!!!Paumgartner, Bernhard

b. Vienna, Nov. 14, 1887, 
d. Salzburg, July 27, 1971, musicologist (specialized in W. A.  
Mozart), conductor, composer and librettist; son of the singer Rosa  
Papier-Paumgartner, in his first marriage son in law of P.  Rosegger. 
1917-1938 and 1945-1959 director of the Mozarteum in Salzburg; 
co-founder of the Salzburg Festival, from 1922 in charge of the 
Mozarteum Orchestra, founded in 1952 the Camerata Academica; 1949 
professor at the Vienna Academy of Music. Founder and director of the 
international summer courses at the Mozarteum; 1960-1971 president of 
the management committee of the  Salzburg Festival. Awarded the 
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 1962.

!Works
Operas, singspiele, ballets, music for stage, lieder, 
orchestral works, Mozart arrangements, translations of libretti. - 
Writings: Mozart, 1927 (expanded 1967); Salzburg, 1935; Leopold 
Mozarts Briefe an seine Tochter, 1936 (ed. with O. E. Deutsch); F. 
Schubert, 1943; J. S. Bach, 1950; Das instrumentale Ensemble, 1966; 
Erinnerungen, 1969.



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