Austrian musicologist and composer
Erich Marckhl (3 February 1902 in Celje – 8 July 1980 in Graz) was an Austrian musicologist and composer.[1]
Life
Erich Marckhl received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1925 . From 1926 to 1936 he worked as an educator at the Bundes-Erziehungsanstalt Wien XIII, formerly a cadet school, but was dismissed for political reasons (membership in the illegal NSDAP ).[2] He then taught from 1937 to 1939 at the teacher training college in Dortmund . In 1939 he became "Specialist Inspector for Music at Higher Schools" in Vienna.[1] In 1940–45 professor for music education at the Vienna State Academy of Music (today University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna ).[2] At the music academies in Vienna he held a seminar for music education and a provisional teacher examination board.[3]
Due to his National Socialist past, he initially remained unemployed in 1945 and lived with the support of the Gottfried von Einem family in Ramsau am Dachstein (1945/46) and in Plomberg am Mondsee (1946–48).[2] In 1948 he became director, 1949-52 director of the Municipal Music School in Kapfenberg. In 1948, Marckhl was given the newly established small seminar for music education at the Johann Joseph Fux Conservatory in Graz . In 1963, Marckhl, became the President of University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in addition to that of being a professor. In 1965, Marckhl founded a cultural and university center in Oberschützen in Burgenland.[1][4]
