!!!Fheodoroff, Nikolaus

b. Villach (Carinthia), Sept. 15, 1931, musician. Studied composition 
at the Wiener Vienna Musikhochschule (now University of Music and 
Performing Arts) and at the University of Vienna; from 1964-1991 head 
of the department of music of the Carinthian provincial studio of the 
Austrian broadcasting corporation ORF; 1967-1991 director of the ORF 
chamber orchestra. Highly esteemed for promoting musical life in 
Carinthia (choir-master of the Carinthian madrigal choir, chairman of 
the  Carinthischer Sommer Festival) and church music. His friendship 
with J. M.  Hauer has substantially influenced his compositions.

!Works
Compositions for orchestra and chamber music: 3 twelve-tone 
compositions, 1968; string quartet, 1971; rhapsody, 1987; concerto for 
violin, string orchestra and timpani, 1994. - Vocal music: German 
Mass, 1972; Christmas Mass of Maria Saal, 1984. - Writings.

!Literature
G. Brosche (ed.), Musikalische Dokumentation N. F., 
exhibition catalogue, Austrian National Library, Vienna 1997.


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