Ingomar Grünauer

Ingomar Grünauer is a contemporary Austrian composer. The focus of his work is on pieces in smaller forms for music theatre. His opera Cantor - Die Vermessung des Unendlichen, which deals with the existential conflicts in the life of the revolutionary mathematician Georg Cantor, was premiered on 10 November 2006 at the Halle Opera House under the direction of Roger Epple.

Main works

Chamber opera Lipmanns Leib
Chamber opera Die Schöpfungsgeschichte des Adolf Wölfli
Opera Amleth und Fengo
musikalisches Kammerspiel Die Mutter
Chamber operetta in 17 sensitive pictures Die Rache einer russischen Waise
Opera in 11 scenes Winterreise.

Education and career

1950–1961: Studies at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien: Conducting, piano and composition
1959: artistic Maturity Examination in Conducting and music composition
1957, 1959 and 1961: Participation in the Darmstädter Ferienkurse.
1961–1968: Kapellmeister and Korrepetitor at the Theater & Orchester Heidelberg.
1968–1982: Teacher in primary, secondary and comprehensive schools in Schwandorf and in Wiesbaden.
1974: Assistant lecturer in scenic music at the University of Salvador da Bahia.
Since 1982: Professor for aesthetics and communication an der Fachhochschule Frankfurt.

Prizes and awards

1960: First Prize at the International Composition Competition of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
1966: Cultural Week Prize of the City of Innsbruck
1969: Promotion Prize of the Province of Lower Austria
1982: Culture Prize of the City of Wiesbaden

Composition commissions

Musiktheater Gelsenkirchen
Städtische Bühne Heidelberg
Staatstheater Stuttgart
Staatstheater Wiesbaden
Kultusministerium Baden-Württemberg
Stadttheater Luzern
Theater Basel
ORF
Staatstheater Saarbrücken
Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur des Staates Österreich

Work

Besichtigung, Versteigerung und Beseitigung von 5 Künstlern for soprano, stummen Schauspieler und Instrumente 20’ Auktion, Besichtigung, Versteigerung und Beseitigung von 5 Künstlern Concertante version of the stage work of the same name for soprano, silent actor and instruments 20’Peer Gynt ballet music after Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Grieg, libretto by Robert Trinchero 95’Die Schöpfungsgeschichte des Adolf Wölfli Music theatre for six singers, string quintet and percussion, libretto by Ingomar Grünauer 80’Amleth und Fengo Opera in two acts, libretto after Historia Danica of the Saxo Grammaticus by Ingomar Grünauer 75’Sinfonietta for mezzo-soprano, tenor, solo clarinette and orchestra, text by Franz Kafka 19’Die Mutter Musical chamber play based on the novel of the same name by Maxim Gorky for eleven singers, violin and percussion 80’König für einen Tag Opera in three acts after [Pedro Pedro Calderón de la Barca|Calderón de la Barca|Calderón], text by Ingomar Grünauer after Calderón and Hugo von Hofmannsthal 85’Die Rache einer russischen Waise Chamber operetta in 17 sensitive pictures after the play of the same name by Henri Rousseau, arrangement of the text by Matthias Kaiser and Ingomar Grünauer 80’Winterreise Opera in 11 scenes, text by Francesco Micieli 85’.Trilogy der Sommerfrische Opera in three acts by Carlo Goldoni, libretto by Francesco Micieli 90’Palermo-Musik for accordion and Orchestra 20’Cantor – Die Vermessung des Unendlichen one-act opera 90’.