Scheib started out as a sound director at Radio Wien . From 1949 to 1993 he taught at the Film and Television Department of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . From 1957 to 1988 he was head of the main music department at ORF . In this role he was responsible for the production of around 10,000 music programs. In 1959 Scheib initiated the TV broadcasts of the Vienna Philharmonic 's New Year's Concerts, which are now broadcast in more than ninety countries.

As a founding member of the International Music Center Vienna (IMZ), Scheib was its Executive Director from 1961 and its General Secretary from 1964. In 1991 he became President and later Honorary President of the Austrian Music Council. From 1964 to 1993, he was Secretary General and Vice President of the UNESCO Research Institute Mediacult.

He has received numerous awards for his achievements. He was a bearer of decorations from the Republic of Austria, the Province of Upper Austria, the City of Vienna, the State and City of Salzburg, Styria and Burgenland. He was also awarded the Schalk Medal from the Vienna Philharmonic, the Mozart Medal from the Mozart Community in Vienna , the Clemens Krauss Medal from the Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Choir and the great Medal of Honor from the City of Cannes.

Scheib was married to the author Silke Schwinger . He was buried in the Mauer cemetery in Vienna (group 47, row 6, no. 1).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilfried Scheib: The development of music reporting in the Wienerisches Diarium from 1703 to 1780 with special consideration of the Vienna Opera . Dissertation . University of Vienna. Vienna 1950.
  2. ^ Inscription Deutschordenshof, Singerstraße: Wilfried Scheib 1966 (accessed June 10, 2014)

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personal data
SURNAME Scheib, Wilfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheib, Wilfried Heinrich Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian music pioneer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 2009
Place of death Vienna