Curtis McPeake - Dueling Banjos

Orel (Orel) Alfred (3 VII 1889, Vienna - 11 IV 1967, ibid.) - Aust. musescritic and musicologist. Got legal. education. As a musicologist, he has been engaged since 1917. G. Adler. In 1919 he defended his thesis ("The main voice in the Salve Regina of the Trent Code" - "Die Hauptstimme in den Salve Regina der Trienter Codices"). Since 1918, the head of the muses. Department of the Vienna Mountains. b-ki and in 1940-45 - music.-histor. Institute of Vienna University; in 1929-45 professor. Since 1920 Society "Monuments of Musical Art of Austria". Organized exhibitions in Vienna, dedicated. L. Beethoven (1927), F. Schubert (1928), J. Haydn (1932); joint with R. Hass organized in 1927 in Frankfurt am Austr. sector of the exhibition “Music in the Life of Peoples”, in 1928 in Vienna Intern. congress on the study of the works of F. Schubert, from the same year began the preparation of a complete comp. Op.A. Bruckner. Research O. ded. questions of form in motets of the 15th century, L. Beethoven, A. Bruckner. O.'s work, based on new materials and sometimes containing interesting observations, does not differ, however, in depth. Sovm. with R. Ficker published prod. from the Trent Codes in the Monuments of Musical Art of Austria (DTTs, 1920, Jahrg. 27, Bd 53). Honorary member Mozarteum (1959).