Leopold Spinner

Leopold Spinner ( born April 26, 1906 in Lviv, † August 12 1980 in London ) was a Galician -born, later living in exile in Britain Austrian composer and publisher.

Life

Spinners Austrian parents lived at the time of his birth in Lviv. From 1926 to 1930 he studied composition in Vienna with Paul Amadeus Pisk and received his doctorate as a musicologist. He then gained international recognition with both his works which have been performed at the ISCM World Music Days, as well as by prices. Nevertheless, he took again from 1935 to 1938 studied with Anton Webern.

Spinner became one of the major representatives of the Second Viennese School. In 1939 he was forced to emigrate to England and spent the following years in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Then he worked as an editor and Musikkopist and 1954 he moved to London. From 1958 until his retirement in 1975 he worked as an editor at Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, estimated in the highest degree because of his knowledge and accuracy, for example, by Igor Stravinsky.

Writings

• The recitative in the romantic opera until Wagner, PhD ( typewritten ), Vienna 1931