Carmen Ottner

Carmen Ottner (2013)

Carmen Ottner (born in the 20th-century in Vienna ^[1] ) is an Austrian musicologist, Theatre studies and General Secretary of the Franz Schmidt association.

Life

Ottner was born as the daughter of trombonist Franz Bahner ([Vienna Philharmonic]). She studied musicology, theatre studies and philosophy at the University of Vienna. She wrote her dissertation on Das Wort-Toneproblem in den Klavierlieder Wilhelm Kienzl s and received her doctorate in 1974.

Since 1985 she has been Secretary General of the Franz Schmidt Society, has published a number of articles on Schmidt and his environment, and has organized conferences. Ottner is also managing director of the Austrian Society for Music and was a member of the editorial board of the Österreichische Musikzeitschrift . She has also written numerous encyclopedia articles and essays on musicological issues.

Ottner is also the editor of Studien zu Franz Schmidt, a multi-volume musicological series.

Publications

• Das Wort-Tonproblem in den Klavierliedern Wilhelm Kienzls. Dissertation, Vienna University, 1974.
• Was damals als unglaubliche Kühnheit erschien. Franz Schrekers Wiener Kompositionsklasse. Studien zu Wilhelm Grosz, Felix Petyrek and Karol Rathaus , ^[2] Frankfurt–Berlin–Bern–Brussels–New York–Vienna : Lang 2000
• Quellen zu Franz Schmidt – 1. Autographen, Drucke, Handschriften, Briefe in Wiener öffentlichen Sammlungen, ^[3] 1985
• Quellen zu Franz Schmidt – 2. Briefe, Autographen, Aufzeichnungen im Privatbesitz, Erinnerungen, 1987

Publisher, editorial activity

• Carmen Ottner (edit.): Franz Schmidt und die österreichische Orgelmusik seiner Zeit: Symposion 1991. ^[4] Doblinger, Vienna 1992, ISBN   3-900695-24-5
• Carmen Ottner (edit.): Musik in Wien 1938–1945. Symposion 2004. Studien zu Franz Schmidt XV, ^[5] Vienna 2004, ISBN   978-3-900695-87-3

References

1. Die Österreichische Nationalbibliothek or Deutsche Nationalbibliothek geben folgende Daten: "ca. Ende 20. Jh./Anfang 21. Jh."
2. Was damals als unglaubliche Kühnheit erschien : Franz Schrekers Wiener Kompositionsklasse : Studien zu Wilhelm Grosz, Felix Petyrek und Karol Rathaus on WorldCat
3. Quellen zu Franz Schmidt on WorldCat
4. Franz Schmidt und die österreichische Orgelmusik seiner Zeit : Symposion 1991 on WorldCat
5. Musik in Wien 1938–1945. Symposion 2004. Studien zu Franz Schmidt on WorldCat

External links

• Literature by and about Carmen Ottner in the German National Library catalogue
• Carmen Ottner on WorldCat