{{short description|Austrian organist and composer (born 1947)}} {{use dmy dates|date=September 2022}} {{Infobox person | image = Peter Planyavsky (crop).jpg | alt = At a speaker's podium | caption = Planyavsky in 2011 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|05|09|df=y}} | birth_place = Vienna, Austria | occupation = {{plainlist| * {{nowrap|Organist at St. Stephen's Cathedral}} * Composer }} | education = Vienna Academy of Music | parents = Alfred Planyavsky | website = {{Official URL}} }} [[File:Peter planyavsky improvisation über gelobet sei der herr neanderkirche düsseldorf 1998 live.mp3|thumb|Planyavsky improvises on the hymn "Gelobet sei der Herr" (Rieger organ of Neanderkirche Düsseldorf 1998).]] thumb|Planyavsky plays his composition ''Fantasia in memoriam A. H.'' (Rieger organ of Neanderkirche Düsseldorf 1998; live). '''Peter Planyavsky''' (born 9 May 1947) is an Austrian organist and composer. He attended the Schottengymnasium. After graduating from the Vienna Academy of Music in 1966 he spent a year in an organ workshop, and has been instrumental in organ-building projects, notably the construction of the Rieger organ in the Great Hall of the Wiener Musikverein. In 1968 he was appointed organist in the Upper Austrian Stift Schlägl, and the following year organist at Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. From 1983 until 1990 Planyavsky was their director of music, with overall responsibility for church music at the cathedral.
Planyavsky has recorded all the organ works of composers such as Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn, and has conducted not only the great works of sacred music but neglected organ concertos such as those by Alfredo Casella and Aaron Copland. He has also composed sacred music for organ, choir, and orchestra, and is known for parodies in the style of Bach, Haydn and Mozart, as P.P. Bach, J.P. Haydn and W.A.P. Mozart.
== Career == Born in Vienna, the son of Alfred Planyavsky, he attended the Schotten gymnasium. At the Vienna Academy of Music, he studied organ, composition and improvisation with Anton Heiller, piano with Hilde Seidlhofer, and conducting with Hans Gillesberger. He graduated with diplomas in organ and church music in 1966.<ref name="composerdb" /><ref name="interview" /> Subsequently, he worked for a year in an organ workshop (intonation and assembly), and in 1968 he was organist in the Upper Austrian {{ill|Stift Schlägl|de}}.
[[File:Wien.Stephansdom57.jpg|thumb|upright|left|St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, where Planyavsky was director of music from 1983 until 1990]] From 1969 to 2004, Planyavsky was organist at Vienna's cathedral ''Stephansdom'' (St. Stephen's Cathedral), and in the years 1983 to 1990 was ''Dommusikdirektor'', director of music with overall responsibility for the church music at the cathedral.<ref name="composerdb" />
In 1980 he was appointed professor of organ, improvisation and liturgical organ playing at the Vienna Academy of Music. From 1996 to 2002 he headed the department of church music.<ref name="composerdb" />
Concert tours and master classes took Planyavsky to many European countries, Japan, Australia, South Africa, Hong Kong, Korea, Canada and the United States.<ref name="composerdb" /> In his master classes he has focused on Anton Heiller, Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn and Baroque music, with an emphasis on improvisation and liturgical organ playing. He has often served as a juror at competitions.<ref name="musikverein" />
Planyavsky recorded numerous LPs and CDs, such as recordings of all the organ works of Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn.<ref name="composerdb" />
As a conductor Planyavsky has emerged not only with the great works of sacred music, but also the neglected sector of organ concertos, conducting concertos by Alfredo Casella, Aaron Copland, Howard Hanson, Jean Langlais, Ottorino Respighi, and Leo Sowerby.<ref name="musikverein" />
Planyavsky composed for organ, choral and orchestral music. His motet for SSATB choir a cappella, ''Der 269. Psalm'' (Psalm 269), combines text from Psalms 148 and 121.<ref name="fiatars" /><ref name="musicanet" /> One of his specialties is parody.<ref name="interview" /> His cantata ''Der zufriedengestellte Autobus'' (The contented bus) by ''P.P. Bach'', a parody of a Bach cantata, was given more than 40 times. The cantata "Cactus tragicus", alluding to the title of Bach's Actus tragicus, premiered on 19 February 2004 in Klagenfurt.<ref name="cactus" /> As J.P. Haydn he composed the ''Ankunftssymphonie'' in 1987, as W. A. Plagiavsky Mozart ''Vier Stücke für die Trompetenuhr'' (Four pieces for the trumpet clock) in 1989.<ref name="interview" />
As an organ expert, Planyavsky was instrumental in organ-building projects, notably the construction of the new Rieger organ in the Great Hall of the Wiener Musikverein, which he planned in collaboration with Ludger Lohmann, Martin Haselböck, Gillian Weir, and Olivier Latry.<ref name="musikverein" />
== Awards == * Government Support Prize for Music in 1991 for his choral compositions * Orlando di Lasso-Medaille (2004) * Golden Medal of the Province of Vienna (2005) * Prize for Music of the Republic of Austria (2006)
== Publications == * ''Moritz Reger und andere Schrägheiten''. Dr. J. Butz, Sankt Augustin 2005, {{ISBN|3-928412-04-3}}. * ''Gerettet vom Stephansdom''. Edition VA bENE, Wien 2007, {{ISBN|3-851671-88-0}}. * ''Anton Heiller. Alle Register eines Lebens''. Edition VA bENE, Wien 2009. * ''Katholische Kirchenmusik. Praxis und liturgische Hintergründe''. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 2010, {{ISBN|978-3-7022-3094-4}}.
