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| birth_place = Vienna, Austria
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| education = [[University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna|Vienna Academy of Music]]
| years_active = 1966–present
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* [[Parody music]]
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[[File:Wien.Stephansdom57.jpg|thumb|Stephansdom, 2006]]
[[File:Wien.Stephansdom57.jpg|thumb|Stephansdom, 2006]]
'''Peter Planyavsky''' (born 9 May 1947) is an [[Austrians|Austrian]] [[organist]] and [[composer]]. He was an organist and music director at [[Vienna]]'s [[St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna|St. Stephen's Cathedral]], and a teacher at the [[University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna|Vienna Academy of Music]]. He composed [[Religious music|sacred music]] and also [[Parody music|parodies]] in the style of [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]], [[Joseph Haydn|Haydn]] and [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]], as P.P. Bach, J.P. Haydn and W.A.P. Mozart.
'''Peter Planyavsky''' (born 9 May 1947) is an [[Austrians|Austrian]] [[organist]] and [[composer]]. He was an organist and music director at [[Vienna]]'s [[St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna|St. Stephen's Cathedral]], and a teacher at the [[University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna|Vienna Academy of Music]]. He composed [[Religious music|sacred music]] and also [[Parody music|parodies]] in the style of [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]], [[Joseph Haydn|Haydn]] and [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]], as P.P. Bach, J.P. Haydn and W.A.P. Mozart.

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Peter Planyavsky, 2011
Stephansdom, 2006

Peter Planyavsky (born 9 May 1947) is an Austrian organist and composer. He was an organist and music director at Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral, and a teacher at the Vienna Academy of Music. He composed sacred music and also parodies in the style of Bach, Haydn and Mozart, as P.P. Bach, J.P. Haydn and W.A.P. Mozart.

Career

Born in Vienna, the son of Alfred Planyavsky, he attended the Schotten gymnasium. At the Vienna Academy of Music, he studied organ, composition and improvisation with Anton Heiller, piano with Hilde Seidlhofer, and conducting with de [Hans Gillesberger]. He graduated with diplomas in organ and church music in 1966.[1][2]

Subsequently, he worked for a year in an organ workshop (intonation and assembly), and in 1968 he was organist in the Upper Austrian de [Stift Schlägl]. From 1969 to 2004, Planyavsky was organist at Vienna's cathedral Stephansdom (St. Stephen's Cathedral), and in the years 1983 to 1990 was Dommusikdirektor, director of music with overall responsibility for the church music at the cathedral.[1]

In 1980 he was appointed professor of organ, improvisation and liturgical organ playing at the Vienna Academy of Music. From 1996 to 2002 he headed the department of church music.[1]

Concert tours and master classes took Planyavsky to many European countries, Japan, Australia, South Africa, Hong Kong, Korea, Canada and the United States.[1] In his master classes he has focused on Anton Heiller, Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn and Baroque music, with an emphasis on improvisation and liturgical organ playing. He has often served as a juror at competitions.[3]

Planyavsky recorded numerous LPs and CDs, such as recordings of all the organ works of Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn.[1]

As a conductor Planyavsky has emerged not only with the great works of sacred music, but also the neglected sector of organ concertos, conducting concertos by Alfredo Casella, Aaron Copland, Howard Hanson, Jean Langlais, Ottorino Respighi, and Leo Sowerby.[3]

Planyavsky composed for organ, choral and orchestral music. His motet for SSATB choir a capella, Der 269. Psalm (Psalm 269), combines text from Psalms 148 and 121.[4][5] One of his specialties is parody.[2] His cantata Der zufriedengestellte Autobus (The contented bus) by P.P. Bach, a parody of a Bach cantata, was given more than 40 times. The cantata "Cactus tragicus", alluding to the title of Bach's Actus tragicus, premiered on 19 February 2004 in Klagenfurt.[6] As J.P. Haydn he composed the Ankunftssymphonie in 1987, as W. A. Plagiavsky Mozart Vier Stücke für die Trompetenuhr (Four pieces for the trumpet clock) in 1989.[2]

As an organ expert, Planyavsky was instrumental in organ-building projects, notably the construction of the new Rieger organ in the Great Hall of the Wiener Musikverein, which he planned in collaboration with Ludger Lohmann, Martin Haselböck, Gillian Weir, and Olivier Latry.[3]

Awards

  • Government Support Prize for Music in 1991 for his choral compositions
  • Orlando di Lasso-Medaille (2004)
  • Golden Medal of the Province of Vienna (2005)
  • Prize for Music of the Republic of Austria (2006)

Selected publications

  • Moritz Reger und andere Schrägheiten. Musikverlag Dr. J. Butz, Sankt Augustin 2005, ISBN 3-928412-04-3.
  • Gerettet vom Stephansdom. Edition VA bENE, Wien 2007, ISBN 3-851671-88-0.
  • Anton Heiller. Alle Register eines Lebens. Edition VA bENE, Wien 2009.
  • Katholische Kirchenmusik. Praxis und liturgische Hintergründe. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 978-3-7022-3094-4.

Selected works

  • Kohelet, cantata for baritone, speaker, choir, organ and percussion, commission of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien (2011)
  • W.A.P. Mozart: Eine nicht gerade kleine Nachtmusik (2005)
  • P.P. Bach, Cactus tragicus, cantata for soprano, tenor, bass, choir and orchestra (LWV 19204) (2004)
  • Hochzeit in Kana, sacred opera (1998)
  • Der 269. Psalm for choir a cappella (1989)
  • W.A.Plagiavsky Mozart: Vier Stücke für die Trompetenuhr (1989)
  • W.A.P. Mozart: Die Schaffnerin aus Liebe, ein höchst bürgerliches Singspiel (1987)
  • J.P. Haydn: Ankunftssymphonie (1987)
  • Die vier Männer im Feuerofen - Eine biblische Ballade für Sopran und Orgel (1985)
  • P.P. Bach: Der zufriedengestellte Autobus (1985)
  • Missa Viennensis (1972)
  • Toccata alla Rumba for organ (1971)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Planyavsky Peter". music austria. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  2. ^ a b c Heindl, Christian (2 May 2012). "Ein Leben nach dem Stephansdom: Peter Planyavsky feiert seinen 65er" (in German). music austria. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  3. ^ a b c Heindl, Christian (26 March 2011). Die neue Orgel der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien / Programmheft zum Einweihungskonzert (in German). Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien.
  4. ^ "Psalmenkonzert im Rahmen der Feierlichkeiten zum 100jährigen Bestehen von St. Nikolaus, Köln-Sülz" (PDF) (in German). fiatars.de. p. 3–4. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  5. ^ "Der 269. Psalm / (Lobet den Herrn vom Himmel her)". musicanet.org. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  6. ^ "Cactus tragicus / Kantate für Sopran, Tenor, Bass, Chor und Orchester (LWV 19204)" (PDF) (in German). Doblinger. Retrieved 7 February 2013.

External links

Austrian music educators

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