Kurt Schwertsik
Austrian composer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kurt Schwertsik is an Austrian contemporary composer. He is known for creating the "Third Viennese School" and spreading contemporary classical music. Life Schwertsik was born in Vienna. A pupil of Joseph Marx and Karl Schiske at the Academy of Music, 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 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 while teaching Composition at the Konservatorium Wien . Between 1989 and 2004 he was Professor of Composition at the Vienna Musikhochschule . His works are characterised by his particular exploration of tonality and his musical irony and humour. He received the Grand Austrian State Prize , the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art and numerous other awards.
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