Erich Urbanner is an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n composer and teacher.

Biography

Urbanner studied from 1955 to 1961 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, in the composition classes of Karl Schiske and Hanns Jelinek

Hanns Jelinek

Hanns Jelinek was an Austrian composer of Czech descent who is also known under the pseudonym Hanns Elin....

, as well as studying piano with Grete Hinterhofer and conducting with Hans Swarowsky

Hans Swarowsky

Hans Swarowsky was an Austrian conductor of Hungarian birth and Jewish descent.Swarowsky was born in Budapest, Hungary. He studied the art of conducting under Felix Weingartner and Richard Strauss...

. At the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music he participated in further composition studies with Wolfgang Fortner

Wolfgang Fortner

Wolfgang Fortner was a German composer, composition teacher and conductor.-Life:Fortner was born in Leipzig. From his parents - both singers - Fortner very early on had intense contact with music...

, Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

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 und Bruno Maderna

Bruno Maderna

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From 1961 he taught score-reading at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, becoming full professor of composition and harmony

Harmony

In music, harmony is the use of simultaneous pitches , or chords. The study of harmony involves chords and their construction and chord progressions and the principles of connection that govern them. Harmony is often said to refer to the "vertical" aspect of music, as distinguished from melodic...

 and counterpoint

Counterpoint

In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices that are independent in contour and rhythm and are harmonically interdependent . It has been most commonly identified in classical music, developing strongly during the Renaissance and in much of the common practice period,...

 in 1969. Between 1969 and 1974 he was director of the seminar for twelve-tone music, and from 1986 to 1989 he was director of the Institute for Electro-acoustic and Experimental Music. Amongst his pupils are the composers Olga Neuwirth

Olga Neuwirth

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, Thomas Larcher

Thomas Larcher

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, Gilles Bellemare

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, Johanna Doderer

Johanna Doderer

-Biography:Doderer was born in 1969 in Bregenz, Austria. She is the great-niece of the Austrian novelist Heimito von Doderer and a great-grand-daughter of the architect Carl Wilhelm von Doderer...

, Miguel del Aguila

Miguel del Aguila

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, James Poke

James Poke

James Poke is a musician, primarily known as artistic director and co-founder of the ensemble Icebreaker .Poke studied music at the University of York and composition with Erich Urbanner at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. With John Godfrey he founded Icebreaker in 1989...

, Lukas Ligeti

Lukas Ligeti

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, Alexander Wagendristl and Gerhard Schedl

Gerhard Schedl

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Amongst Urbanner's compositions are works for solo instruments, chamber music, orchestral works, including a number of concertos, a mass and a requiem as well as several operas. Amongst his many prizes are the Composition Prize of the City of Innsbruck (1980), the Music Prize of the City of Vienna (1984) and the Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria

Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria

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 (2001). He is published by Doblinger Musik Verlag. Since 1968 he has also been active as a conductor.

Operas and Music Theatre Works

• Der Gluckerich or Tugend und Tadel der Nützlichkeit a musical burlesque in 3 acts after Guy de Maupassant
  Guy de Maupassant
  Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents....
  
   (1963)
• Ninive or Das Leben geht weiter an opera in 2 parts (7 scenes) after the Book of Jonah
  Jonah
  Jonah is the name given in the Hebrew Bible to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation...
  
   (1987)
• Johannes Stein or Der Rock des Kaisers monodrama for female speaker, 4 4 male voices and orchestra (1991, 1994)

Orchestral Works

• Prolog for orchestra on "Innsbruck, ich muß dich lassen" (1957)
• Intrada for chamber orchestra (1957)
• Symphony in one movement (1963)
• Serenade for string orchestra (1965)
• Rondeau for large orchestra (1967)
• Theme, 19 Variations and a Postlude for orchestra (1968)
• Kontraste II for orchestra (1970)
• Retrospectives for pieces for large orchestra (1974–75)
• Pastorale for orchestra (1975)
• Sinfonietta 79 for chamber orchestra (1979)
• Sonata Brevis for chamber orchestra (1980)
• Sinfonia concertante for chamber orchestra (1982)
• Multiphonie for large orchestra (1998)
• Begegnungen for large orchestra (2005–06)

