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He is a composer and orchestral conductor born in
Vienna, Austria. When he was a
child his musical ability became obvious and when he was 14 he entered the Vienna
Music Academy to study composition, theory piano, organ and violin, later
including the viola. He
graduated in 1946 and became a violist in the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and
in 1948 he won a gold medal at the Geneva Music Competition that got him noticed
and led to a position in the Orchester de la Suisse Romande. He returned to the Vienna Symphony
Orchestra in 1953 as the principal violist but still continued to enter
competitions. His organ
composition, which he entered into an international competition, won him
first prize. This pushed him
to resign his violist post and take on the position of conductor with the
orchestra instead, as well as taking on the same post at the Vienna
Burgtheater where he also had the opportunity to compose music for
shows. In 1964 he accepted the position as Principal Conductor at
the Bonn Opera and in the same period he was making recordings on a
regular basis, gaining recognition for his recordings of Mozart and
Haydn
in collaboration with Alfred Brendel and the
Vienna Chamber Orchestra. His career moved on from Bonn to Ulm and then he accepted the
post of Music Director in the South-West
German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim
where he
would stay from 1972 until 1982.
From then he would only take on positions as a guest conductor and
joined the faculty of the Vienna Hochschule fur Musik. As a composer his compositions
include oratorios, a musical, orchestral works, stage works, a TV opera and
chamber pieces. He retired in
1992 after having a successful career where he was the recipient of the
Austrian State Award, the Culture Award for the City of Vienna and the
State of Lower Austria's Prize in Mozart Research among many others. During his retirement though he has
continued giving radio broadcasts on Austrian National Radio, which he has
been doing for the last 17 years, and since 2001 has had his own series Capriccio
for the station Radio Stephansdom.
He also performs with his ensemble, Concillium musicum Wien.
South-west
German Chamber Orchestra
recordings
Charles-Valentin Alkan
VOX 0 47163 50982
Conductor - Paul Angerer
Piano - Michael
Ponti
Sources:
- http://www.concilium.at/emainpangerer.htm
- http://www.answers.com/topic/paul-angerer
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