Bernhard Paumgartner |

Bernhard Paumgartner

Born into a family of musicians. Father – Hans Paumgartner – pianist and music critic, mother – Rosa Papir – chamber singer, vocal teacher.

Studied with B. Walter (music theory and conducting), R. Dinzl (fp.), K. Stiegler (harmony). In 1911-12 he was a corporator at the Vienna Opera, in 1914-17 he was a conductor of the orchestra of the Vienna Society of Musicians.

In 1917-38 and in 1945-53 director, in 1953-59 president of the Mozarteum (Salzburg). In 1929 he organized the orchestra. Mozart, with whom he toured in different countries. From 1945 he led the Mozarteum orchestra – Camerata academica (in 1965 he toured with him to the USSR).

One of the initiators (together with M. Reinhard) of music festivals in Salzburg (1920; president since 1960). Since 1925 professor.

In 1938-48 he lived in Florence, studied the history of opera. During the 1st World War 1914-18 he released a large collection of soldiers’ songs. In 1922 he republished Leopold Mozart’s Violin School and at the same time published Taghorn, a collection of texts and melodies of the Bavarian-Austrian minnesang (together with A. Rottauscher), in 1927, the popular science monograph V. A. Mozart” (1973).

Author of a monograph on F. Schubert (1943, 1974), Memoirs (Erinnerungen, Salzb., 1969). Reports and essays were published posthumously (Kassel, 1973).

Author of musical works, including the operas The Hot Iron (1922, Salzburg), The Salamanca Cave (1923, Dresden), Rossini in Naples (1936, Zurich), ballets (The Salzburg Divertissement, to music Mozart, post. 1955, etc.), orchestral pieces.

T. H. Solovyova