Concertos and Concertante Works

• Piano concerto (1958)
• Flute concertino (1959)
• Concertino for organ and string orchestra (1961)
• Dialogue for piano and orchestra (1965)
• Concerto for oboe and chamber orchestra (1966)
• Violin Concerto (1971)
• Concerto Wolfgang Amadeus for 2 orchestra, 3 trombones and celesta (1972)
• Double Bass Concerto (1973)
• Piano Concerto 76 (1976)
• Concerto for Alto Saxophone in Eb and 12 players, 1978
• Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (1981)
• Double Concerto' for flute, clarinet and orchestra (1984)
• Concerto for saxophone quartet and string orchestra (1989)
• Concerto XIII for saxophone quartet and 9 players (1989–90)
• Piano Concerto No. 4, (2002–03)
• Concerto for Accordion and Nine Instruments (2003)

Chamber music

• First String Quartet (1956)
• Second String Quartet (1957)
• Schlag- und Klangfiguren for percussion ensemble (1964)
• Etüde for wind quintet (1965)
• Improvisation III for 10 instruments (1969)
• Improvisation IV for wind quintet (1969)
• Lyrica for 11 instruments (1971)
• Third String Quartet (1972)
• Takes for piano trio (1977)
• Quartetto concertato for string quartet and 6 string duos (1978)
• Nocturne for recorder ensemble (1978)
• Emotions for saxophone quartet (1984)
• Sechs Phan-Tasten und zwei Schlagzeuger for 2 pianos, celesta, harpsichord, positive organ, harmonium and percussion (1980)
• Nonett 1981 for flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor-bass trombone, guitar, piano, violin, cello and double bass (1981)
• Trio mobile for flute, viola and cello (1987)
• ... in Bewegung ... trio in two movements for violin, cello and piano (1990)
• Fourth String Quartet (1991–92)
• Duo for accordion and double bass (1992)
• quasi una fantasia six concertante pieces for 15 instruments (1993)
• begegnung - variation - wiederbegegnung for 12 instrumentalists (1996)
• Quartett for violin, clarinet, tenor saxophone and piano (1998)
• Fifth. String Quartet (2001)
• Duo for Two Guitars, (2003)

Works for Piano

• First Sonatina for piano (1956)
• Second Sonatina for piano (1957)
• Variations for piano (1958)
• Variation for piano (1958)
• Five Pieces for piano (1959)
• Elf Bagatellen for piano (1959)
• Improvisation II for 2 pianos (1966)
• Adagio for piano (1966)
• Variations for piano (1981)
• Thirteen Character Pieces for piano (1988–89)
• Forms in Transformation - Piano Piece (1996)

Works for Solo Instrument and Keyboard

• Eight pieces for flute and piano (1957)
• Five Pieces for violin and piano (1961)
• Burlesque for flute and organ (1973)
• Arioso - Furioso for cello and piano (1980)
• Entfaltung for cello and piano (1999)

Other Solo Works

• Improvisation I for organ (1961)
• Acht Aphorismen - für Flöte, Klarinette und Fagott, 1966
• Four Pieces for viola (1967)
• Five Pieces for flute (1967)
• Solo for violin (1971)
• Ballade for guitar solo 1982
• Zyklus for organ (1993)
• Phantasiestück für Orgel, 1995
• Solo for clarinet in Bb (1997)
• Organ Work 1998 - Suite in Four Movements (1998)
• ... apropos Orgelpunkt ... for guitar solo (1998)
• Reminiscences for solo cello (2005)

Songs and Works for Solo Voices

• Five Songs for mezzo-soprano and small ensemble (1961)
• Das Ahnenbild for soprano and piano (1961)
• Acht ächte Tyroller Liader for soprano, tenor and chamber ensemble (1985)
• Die Tochter des Kerensteiners, Four Scenes for Music after the Fragment of an Unknown Poet from the 12th Century for 5 solo voices and chamber orchestra (1994)
• Four Moritaten for baritone and non-specific instrumental accompaniment (2000)

Vocal Works with Choir

• Missa Benedicte Gentes for 4-part mixed choir and organ (1958)
• Requiem for 4 soloists, mixed choir and orchestra (1982–83)
• Three Movements for mixed choir, soloists and cello after poems from "Die Niemandsrose" by Paul Celan
  Paul Celan
  Paul Celan was a poet and translator...
  
  (1995)

External links

• Erich Urbanner Music Information Centre Austria
• Works published by Doblinger
• Erich Urbanner biography and works on the UE website (publisher)