Otto Matthäus Zykan was an Austrian composer and pianist.
Education
He studied at the Vienna Music Academy, where his teachers included Karl Schiske (composition), Bruno Seidlhofer and Josef Dichler (piano). He also attended the Darmstadt summer courses (1958, 1964–1966), winning the Kranichstein Music Prize of the international piano competition on his first visit.
Career
Zykan"s most characteristic works are his ‘total art productions’, in which processes of permutation extend to movement, sounds and linguistic elements alike, sometimes producing compromise and sometimes distortion, and often reducing critical comment to the absurd. As a result, a number of compositions have been lost. He has also created television advertisements for well-known firms.
Among his works are two operas, 1980"s Kunst kommt von Gönnen and Auszählreim of 1986.