Paul Angerer

Paul Angerer ( born May 16, 1927 in Vienna) is an Austrian conductor and composer.

Life

Paul Angerer studied at the Vienna Academy of Music Piano, Organ, Violin and Viola. After he won in 1948 at the Geneva Music Competition a medal, he took a position with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. From 1953 to 1956 he was principal violist of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. After winning the first prize for organ composition on the international music competition in Haarlem, The Netherlands, he was until 1962 chief conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the Vienna Burgtheater.

Between 1964 and 1982, Angerer chief conductor or director of the opera houses of Bonn and Ulm and 1968-1972 opera director of the Salzburg State Theater. From 1971 to 1981 he headed the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra and from 1982 Concilium Musicum in the Vienna. With these orchestras he made a number of highly esteemed recordings. In 1982 he became a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts, where he remained until his retirement in 1992.

Paul Angerer hosted for 17 years in the ORF, since November 2001, he designed his own show, Capriccio, at Radio Stephansdom. He lives in Vienna and in his Freihofstraße in Unternalb at Retz, Lower Austria.

Angerer's compositional style was influenced by Paul Hindemith.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Musica per organo. Factory 18 (1946 )
  • Konzertantes Quartet, 1951. Oboe, horn, viola, cello (1951 )
  • Sempre legato. Pentagonum for piano (1953 )
  • Agamemnon must die ( dramatic cantata, 1954)
  • "Why do you fine horsemen." Music for Four Voices (1954 )
  • The passport control ( television opera, 1958)
  • Missa Seitenstettensis (1987 )
  • Günter Brooch ( Red ) -: Musical Documentation Paul Angerer. Tuesday, November 15, 1988 concert -. Exhibition, Hoboken Hall of the Music Collection of the Austrian National Library, Vienna ( to March 1989). Austrian National Library, Vienna 1988.
  • My life in music - Capriccio. Always the same - never the same. Wiener Dom- Verlag, Wien 2010, ISBN 978-3-85351-222-7.
  • -, 107.3 Radio Stephansdom: Paul Angerer reads " stories from my musical life." 1 CD. Wiener Dom- Verlag, Wien 2010, ISBN 978-3-85351-226-5.

As well as concerts and chamber music works.

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