Erich Marckhl
Erich Marckhl (3 February 1902 in Celje – 8 July 1980 in Graz) was an Austrian musicologist and composer.[1]
Life
[edit]Erich Marckhl received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1925 . From 1926 to 1936 he worked as an educator at the Bundes-Erziehungsanstalt Wien XIII, formerly a cadet school, but was dismissed for political reasons (membership in the illegal NSDAP ).[2] He then taught from 1937 to 1939 at the teacher training college in Dortmund . In 1939 he became "Specialist Inspector for Music at Higher Schools" in Vienna.[1] In 1940–45 professor for music education at the Vienna State Academy of Music (today University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna ).[2] At the music academies in Vienna he held a seminar for music education and a provisional teacher examination board.[3]
Due to his National Socialist past, he initially remained unemployed in 1945 and lived with the support of the Gottfried von Einem family in Ramsau am Dachstein (1945/46) and in Plomberg am Mondsee (1946–48).[2] In 1948 he became director, 1949-52 director of the Municipal Music School in Kapfenberg. In 1948, Marckhl was given the newly established small seminar for music education at the Johann Joseph Fux Conservatory in Graz . In 1963, Marckhl, became the President of University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in addition to that of being a professor. In 1965, Marckhl founded a cultural and university center in Oberschützen in Burgenland.[1][4]
Awards
[edit]- Great Austrian State Prize for Music (1968)[2]
- Mozart Medal (Mozartgemeinde) by the Mozart Society Vienna (1971)[1]
- Joseph Marx Music Prize from the State of Styria (1972)[1]
Further reading
[edit]- Barbara Boisits: Schulz, Familie In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon. Online-edition, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3077-5; printed edition: 4th edition, published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5.
- Werba, Erik (1972). Erich Marckhl (in German). Österreichischer Bundesverlag. ISBN 978-3-215-62207-6.
External links
[edit]- Works by and about Erich Marckhl in the catalog of the German National Library
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Forschungen, Institut für kunst-und musikhistorische (2002). "Marckhl, Erich Christiane Hauser" (in German).
- ^ a b c d "Österreichischer Kunstsenat - Erich Marckhl". www.kunstsenat.at. Austrian Art Senate. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ^ Werba, Erik (1972). Erich Marckhl (in German). Österreichischer Bundesverlag. ISBN 978-3-215-62207-6.
- ^ Schollum, Robert (January 1962). "Der Komponist Erich Marckhl". Österreichische Musikzeitschrift. 17 (4). doi:10.7767/omz.1962.17.4.183. S2CID 163413623.
