Discipline: Music Composition

Robert Helmschrott

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Ottobrunn, GERMANY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1994
Robert Helmschrott is a German composer. He was professor of music theory and church music composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich. Helmschrott was a member of the Studio for New Music, Munich (together with Fritz Büchtger , Edith Urbanczyk , Wilhelm Killmayer and Günter Bialas ) from 1969 to 1979. In 1979 he founded the Forum MUSICA SACRA VIVA, new sacred music in Munich churches, which he ran until 1994. At times he was 1st Deputy Chairman of the Association of Munich Tonkünstler (until 1979) and since 1991 he is a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Bavarian Radio. As an organist he traveled to Italy, Spain, France, England, the Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine, India, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, USA, South Africa, and the GDR. Helmschrott writes liturgical music, secular and sacred choral music, chamber music, and orchestral works. Much of his work is dedicated to organ music.

Studios

Veltin

Robert Helmschrott worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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