Ingomar Grünauer - born 1938 in Melk - belonged in the fifties to the composition class at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna under the aegis of Karl Schiske, which also was attended by Ivan Eröd Kurt Schwertsik, Otto Zykan, Gösta Neuwirth and other renowned Austrian composers of the second half of the twentieth century.
At the beginning of the sixties, he took over the position of musical director at the Municipal Theater of Heidelberg, and was responsible as a composer for numerous stage musicals, before he moved to the Upper Palatinate as a teacher, and later became active in Wiesbaden. In the summer of 1974, a guest lectorate for dramatic music brought him to Brazil. In 1982 he was then employed at the University of Frankfurt, where he taught as professor of aesthetics and communication until his retirement in 2001. His works focus on stage music and music theater, which have been performed internationally and throughout the German-speaking countries.
Period | Education | Instrument | Teacher | Education Organisation | Location |
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1950 - 1961
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conducting | ||||
1950 - 1959
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composition | ||||
1957 - 1961
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repeated participation | ||||
1959
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diploma in conducting | ||||
1961
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diploma in conducting |
Period | Activity | Organisation | Location |
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1961 - 1968
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Theatre Heidelberg: conductor, tutor and composer of incidental music | ||
1968 - 1973
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teaching at various schools in the Upper Palatinate | ||
1973 - 1982
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teacher at various schools | ||
1974
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University Salvador, Bahia: guest teacher for scenic music | ||
1982 - 2001
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University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt: professor of aesthetics and communication with research and teaching focus on "theater-work" and "Cultural Animation" |
Period | Performance | Composition | Organisation | Location |
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1958
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gala concert of the young generation | |||
1971
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Theater Kiel | |||
1978
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Music Theatre Gelsenkirchen | |||
1990
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State Theater Lucerne | |||
1994
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Internationale Music Weeks Lucerne | |||
1997
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2000
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University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt | |||
2000
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Theatre Trier: as part of Expo 2000 in Hanover | |||
2002
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Philharmonic Orchestra Erfurt | |||
2007
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Opera Halle an der Saale |
Period | Commission | Composition | Commissioner (Organisation) | Commissioner (Person) |
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1978
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Hessian State Theatre Wiesbaden | |||
1988
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2004
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Opera House Halle an der Saale | |||
Städtische Bühnen Heidelberg | ||||
Saarland State Theatre Saarbrücken | ||||
International Music Festival Lucerne | ||||
Ministry of Culture of Baden-Württemberg | ||||
Period | Award | Composition | Awarding Organisation |
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1960
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First Prize in the international composition competition | ||
1966
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culture week award | ||
1969
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promotional award | ||
1982
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Stadt Wiesbaden: culture award |
Waiver of linear structures and developments; discontinuity, static circuits, installation of contradictory elements (but no polystylism), fragment character, psychogram, strongly influenced by the late Schubert, focusing on musical theater/opera; substances: alienation, isolation, and also utopias.
Ingomar Grünauer, 1997