== Compositions == * ''Kohelet'', cantata for baritone, speaker, choir, organ and percussion, commission of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien (2011) * W. A. P. Mozart: ''Eine nicht gerade kleine Nachtmusik'' (2005) * P. P. Bach, ''Cactus tragicus'', cantata for soprano, tenor, bass, choir and orchestra (LWV 19204) (2004) * ''Hochzeit in Kana'', sacred opera (1998) * ''Der 269. Psalm'' for choir a cappella (1989) * W. A. Plagiavsky Mozart: ''Vier Stücke für die Trompetenuhr'' (1989) * W. A. P. Mozart: ''Die Schaffnerin aus Liebe, ein höchst bürgerliches Singspiel'' (1987) * J. P. Haydn: ''Ankunftssymphonie'' (1987) * ''Die vier Männer im Feuerofen - Eine biblische Ballade für Sopran und Orgel'' (1985) * P. P. Bach: ''Der zufriedengestellte Autobus'' (1985) * ''Missa Viennensis'' (1972) * ''Toccata alla Rumba'' for organ (1971)
== References == {{reflist|2| refs =
<ref name="composerdb">{{cite web | url = http://www.composerdb.com/node/61945 | title = Planyavsky Peter | publisher = music austria | accessdate = 5 February 2013 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
<ref name="interview"> {{cite web |last = Heindl |first = Christian |url = http://www.musicaustria.at/magazin/neue-musik/interviews-portraets/ein-leben-nach-dem-stephansdom-peter-planyavsky-feiert |title = Ein Leben nach dem Stephansdom: Peter Planyavsky feiert seinen 65er |publisher = music austria |date = 2 May 2012 |language = German |accessdate = 7 February 2013 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://archive.today/20130403174739/http://www.musicaustria.at/magazin/neue-musik/interviews-portraets/ein-leben-nach-dem-stephansdom-peter-planyavsky-feiert |archivedate = 3 April 2013 }} </ref>
<ref name="musikverein"> {{cite book | last = Heindl | first = Christian | title = Die neue Orgel der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien / Programmheft zum Einweihungskonzert | publisher = Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien | date = 26 March 2011 | language = German }} </ref>
<ref name="fiatars"> {{cite web | url = http://fiatars.de/material/2009-01-25_st_nikolaus_programmheft.pdf | title = Psalmenkonzert im Rahmen der Feierlichkeiten zum 100jährigen Bestehen von St. Nikolaus, Köln-Sülz | publisher = fiatars.de | pages = 3–4 | language = German | accessdate = 7 February 2013 }} </ref>
<ref name="musicanet">{{cite web | url = http://www.musicanet.org/cgi-bin/epeios.cgi?_target=gesbib&_skin=Musica&_session=&_language=en&ApplyQuery=&!Profile=CRV&Field=1891&Comparison.43=2&Pattern.43=149597&Table=19 | title = Der 269. Psalm / (Lobet den Herrn vom Himmel her) | publisher = musicanet.org | accessdate = 7 February 2013 | archive-date = 4 March 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055647/http://www.musicanet.org/cgi-bin/epeios.cgi?_target=gesbib&_skin=Musica&_session=&_language=en&ApplyQuery=&!Profile=CRV&Field=1891&Comparison.43=2&Pattern.43=149597&Table=19 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
<ref name="cactus">{{cite web | url = http://www.doblinger-musikverlag.at/dyn/werke/PLANYAVSKY_Cactus_tragicus.pdf | title = Cactus tragicus / Kantate für Sopran, Tenor, Bass, Chor und Orchester (LWV 19204) | publisher = Doblinger | language = German | accessdate = 7 February 2013 | archive-date = 3 March 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233546/http://www.doblinger-musikverlag.at/dyn/werke/PLANYAVSKY_Cactus_tragicus.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref> }}
== External links == * {{official|http://www.peterplanyavsky.at}} * [http://austria-forum.org/af/AEIOU/Planyavsky%2C_Peter/Planyavsky%2C_Peter_english Peter Planyavsky] Austria-Forum
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