Born in Klagenfurt in 1958; Wolfgang Liebhart is a composer. From 1966 to 1979 he had piano and theory lessons, including at the Kärntner Landeskonservatorium; from 1980 to 1990 he studied composition with Francis Burt at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, followed in 1991/92 by postgraduate studies with Jonathan Harvey at the University of Sussex and in 1993/94 by private lessons with Luca Lombardi in Rome. Since 1992 he has worked as a freelance musician and composer, and since 2002 he has taught composition at the MUK, the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. The state of Carinthia honoured him with its promotion prize for music in 1990 and its prize of recognition in 2007; he also received a state scholarship (1991), working grants from the city of Vienna (1992, 1995), a scholarship for study abroad from the science ministry (1993) and a Carinthian state scholarship (1997). His works include String Quartet II, “Dilatation”, “Manhattan Graffiti”, “Szenario III” and “Sarastros Traum von der Zauberflöte”. In the Cybele catalogue he appears on DEGEM Vol. 9 – Orpheus 400 (2007) with “Oh O…” (2007) and on the audiobook Mirjam Wiesemann: Weht ein Stadtspaziergang durch den Traum (2014).
Wolfgang Liebhart
Composer
