Wolfgang Heissler

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Wolfgang Heissler (born November 4, 1948 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian music teacher , composer and bandmaster .

Life

Wolfgang Heissler studied piano in Munich , conducting in Berlin , Bremen , Vienna (among others with Hans Swarowsky ), composition and music theory in Hamburg .

From 1975 to 1988 he had various engagements in Germany as a theater music director and worked as a music school teacher and lecturer at the University of the Arts in Bremen . In 1980 he founded the chamber ensemble Norddeutscher Kammerkreis , which he directed until 1982.

From 1988 he was initially a lecturer and contract teacher and from 1998 to 2017 he was a full professor for composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

From 2003 to 2013 he was dean of studies for music education courses, 2014/2015 vice rector for studies and teaching. In addition, many years of experience in various academic bodies; Among other things, member of study commissions, university college and senate, chairman of the founding convention. Heissler is the founder and honorary member of the Alumni Network Music Education Vienna .

He was a song accompanist and chamber musician ( pianist ) in numerous concerts as well as a speaker in various advanced training events and courses. His compositions were u. a. listed in Austria , Germany , Switzerland , Italy , Hungary , Ukraine and Taiwan .

Wolfgang Heissler lives in Vienna and has been married to the restorer and artist Elvira Heissler (née Raymann) since 1975 . The couple has three children.

Works (selection)

I.a. Around 100 songs (including over 70 with piano accompaniment, the others with various instrumental ensembles), orchestral pieces (also for youth orchestras), chamber music for various ensembles, piano pieces (also for four hands), choral pieces, the loan (Christmas singspiel for children).

  • 1989: Three folk songs
  • 1990: Six little songs and duets - based on Bavarian poems by Betty Simmerl
  • 1991: Five songs - based on poems by Rainer Kunze
  • 1992: Divertimento for youth string orchestra
  • 1993: From a letter from Franz Kafka (chamber orchestra, soprano)
  • 1994: Isaiah 29: 17-19 - eight-part mixed choir
  • 1997: Concerto for string orchestra
  • 1998: Five songs - based on poems by Hilde Domin
  • 1999: Quintet for wind instruments
  • 1999: Three little pieces - for piano four hands
  • 2000: Two piano pieces
  • 2000: Suite - for youth chamber orchestra
  • 2000: Sonatine - for young piano players
  • 2001: Four little dialogues (duo)
  • 2001: Four times three haikus for mixed choir
  • 2002: The loan - an opera for children based on a story by Wolf Dietrich Schnurre
  • 2005: Introduction and Fugue - for orchestra
  • 2005: Overture - for orchestra
  • 2005: Overture - for small orchestra
  • 2006: Four songs based on poems by Werner Bergengruen
  • 2006: Two songs - based on medieval poems
  • 2006: Viva la musica - three pieces
  • 2006: Three songs - based on poems by Josef Weinheber
  • 2008: Three songs - based on poems by Rose Ausländer
  • 2008: Three songs - based on poems by Hilde Domin
  • 2008: Two songs - based on poems by Hans Maier
  • 2008: Study - for violin solo
  • 2009: String Quartet - Theme and Variations on the Name of Joseph Haydn
  • 2009: Four songs - based on poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti
  • 2010: Three songs - based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • 2011: The four seasons - songs based on poems for children by Mascha Kaléko
  • 2012: Four Psalms / Three Psalms
  • 2012: What must bloom, bloom - five songs based on poems by Reiner Kunze
  • 2012: Wiener Lied - text based on Camillo Öhlberger
  • 2013: The tumbling continent - music for the documentary
  • 2013: Three pieces - based on poems by Joachim Ringelnatz
  • 2013: Three pieces - based on poems by Else Lasker-Schüler
  • 2014: Three little pieces - for piano
  • 2015: Towards the goal - five songs based on poems by various authors

Publications (selection)

  • Heinz Kratochwil: The piano work. In: CD booklet on Heinz Kratochwil: The piano work. University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, 50 years department of music education, Vienna 1997.
  • Theory Lessons in Music Schools - Thoughts on Training. In: Michael Hrubý (ed.): Learning to teach music. Snapshots and perspectives of university music education. Festschrift Ewald Breunlich for his 60th birthday. Universal Edition UE 26285, Vienna 2000.
  • Considerations for Music Studies Class. In: Wolfgang Heissler (ed.): "Understanding music", speeches & writings No. 6, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Vienna 2004.
  • "Sensations ... really refined and idealized by the magic of musical poetry". - Composition and composition aspects in Joseph Haydn's “The Seasons”. In: Hubert Gruber-Rust (ed.): The Seasons of Joseph Haydn - A musical-interdisciplinary dialogue. Provincial Library, Weitra 2009.
  • Elisabeth Haas, Wolfgang Heissler, Martina Schneider: I want, I was a semitone step - experience, describe, understand music (teacher and student book). Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 9783765103629 .
  • Comments on the “new teacher training”. In: Kunsträume June 2011. University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Vienna 2011.

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Kürschner's Musicians Handbook 2006; KG Saur, Munich 2006, p 175.
  • Music history of Tyrol Volume 3, 20th century; Universitätsverlag Wagner 2008, Innsbruck, S 376.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement of the appointment to the Dean of Studies , newsletter special number 9 of the University of Music and Performing Arts (academic year 2003/04). Retrieved October 29, 2019.
  2. ↑ Election of the Vice Rector for Teaching and the Advancement of Women , Bulletin 6 of the University of Music and Performing Arts (2013/14 academic year). Retrieved October 29, 2019.
  3. ↑ Alumni Network, Dean of Studies for Music Education Studies. , Directory from 1984 to 2005. Retrieved October 29, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Heissler, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor, music teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck