Rudolf Flotzinger

Rudolf Flotzinger (born 22 September 1939) is an Austrian musicologist. He then pursued concurrent studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1958–1964) and the University of Vienna (1959–1964). At the Academy of Fine Arts he studied music composition with Karl Schiske, and at the University of Vienna he studied musicology with Erich Schenk and Walter Graf.

In 1964 Flotzinger's doctoral dissertation on lute tablatures in Kremsmünster, Die Lautentabulaturen des Stiftes Kremsmünster, was published by the University of Vienna, and he received his doctorate from that institution in 1965. Flotzinger granted the first Dombrowski award for a composer in 1988 to Hannes Kuegerl (1906–1990) who had garnered attention, i.a., with his 1942 Heroic Suite (Heldische Suite) for symphony orchestra, a musical glorification of Germany’s war of aggression at the time, first performed in Graz in 1943.