Erhard Karkoschka, Czech composer. Recipient Esslingen award, Kunstlergilde, 1954, Reklinghausen award, 1956, Stuttgart award, 1957, National Olympic Committee award, 1958, Stamitz prize, 1961, 76, German Choral Society award, 1981, International Competition Montserrat, 1982, Art Foundation Baden-Wuerttemberg award, 1999. Member Free Academy Arts Mannheim.
Background
Karkoschka was born in the German linguistic enclave of Moravská Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, and subsequent to World World War II became a violinist for the Bayreuth Symphony Orchestra, leading to studies in composition, musicology and conducting at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart and the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Education
Student, State College Music, Stuttgart, Germany, 1948—1953. State examination in conducting, 1950. State examination in composition, 1959.
Doctor in Music, University Tubingen, Germany, 1959. Professor, 1964.
Career
His doctoral thesis was an analysis of the compositional techniques in the early works of Anton Webern. From 1948 until 1968, he directed the choir and orchestra at the University of Hohenheim, the former Agricultural College, and the "Hohenheimer Schloßkonzerte". In 1958, he taught at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart (Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart).
Then in 1962, he founded his Ensemble for New Musik, which eventually broke away from the school in 1976 and was renamed the Contac-Ensemble.
In 1973, he became the director of the Studio for Electronic Music in the Stuttgart Hochschule until his retirement in 1987. Erhard Karkoschka wrote a book on musical notation, published in German, English and Japanese.
"Das Schriftbild der neuen Musik", 1965. The extent of his compositions includes works for orchestra, chamber music and scenic music for various instruments, organ works, works for electronic instruments, cantatas, motets, psalms and songs, as well as "instructions" for group improvisation, and "music for musicians and audience".
He died in Stuttgart in 2009.
Notation of New Music, Moeckverlag Celle 1965 (Universal Edition London 1972)
Analysis of new music, Döring Publisher Herrenberg 1976
New Music - Listening - Understanding, Döring Publisher Herrenberg 1978
Essay on Webern"s use of the guitar in his Opera 10, 18 and 19 Nova Giulianiad, Volume 3/Near
Achievements
Membership
Member Free Academy Arts Mannheim.
Connections
Married Rothraut Leiter, 1950. Children: Dietlind-Annette, Erich, Oliver, Urs.