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Erik Freitag

b. 1940

Austrian composer

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About Erik Freitag

Born 1940. Erik Freitag is an Austrian composer.

Erik Freitag (born 1 February 1940) is an Austrian composer and violinist.

Life Born in Vienna, Freitag studied violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, with, among others, Eduard Melkus and composition with Karl-Birger Blomdahl at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

From 1964 to 1967, he was violinist in the Sveriges Radio Symfoniorchester and from 1967 to 1970 in the Stockholms Filharmoniska Orchester. He then directed the Vienna-Ottakring Music School until 2003. In 1987, together with and René Staar, he founded the "Ensemble Wiener Collage", which is dedicated to the interpretation of contemporary works, especially by Austrian composers.

Awards 1975: Förderungspreis des Bundesministeriums für Unterricht und Kunst 1979: Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien 1988: Theodor Körner Prize 1996: Composer in Residence der Northwestern University of Michigan

Work

Hymnus – cantata for speaker, tenor, mixed choir, alto flute, harp, vibraphone and violin, 1970 Kleine Suite für Streicher und Klavier, 1972 Moving Studies – Szenen für Tänzer, 1973 Drei Stücke für Streichquartett, 1976 Drei Miniaturen für Klavier zu vier Händen, 1977 Divertimento für Bläserquintett, 1977 Transformationen – für Violine und Klavier nach der lettischen Weise "Araji, ecetaji", 1978 Suite für Orchester – aus ‘Moving Studies’, 1978 Limericks – (5 songs for mezzo and 6 instruments), 1978 Zwei Sätze für Streicher, 1980 Sonate (Nachtstücke) für Violine und Viola, 1980 Suite für die Jugend for Orchestra, 1981 Elegie und Tanz für Oboe und Streichquartett, 1981 Ouverture danoise for Orchestra, 1982 El retablo de la catedral de Tarragona, 1982, 1992, 2000 Quasi una marcia for chamber orchestra, 1983 Strindberg – Licht und Schatten – (ljus och skugga), 1985, 2008 Linee per violino solo, 1985 Drei Stücke für Klavier, 1985 Hommage à un grand artiste, 1986 Triade, 1987 Passages in the wind – (baritone and 7 instruments), 1987 Konzert für Violine und Orchester, 1998 Seis canciones castellanas, 1989 Quintett 1989 Zwölf Duos für zwei Violinen, 1990 Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier, 1990 Reflections in air für Streichtrio, 1990 Helle Nacht für Streichorchester, 1990 Augenblick eines Fauns für Altflöte, 1990 Nocturne, 1992 Idun, 1992 Yotziguanazí – Tres leyendas centroamericanas, 1994 Triaphonie I, 1995 Soul-Sky – after the poem by John Gracen Brown, 1995 Immagini, 1995 Circuits Magiques – pour quatuor à cordes, 1996 Triaphonie II, 1997 Triaphonie III, 1998 in der todesstunde von alfons alfred schmidt, Stage play for singers, speaker and 7 instrumentalists, 1998 Quintett 2000 6 Lieder für mittlere Stimme und Schlagzeug, 2000 Triaphonie IV, 2001 Canciones Espanolas Antiguas, 2001 Concerto da Camera for chamber orchestra, 2002 Pablos Galerie, 2004 Marsyas&Apollo, 2004 En svensk jullegend (A Swedish Christmas legend), 2005 Triaphonie V – Omar Khayyam, 2006 Concertino für Marimba und Streicher, 2006

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Royal Swedish Academy of Music, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

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Austrian composer

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Erik Freitag was born on 1 February 1940 in Vienna.

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Erik Freitag is a composer.

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Erik Freitag is Austrian.

Sources & further reading

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· Wikidata: Q1353903

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