Walter Kolneder (1 July 1910 – 30 January 1994) was an Austrian

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

and violist.

Life and career

Koldener was born in

Wels Wels (; Central Bavarian: ''Wös'') is a city in Upper Austria, on the Traun River near Linz. It is the county seat of Wels-Land, and with a population of approximately 60,000, the List of cities and towns in Austria, eighth largest city in Aus ...

Upper Austria Upper Austria ( ; ; ) is one of the nine States of Austria, states of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, and Salzburg (state), Salzbur ...

. From 1925 to 1935 he studied music with

Bernhard Paumgartner Bernhard Paumgartner (born 14 November 1887 in Vienna; died 27 July 1971 in Salzburg) was an Austrian conductor, composer and musicologist. He is most famous for being Herbert von Karajan's composition teacher at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, wher ...

(conducting), Theodor Müller (violin) and Friedrich Frischenschlager (composition) at the

Mozarteum Mozarteum University Salzburg ( German: ''Universität Mozarteum Salzburg'') is one of three affiliated but separate (it is actually a state university) entities under the "Mozarteum" name in Salzburg municipality; the International Mozarteu ...

in Salzburg. He also attended a

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for viola with Max Strub and was a member of the Mozarteum orchestra (1929-1936). Privately he studied composition with Johann Nepomuk David in Wels from 1927 to 1929. In 1934/35, he began musicological studies at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

. In 1936 he became head of department at the Conservatory of the and in 1939

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at the State College for Music Education in Graz-Eggenberg. In the post-war period, he was initially active as a conductor in Wels. From 1947 to 1953, he was deputy principal violist at the . He continued his studies with Wilhelm Fischer at the

University of Innsbruck The University of Innsbruck (; ) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669. It is the largest education facility in the Austrian States of Austria, ...

and in 1949 he was awarded the doctorate with his dissertation ''Die vokale Mehrstimmigkeit in der Volksmusik der österreichischen Alpenländer''. Kolneder taught at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg from 1953 to 1959. In 1956, he

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as a professor of musicology with a thesis on

Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist, impresario of Baroque music and Roman Catholic priest. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lif ...

at the

Saarland University Saarland University (, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in six faculties that cover all major ...

in Saarbrücken, where he became

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. From 1959 to 1965 he was director of the . From 1960 he also taught in Gießen. Between 1966 and 1972 he was rector of the

Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe The Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe () is a college of music in Karlsruhe, Germany. Originally the Baden Conservatory of Music, it was elevated to a Hochschule under the direction of Franz Philipp, who led the school from 1924 to 1942. Studies ...

. He became extraordinary professor for musicology at the

University of Karlsruhe The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; ) is both a German public university, public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, and a research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Ka ...

in 1966 and founded the Institute for Musicology. He retired in 1974. Koldener was engaged in the history and repertoire of violin playing. He published studies on

and

Anton Webern Anton Webern (; 3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist. His music was among the most radical of its milieu in its lyric poetry, lyrical, poetic concision and use of then novel atonality, aton ...

. He also edited the complete edition of

Tomaso Albinoni Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo cantatas. While famous in his day as an opera co ...

's instrumental music. Furthermore, he dedicated himself to the Austrian

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. In addition, he published baroque instrumental music of the 17th and 18th century and its arrangements. Koldener died in

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( ; ; ; South Franconian German, South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, third-largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, after its capital Stuttgart a ...

at the age of 84.

Awards

* 1986: Kulturpreis des Landes Oberösterreich for music

Work

* ''Aufführungspraxis bei Vivaldi.'' First published in 1955, New edition by Amadeus Verlag 1999, . * ''Das Buch der Violine''. Atlantis Musikbuch, . * ''Antonio Vivaldi, Dokumente seines Lebens und Schaffens''. Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven, . * ''Die Kunst der Fuge. Mythen des 20. Jahrhunderts''. Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1977, . * ''Johann Sebastian Bach. Lebensbilder''. Lübbe Verlag, . * ''Lübbes Bach-Lexikon (Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch Band 61288)'', Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1994, . * ''Musikinstrumentenkunde Ein Studien- und Prüfungshelfer''. Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven, . * ''Geschichte der Musik. Ein Studien- und Prüfungshelfer''. Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven, . * ''Schule des Generalbassspiels''. Part I: The instrumental music. First publication 1983, Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven, . * ''Singen nach Noten. Praktische Musiklehre für Chorsänger zum Erlernen des Vom-Blatt-Singens''. ''Singen nach Noten. Praktische Musiklehre für Chorsänger zum Erlernen des Vom-Blatt-Singens''
on Google Books (Edited with Karl Heinz Schmitt), Schott Verlag, 2 volumes, and .

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