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Petyrek Lang Lied Competition
Call for Lied Competition Entries
The mdw holds the Lied Competition of the Petyrek-Lang Foundation every three years. It takes place before a public audience and features alternating repertoire.
The next competition will be announced here.
According to the foundation’s bylaws, this competition is open to all students who are enrolled at Austrian arts universities either as degree students or as certificate programme participants (excepting postgraduates) at the point in time at which the competition takes place.
All further details concerning prizes, registration dates, participation fees, and rules of participation will be announced in a timely manner.
Winners of the 8th Lied Competition of the Petyrek-Lang Foundation:
2nd Prize: Mayu Kawada (accompanist: Mayuko Obuchi)
(€ 1,500)
2nd Prize: Jakob Nistler (accompanist: Mayuko Obuchi)
(€ 1,500)
3rd Prize: Anna Ryabenkaya (accompanist: Gregor Hanke)
(€ 1,000)
About Felix Petyrek
Felix Petyrek was born on 14 May 1892 in present-day Brno as a son of the Imperial Councillor, choirmaster, and organist August Petyrek. It was hence surrounded by a strong musical heritage that Felix Petyrek subsequently grew up in Vienna and Perchtoldsdorf, with the father—like his own father before him—providing the family’s children with basic instruction on the piano and in music theory. After studying at the Academy in Vienna (under figures including Franz Schreker, Leopold Godowsky, and Emil von Sauer) and receiving his diploma along with numerous honours, this gifted pianist and composer went on to pursue activities and absorb artistic stimuli in numerous places around Europe.
Bernhard Paumgartner appointed him to a post at the Mozarteum in 1919, after which Georg Schünemann called him to Berlin. Petyrek soon became known as an outstanding teacher. (…) Universal-Edition published his compositions for a period that reached into the 1930s. His initial Lieder had been published in 1909 by Eberle in Vienna (…). By the 1920s, he stood alongside Hindemith, Krenek, Hába, and others as part of contemporary music’s avant-garde. (…)
In spite of (…) his success, Petyrek remained a modest and endearing person, always standing in the background behind others but mercilessly strict towards himself. (…)
A serious illness forced Petyrek to give up his Berlin position in 1923, and an extended stay in a clinic in Arlesheim was followed by several years living in Abbazia (now Opatija, Croatia); there, he founded vacation courses and a “free class” that, from the summer of 1926, took place at the Mozarteum. The autumn of that year saw him accept an invitation to the Athens Conservatoire, and in 1930 he returned to Germany to succeed Wilhelm Kempff at the Württemberg Music Academy in Stuttgart. (…)
His piano partner, Helene Renate Lang, became his second wife in 1938. That year, Petyrek had been appointed to a professorship in piano and composition at the Academy of Music in Leipzig as the successor of Hermann Grabner. It was there and as a pianist that he worked until the end of World War Two, after which he lost his post and returned to Vienna only in 1848 following a wild odyssey; in Vienna, he led a modest existence as a contract lecturer at the Academy. [Petyrek] lived out the rest of his days at the now-demolished barracks on Landstraßer Hauptstraße and was buried at the Perchtoldsdorf Cemetery in December 1951.
From: Musikfreunde – Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien. Vol. 10, no. 7, April 1998
Rights
The participating performing artists grant this competition’s organiser the right to make gainful use of the lectures and performances of literary and musical works in which they participate in the sense of §§ 66–71a of the Austrian Copyright Act (UrhG). For the cession of this right, it is explicitly recognised that there exists no separate claim to remuneration. Unaffected by this agreement are claims that can be made to the relevant collecting societies.
With regard to any video or audio recordings as well as to any radio, television, or Internet broadcasts of the competition, participating composers and authors grant this competition’s organiser the right to make gainful use of such material in accordance with §§ 14–18a of the Austrian Copyright Act (UrhG). For the cession of this right, it is explicitly recognised that there exists no separate claim to remuneration. Unaffected by this agreement are claims that can be made to the relevant collecting societies.
The awarding organisation reserves the right to record all competition proceedings as well as the final concert for use in radio and television productions as well as to use and archive the video and audio material in any form that it desires for PR and advertising purposes. The awarding organisation has the right to use the names of the awardees in connection with the names of the awards for PR activities on its own behalf. The awardees declare themselves willing to participate in a press conference and make themselves available for interviews as part of receiving their awards. For all of these measures, participants and awardees are entitled to no remuneration. By registering to compete, participants consent to the publication of their curricula vitae and/or photographs via various media.
Contact
Kerstin Pichler
Department of Vocal Studies and Music Theatre
Penzinger Straße 7, 1140 Vienna
T +43 1 71155-2701
F +43 1 71155-2709
ziegler-k@mdw.ac.at
mdw.ac.at/petyrek-lang-stiftung
