Max Schönherr

Max Schönherr ( born November 23, 1903 in Marburg an der Drau, today Maribor, † December 13, 1984 in Baden bei Wien ) was an Austrian composer, conductor and writer on music.

Life

After studying at the Conservatory of Graz he first double bass player, then a rehearsal pianist and conductor at the Opera House in Graz. 1929-1931 he worked as a conductor at the Theater an der Wien and at the Vienna City Theatre and from 1933 to 1938 at the Vienna Volksoper. Since 1931, he conducted the Vienna station, but in addition also the orchestra of other broadcasters and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. After the Second World War, he was commissioned to edit the Austrian national anthem after Mozart melody. 1952, the title of professor in 1954 the Joseph Marx prize he was awarded for composition. Schönherr devoted himself to the entertainment and music of Viennese operetta. In 1973 he earned his doctorate at the University of Vienna with a dissertation on Carl Michael Ziehrer. Of his works especially the ballet Hotel Sacher became known.

Works (excerpt)

Compositions

• Hotel Sacher ( Ballet, Vienna premiere in 1957 )
• German master Chapel ( operetta, first performance Vienna 1958)
• Vienna Diary (1960 )
• Slavic Panorama (1961 )
• The Mädl from the suburbs ( Overture, 1961)
• Festa musicale (1966 )
• Bomb Waltz (after Johann Strauss, premiere Bayerischer Rundfunk 1967)