Karl Heinz Füssl

Born in Gablonz, (Czechoslovakia), Füssl went to study in Berlin and began his training with Konrad Friedrich Noetel (composition), Gerd Otto (piano) and Hugo Distler (choral conducting). After the Second World War, he settled in Vienna and began his studies with Alfred Uhl (composition), Erwin Ratz (musical analysis), and Hans Swarowsky (conducting).^[1] Füssl was also active as a music critic and worked as an editor for Universal Edition. On the one hand, he was entrusted with the Urtext editions, and on the other, he was involved in the publication of the works of Haydn, Mozart and Johann Strauss II. On the part of the Internationale Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft [de], Füssl was entrusted with the publication of the Gustav-Mahler-Gesamtausgabe [de]. At the World Music Days of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM World Music Days), Epitaph (Variations for Orchestra, world premiere) was performed in Zurich in 1957 and the Concerto Rapsodico in Copenhagen in 1964.^[2][3] Füssl died in Eisenstadt at the age of 68 and was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery^[4]

• 1953: Prize at the Composition Competition of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra
• 1962: Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna.^[5]
• 1970: Staatspreis für Musik
• 1976: Preis der Stadt Wien für Musik [de].^[6]
• 1984: Golden Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Land Wien [de]
• 1990: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art