Schollum, Robert#
b. Vienna, Aug. 22, 1913, d. Vienna, Sept. 30, 1987. Composer, conductor, music critic and musicographer. 1945 Municipal Music Director in Linz, 1946 director of the Linz Municipal Music Administration (Staedtische Musikdirektion); founder (1955) and director of the Upper Austrian chapter of Jeunesse Musicales; from 1959 professor at the Vienna Academy of Music. As a composer he followed D. Milhaud and B. Bartók, embraced neoclassicism and the twelve-tone system, but avoided strict imitation and applied new techniques from 1965, concentrating mainly on tonal and melodic aspects. 1965-1969 and 1983-1984 president of the Austrian Komponistenbund (Austrian Society of Composers).
Works#
Operas, orchestral works, chamber music, songs, chorals, piano and organ works, incidental music. - Publications: Musik in der Volksbildung, 1962; Egon Wellesz, 1964; Die Wiener Schule, 1969; Singen als menschliche Kundgebung, 1970; Das oesterreichische Lied des 20. Jahrhunderts, 1977; Vokale Auffuehrungspraxis, 1983 (with H. Krones).Literature#
G. Brosche (ed.), Musikalische Dokumentation R. S., exhibition catalogue, Austrian National Library, Vienna 1993; U. Otter, R. S., 3 vols., master´s thesis, Vienna 1994.