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Danzmayr Wolfgang
- Compositions
- General Information
- Education
- Activities
- Performances (Selection)
- Commissions (Selection)
- Awards
- Description of Style
- Press Reviews
- Performer of (Composition)
- Contact, Links
Compositions
General Information
Education
| Period | Education | Instrument | Teacher | Education Organisation | Location |
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1950 - 1960
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school and private lessons (Christl Hauser) | ||||
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1970
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diploma conducting | ||||
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conducting | |||||
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conducting (Bruno Maderna, Franco Ferrara, Carl Melles) | |||||
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composition | |||||
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composition |
Activities
| Period | Activity | Organisation | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
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1975 - 1976
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managing director | ||
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1997 - 2002
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artistic director of the orchestra | ||
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conductor at various ensembles: Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Lower Austrian Tonkünstlerorchester, Carinthian Symphonic Orchestra, Collegium Musicum Carinthia, die reihe, Ensemble Kreativ etc | |||
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working on the concept and presenter at several events (Akzente, Lange Nacht) | |||
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artistic director | |||
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head of the department for culture | |||
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head of the music department | |||
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working for the studio in Salzburg, occasionally also for a short time in studio in Burgenland ( 1983-84); radio presenter for "Pasticcio" (during the 1980s), "Apropos Klassik", "zeitton" and other programmes on Ö1 | |||
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board member |
Performances (Selection)
| Period | Performance | Composition | Organisation | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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2006
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Nacht der Komponisten | |||
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Denisova/Kornienko: "op.23 / Tocc" | ||||
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String Quartet Cologne: "Zum Beispiel: Isolde" | ||||
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Der entrückte Engel, "Al Mukaffa", "Empedokles" | ||||
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Frauen- cycle | ||||
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Tableau-Prolog, "Trans-Skript" (4th movement), "Liebelei-Walzer" (after A. Schnitzler), "Get up, Salzburg!" |
Commissions (Selection)
| Period | Commission | Composition | Commissioner (Organisation) | Commissioner (Person) |
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several commissions | ||||
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Freundeskreis Bert Hellinger: "und mit Ende beginnt" | ||||
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Liftgesellschaft Zauchensee: "Zachnsee-Idylle" | ||||
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String Sextet Cologne: "Zum Beispiel Isolde", "Eigendynamik zu zweit" | ||||
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Mozart Year 2006 - Salzburg: "Get up, Salzburg!" |
Awards
| Period | Award | Composition | Awarding Organisation |
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1970
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scholarship: master class conducting in Rome | ||
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1973
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Hans Haring promotional award for conductors |
Description of Style
The most important thing in music for me as listener, as well as conductor, is the indescribable. This is also true for the music I write (mainly in a sensational-tactile way with pencil and rubber).
Wolfgang Danzmayr, 1996
Press Reviews
1999
Wolfgang Danzmayr is reaching high, referring to Henry Miller's bleak fears about sense and nonsense of progress as the impulse of his work "Tableaux", written in 1991. However, Danzmayr's composition most easily meets his self-imposed expectations; he even expands, intensifies Miller's fears by his always meditative-sensitive, never modernist mannered tonal language in an impressive way. [...]
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (Wolfgang Fricke)
Performer of (Composition)
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