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Kurt Schwertsik
p, voc, *1935 AT, Vienna
Composer / Conductor of Classical
Kurt Schwertsik (born 25 June 1935, Vienna) is an Austrian contemporary composer. He is famous for creating the “Third Viennese School” and spreading contemporary classical music.A pupil of Joseph Marx and Karl Schiske at the Academy of Music in Vienna, he later studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne and Darmstadt. In 1958 he founded the ensemble "die reihe" with fellow composer and conductor Friedrich Cerha (famous for finishing the opera Lulu, by Alban Berg) and later, in 1968, the ensemble "MOB art & tone ART" with Otto Matthäus Zykan and Heinz Karl Gruber. He served as hornist of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra (from 1968) while teaching Composition at the Konservatorium Wien (from 1979). Between 1989 and 2004 he was Professor of Composition at the Vienna Musikhochschule (Academy
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1898: I. Movement on Kagel: 1898 by Mauricio Kagel Continuo on Darmstadt Aural Documents, Box 1 - Composers-Conductors by Various Artists, René Leibowitz, Wolfgang Fortner, Ernst Krenek, Bruno Maderna, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hans Otte, Henri Pousseur, Pierre Boulez, András Mihály, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, Manfred Trojahn, Carmen Maria Carneci, Michael Finnissy, Beat Furrer, Johannes Kalitzke & Gerhard Müller-Hornbach 1898: II. Movement on Kagel: "1898" for Children's Voices and Instruments; Music for Renaissance Instruments by Mauricio Kagel, Armin Rosin, Robert Tucci, Adam Bauer, Kurt Schwertsik, Brigitte Sylvestre, Aloys Kontarsky & Collegium Instrumentale 1898 (arr. for chamber ensemble) on Darmstadt Aural Documents, Box 1 - Composers-Conductors by Various Artists, René Leibowitz, Wolfgang Fortner, Ernst Krenek, Bruno Maderna, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hans Otte, Henri Pousseur, Pierre Boulez, András Mihály, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, Manfred Trojahn, Carmen Maria Carneci, Michael Finnissy, Beat Furrer, Johannes Kalitzke & Gerhard Müller-Hornbach Goldlockchen, Op. 74: I. Fanfare on Schwertsik, K.: Sinfonia-Sinfonietta / Violin Concerto / Shrumpf-Symphonie / Goldlockchen by Kurt Schwertsik, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Dennis Russell Davies 1898: II. Movement on Kagel: 1898 by Mauricio Kagel Goldlockchen, Op. 74: XVII. Freudentanz on Schwertsik, K.: Sinfonia-Sinfonietta / Violin Concerto / Shrumpf-Symphonie / Goldlockchen by Kurt Schwertsik, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Dennis Russell Davies Goldlockchen, Op. 74: IX. Melodram on Schwertsik, K.: Sinfonia-Sinfonietta / Violin Concerto / Shrumpf-Symphonie / Goldlockchen by Kurt Schwertsik, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Dennis Russell Davies Goldlockchen, Op. 74: XV. Melodram on Schwertsik, K.: Sinfonia-Sinfonietta / Violin Concerto / Shrumpf-Symphonie / Goldlockchen by Kurt Schwertsik, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Dennis Russell Davies Goldlockchen, Op. 74: II. Flottes Praludium on Schwertsik, K.: Sinfonia-Sinfonietta / Violin Concerto / Shrumpf-Symphonie / Goldlockchen by Kurt Schwertsik, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Dennis Russell DaviesTrack list and 30sec audio provided by 
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