Josef Reiter (composer)

Josef Reiter (born 19 January 1862 in Braunau am Inn, † June 2, 1939 in Bad Reichenhall ) was an Austrian music teacher, choir director, conductor and composer.

Life and work

Reiter was the son of Franz Reiter ( * November 26, 1835 in Bad Ischl, † November 27, 1888 in Linz- Urfahr, teacher, organist, voice teacher and composer of more than 400 church compositions and settings of Stelzhamer poems ), attended high school and the teacher training institute in Linz and then worked in various places in Upper Austria as a teacher.

After passing the state examination for organ, piano and vocals in 1884, he taught from 1886 to 1889 singing at a school for girls in Hernals and was then 1886-1908 music teacher at a school in Margaret. In addition, he taught from 1886 to 1893, first piano lessons and later singing and organ at the Horak'schen music schools in Vienna. He had a larger band of admirers who in 1899 joined forces in German - nationally oriented Josef Riders Club. His one-act play The Bundschuh 1900 is listed under the direction of Gustav Mahler at the Vienna Court Opera.

From 1908 to 1911 he was director of the Salzburg Mozarteum. He founded and conducted several choirs and lived from 1912 as a freelance artist in Vienna again, where was appointed from 1917 to 1918 by his librettist and friend Max von Millenkovich as Kapellmeister of the Court Theatre.

From 1921 he regularly stayed on at Castle Riedegg at Gallneukirchen and in Bavarian Gmain. He was, inter alia, Member of Innviertler Artist Guild. Because of his apparent enthusiasm for Adolf Hitler 's artistic ambitions were promoted in the 1930s, especially in Germany.

Reiter is buried in a grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery.

Works

He became famous for his songs and Chorkompsitionen, while his operas were not successful. His orchestral and chamber music works are based on the classical.

  • The Bundschuh (1894 )
  • Klopstock in Zurich (1894 )
  • Dance of the Dead (1908 )
  • The Tell ( 1917)
  • Incidental music to Ferdinand Raimund The farmer as a millionaire (1918 )
  • Goethe- Symphonie (1931, dedicated to Adolf Hitler)
  • Cantata on the port ( 1938)
  • Measuring
  • 150 Songs and Ballads
  • 300 choirs
  • 40 piano and organ works
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