Paul Pisk

Paul Amadeus Pisk ( born May 16, 1893 in Vienna, † January 12, 1990 in Los Angeles ) was an Austrian-American musicologist and composer.

Life

Paul Pisk doctorate in 1916 in musicology at the University of Vienna under Guido Adler. He then studied at the Vienna Conservatory and studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg and Franz Schreker. He then taught at the Vienna Conservatory and gave lectures at various Viennese next community colleges, particularly at the community college Volksheim Ottakring, where he worked from 1932 to 1934 with Kurt PAHLEN as a music speaker. Among his students was, inter alia, Leopold Spinner.

He also was a board member, secretary and pianist in the Society for Private Musical Performances. He was one of the founding members of the International Society for Contemporary Music, and was from 1920 to 1928 editor of the music leaves of dawn as well as music editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung. In the 1930s he founded the concert series of contemporary music in Vienna, which was 1936-38 continued by Friedrich wild goose.

As a Jew, he emigrated to the USA in 1936. Here he taught, among others at the University of Redlands, California, (1937-1951), the University of Texas at Austin (1951-1963) and Washington University in St. Louis ( 1963-1972 ). Pisk composed orchestral works, ballets, chamber music and songs and composed music theory work.