!!!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.



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