!!!Ortner, Erwin

b. Vienna, Dec. 15, 1947, choral conductor. Member of the Vienna Boys' 
Choir, then studied music teaching, liturgical music, conducting (with 
H.  Swarowsky) and choral conducting (with H.  Gillesberger) at the 
Vienna Musikhochschule (now University of Music and Performing Arts), 
where he became Professor of Choral Conducting and Voice Training in 
1980; since 1996 also rector. Founded the Arnold Schoenberg Choir in 
1972 and is still its artistic director, from 1983 up to its 
dissolution in 1995 also in charge of the ORF Choir. Much sought-after 
conductor both in Austria and abroad.


%%language
[Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Ortner,_Erwin|class='wikipage austrian']
%%

[{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}]
[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]