!!!Wildgans, Friedrich

b. Vienna, June 5, 1913, 
d. Moedling (Lower Austria), Nov. 7, 1965, composer, clarinettist. Son 
of Anton  Wildgans; taught at the Salzburg Mozarteum College of Music; 
clarinettist at the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Burgtheater from 
1936-1939; politically persecuted and detained from 1940-1945; teacher 
at the Vienna Academy of Music from 1950-1965 (Professor from 1957); 
President of the International Society of Modern Music from 1948.

!Works
Der Diktator, 1933 (operetta); Der Baum der Erkenntnis, 1935 
(opera). - Symphonic works, concertos for clarinet, chamber, film and 
incidental music. - __Publication:__ Die Entwicklung der Musik in 
Oesterreich im 20. Jahrhundert, 1950.



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