René Clemencic

Clemencic [ kle ː rə'ne ' məntʃitʃ ] ( born February 27, 1928 in Vienna) is an Austrian musicologist, conductor, composer, organist, harpsichordist and recorder player.

Clemencics ancestors came from different regions of the former Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy, including Istria and Croatia. His father was a notary and spoke only Italian with him. He studied philosophy and musicology at the University of Vienna and at the Sorbonne. With the dissertation being and consciousness at Louis Lavelle, he obtained a doctoral degree at the University of Vienna.

Clemencic studied recorder and harpsichord in Vienna, the Netherlands and Berlin. He also studied musical theory of forms, as well as music theory 's twelve. In 1957 he founded the historical performance ensemble Clemencic Consort, in a variable occupation from 2 to 50 musicians.

Clemencic supervised from 1996 to 2005 the Musica Antiqua cycle of the Vienna Musikverein. Since autumn 2005, there is a separate Clemencic Consort cycle in the same house.

The Clemencic Consort plays such as the Carmina Burana with the melodies of the emergence times this collection then popular instruments. Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Johann Joseph Fux and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer are as in as François Couperin and Jean -Philippe Rameau or John Dunstable, Guillaume Dufay and Johannes Ockeghem program.

Clemencic composed, inter alia, the oratorios Kabbalah (1992 ), Apokalypsis (1996 ), Journey to Nineveh (1999), the soundtrack to Molière (1978), the dance pantomime dragon fight ( 1987) and the opera The Mountain (1993). For the siren opera theater he wrote the opera Elle " Moon " (2007), and the chamber opera " night under the stone bridge " (2009) and " Harun and Jafar " (2011).