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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nEducation
<\/b>1943 St. Edward’s School Oxford: Higher School Certificate (physics, chemistry, mathematics)
1944-1948 army service, including short army course in engineering at the University of Cambridge (1944-1945)
1946\/1947 16 months as first lieutenant in Nigeria (Aba, Kaduna, Lagos)
1948-1951 Royal Academy of Music London: composition (Howard Ferguson)
1949-1951 annual Summer School of Music Bryanston resp. Dartington
1951-1954 Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Berlin: composition (Boris Blacher)
1953 International summer courses for new music Darmstadt<\/p>\n\n\n
Professional Activity
<\/b>1973 appointed professor of composition at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Vienna; 1992 emeritus
1987 as vice-president of the ISCM (Austrian section) organised the first “Lange Nacht der neuen Kl\u00e4nge” in the Konzerthaus, Vienna
1989-1991 Director of the Institute for Electroacoustic Music at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik, Vienna
Awards<\/b>
1954 Mendelssohn Scholarship (Royal Academy \/ Royal College of Music)
1956 Fellowship of the Fondation Europ\u00e9enne de la Culture
1957 Associate of the Royal Academy of Music
1973 Theodor K\u00f6rner Prize
1978 W\u00fcrdigungspreis f\u00fcr Musik Austrian Federal Ministry of Education and Art
1981 City of Vienna Prize for Music
1992 Gro\u00dfes Silbernes Ehrenzeichen f\u00fcr Verdienste um die Republik \u00d6sterreich
1994 Honorary membership of the Society for Electroacoustic Music (GEM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Born in London, 28 April 1926; resident in Vienna (Austria) since 1956, died on Oct. 3rd 2012 in Hartberg (Styria) Education1943 St. Edward’s School Oxford: Higher School Certificate (physics, chemistry, mathematics)1944-1948 army service, including short army course in engineering at the University of Cambridge (1944-1945)1946\/1947 16 months as first lieutenant in Nigeria (Aba, Kaduna, Lagos)1948-1951…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johanneskretz.bplaced.net\/WWW-BURT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johanneskretz.bplaced.net\/WWW-BURT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johanneskretz.bplaced.net\/WWW-BURT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johanneskretz.bplaced.net\/WWW-BURT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johanneskretz.bplaced.net\/WWW-BURT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johanneskretz.bplaced.net\/WWW-BURT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/johanneskretz.bplaced.net\/WWW-BURT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johanneskretz.bplaced.net\/WWW-BURT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Performances<\/b>
1953 Berlin, International summer courses for new music Darmstadt
1955 Baden-Baden, ISCM-festival
1956 and 1960 Cheltenham Festival
1960 W\u00fcrttembergische Staatsoper Stuttgart
1961,1964 and 1965 Festival Hall London
1964 Genf, Lausanne
1965 Landestheater Hannover
1966, 1969 and 1983 Vereinigte B\u00fchnen Graz
1968 Theater an der Wien
1969 St. Louis\/USA
1972 Santiago de Chile
1972-1978 National Opera Belgrad
1976 Wiener Festwochen
1979 Seoul
1982 Staatsoper Wien
1984 Salzburger Festspiele
1986 Madrid
1991 Festival de Paris, Contemporary Music Festival Huddersfield
1994 Barbican Centre London
1995 Wien modern
1997 Kattowice
1998 Linz: Francis Burt days (Brucknerhaus Linz<\/a>)
etc.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Comissions<\/b>
BBC, Staatstheater Kassel, Manfred von Mautner Markhof, Wiener Symphoniker, Ensemble 20. Jahrhundert, Maximilian Melcher,
Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"