Rudolf Kattnigg

Rudolf Kattnigg ( born April 9, 1895 the district Töbring the community Treffen in Carinthia, † September 2, 1955 in Klagenfurt) was an Austrian composer, pianist and conductor.

Life

Kattnigg was the son of Medizinalrates. He studied composition with Joseph Marx at the Vienna State Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After completing his music studies, he was appointed professor at this academy in the early 1920s. In 1928 he accepted the position of director of the Innsbruck Conservatory and held at the same time the position of the conductor of the local symphony orchestra. This activity changed with engagements in Vienna and Zurich. After he was dismissed in 1934 from the Musikverein Innsbruck, he joined the mediation of the Nazi Reich Music Chamber to Berlin and became the pianist at the Reich Broadcasting. Several of his operettas were first performed in Germany.

Kattnigg occurred no later than 1938 in the NSDAP. At the request of July 26, 1938 his party membership was backdated to 1933, and he therefore received the low member number 1620971. Since the annexation of Austria in 1938, he lived first in Villach, but moved to Vienna in 1939, where he was also conductor of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Symphony. In 1941 he wrote the music for the film The Farmer perjury by Ludwig Anzengruber, and took place on December 18, 1942 at the Vienna State Opera, the world premiere of his fairy tale game Hansi flies instead to Negerkral. In 1942 he was awarded a government contract for the composition of the opera Miranda.

Kattniggs compositions include operettas, ballets, symphonies, songs, works for orchestra and choir as well as film music. Characteristic of his compositions is the instrumentation and the processing of melodies, songs and folk melodies of his homeland.

The cities of Villach and Klagenfurt each have a street named after him.

Works (selection)

  • Operettas The Prince of Thule (1935 )
  • Balkans Love ( 1936)
  • Girls from the Rhine
  • Donna Miranda
  • Empress Catherine (1935 )
  • Bel Ami (1949 )
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