Karl Schütz (17 April 1936 – 13 October 2020) was an Austrian music pedagogue, church musician and organ researcher.
Career
Schütz was born in
Vienna
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. He passed the teachers' examination for German and music education, and in 1964 he received his doctorate. From 1975 to 2003 he was professor for organology at the
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817.
With a student body of over three thous ...
. Since 1953 he has been organist at the
Pfarrkirche St. Anton von Padua in Vienna.
Karl Schütz was commander in chief of the
Order of the Holy Sepulchre
The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem ( la, Ordo Equestris Sancti Sepulcri Hierosolymitani, links=yes, OESSH), also called Order of the Holy Sepulchre or Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, is a Catholic order of knighthood under ...
in Vienna.
Schutz died in Vienna on 13 October 2020 at the age of 84.
Im Jahr 2020 sind in die ewige Heimat vorausgegangen
Further reading
* Christian Fastl
Schütz, Karl
in ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon
The ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon'Oesterreichisch'' with ''Oe'' is the spelling of the print and online output. is a five-volume music encyclopedia founded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Commission for Music Research. It was officiall ...
''. Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ; Printed edition: Volume 4, published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2005.
References
External links
*
Entry in the Österreichischen Organ-Databank
1936 births
2020 deaths
Musicians from Vienna
Austrian classical organists
Academic staff of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
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