Gustav Koslik

Austrian conductor, born 29 March 1902 in Vienna, Austria and died 1 September 1989 in Essen, Germany. Studied musicology at the Univeristy of Vienna, gaining his doctorate in 1925 with G. Adler). He also received piano, violin and theory lessons at the Musik Schule, Kaiserslautern. He began his career as a soloist and conductor in Essen (1925-30). After engagements in Saarbrücken (1930-35), Koblenz (1935-41) and Colmar (1941-44), he was appointed Director General of Music at the Süddeutschen Rundfunk in Stuttgart (1946-48), directing a conductor class at the local Hochschule. From 1952 to 1963, he was chief conductor of the Lower Austrian Tonkünstlerorchester. From 1958, he also taught at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna. He retired in 1974.