80th Birthday Of Prof. Werner EGK: On My 17th. 1981 Prof. Werner EGK (our picture), son of a country teacher from Donauworth/West Germany, will celebrate hi 80th. birthday. After leaving the classical grammar school in Augsburg, he started a musical study in the city-academy of music which he continued at the university of Munich. At the same time, among others he got private lessons by Carl Orff. - Most of all Egk concentrated himself upon the creativeness of onaras and ballet. He's one of the few, still living West German composers whose works are internationally known. His first opera was "The Magic Violin" (1935); this composition after a fairy-tale was put on stage about hundred times, 1936, together with Orff, he got the order to write the music for an Olympic festival by the NOC - because of that he was awarded with the gold medal for orchestral music. 1938 his opera "Peer Gynt", and 1940 his ballet "Joan von Zarissa" were played for the first time. Then compositions like "Columbus". "The Chinese Nightingale", "Irish Legend", "The Reviser", "Engagement in San Domingo", the ballet "Abraxas" a.s.o. followed. From 1952-70 Werner Egk has been a member of the Bavarian Opera of State and there he managed each performance of his operas and ballets being in the repertoire. The name Werner Egk is mainly bounded up with questions of copyright in music. For many years he has been the chairman of the Gema's supervisor board and from 1976-78, as the first German man, he has also been confident of the CISAG, the world organisation of the association of copyright. Awards: Art-prizes of French and Berlin. Bavarian Distinguished Service Order ~~~~~~ ~~~~~ German Distinguished Service Cross with a star, ~~~~ citizen of Donauwort.
Photo measures 8 x 6 inches.
Photo is dated 5-17-1981.
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