Sauseng Wolfgang
- Compositions
- General Information
- Education
- Activities
- Performances (Selection)
- Commissions (Selection)
- Awards
- Description of Style
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Compositions
General Information
Education
| Period | Education | Instrument | Teacher | Education Organisation | Location |
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music studies: piano, cello, music theory | |||||
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church music | |||||
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composition | |||||
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composition | |||||
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orchestra conducting | |||||
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music theory | |||||
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1979
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diploma church music with distinction and graduation prize | ||||
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1984
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diploma in orchestra conducting |
Activities
| Period | Activity | Organisation | Location |
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1977 - 2008
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founder and director of the vocal and instrumental ensemble, fostering early and contemporary church music, performances in Austria and abroad | ||
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1977 - 2008
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organist at the Michaelerkirche | ||
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1977 - 2008
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musical director of the television production from the Michaelerkirche ("Aschermittwoch der Künstler"; Artists' Ash Wednesday) | ||
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1982 - 1984
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accompanist | ||
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1982 - 1995
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teacher | ||
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1989 - 1996
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senior professor (Department of Church Music) - music theory and church composition | ||
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1991
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ever since: artistic director of the project "Mozart in St. Michael" (church musical work on 52 Sundays) | ||
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1996
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ever since: senior professor at the Institute for Organ, Organology and Church Music, deputy head of the institute | ||
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1999
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ever since: musical director at the "Wild Summer" (directed by Einar Schleef) | ||
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concerts as organist in Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and England, radio and CD recordings of own original works and those of others | |||
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organisation of the annual international organ festival St. Michael | |||
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lecturer and teacher for courses and seminars at different institutions in Austria |
Performances (Selection)
| Period | Performance | Composition | Organisation | Location |
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1989
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International Organ Festival St. Michael | |||
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1993
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Haller Bachtage | |||
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1996
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portrait concert, performance of several works, among others | |||
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1999
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Festival dell'Aurora di Crotone | |||
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2002
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premiere of the dramatic stage work | |||
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2003
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Probsteikirche Herz Jesu | |||
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2003
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premiere | |||
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2004
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Basilica Concerts (Vbg.) | |||
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2005
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Musica Sacra Paderborn: performance of several commissioned pieces, among others | |||
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2005
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performance of several pieces, among others | |||
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2006
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International Choir Contest | |||
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2006
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Osaka, Japan: conducted at the Symphony-Hall | |||
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2007
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2007
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2009
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premiere | |||
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2013
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premiere |
Commissions (Selection)
| Period | Commission | Composition | Commissioner (Organisation) | Commissioner (Person) |
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1983
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Austrian Catholic Day | |||
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1987
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Austrian Week for Church Music | |||
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1989
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1991
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1992
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Haller Bachtage | |||
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1997
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Erwin Ortner Fund | |||
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2000
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Festival dell'Aurora di Crotone | |||
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2001
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2004
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2005
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Musica Sacra Paderborn: commissioned for three pieces | |||
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numerous commissions by: ORF, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Singers' Association Vienna, Chorus sine nomine, Jeunesse musicale, Carinthian Summer, Festival Organistico Internazionale Città di Treviso, … | ||||
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mainly compositions of spiritual nature - some published by Universal Edition, Doblinger Verlag and Musikverlag Alexander Mayer |
Awards
| Period | Award | Composition | Awarding Organisation |
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1974
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promotional award for music | ||
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1975
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culture award | ||
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1985
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1995
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Erwin Ortner Fund: promotional award | ||
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1997
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promotional award for music |
Description of Style
Always looking for new possibilities to move freely in the conflicting areas of tonality and free tonality, Sauseng mainly works with self-created modes and feels bound to a contemporary "singability" and interpretation of texts in his works.
Wolfgang Sauseng, 1997
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