Carmen Ottner

Carmen Ottner (born in the 20th-century in Vienna^[1] ) is an Austrian musicologist, Theatre studies and General Secretary of the Franz Schmidt association.

Ottner was born as the daughter of trombonist Franz Bahner ([Vienna Philharmonic]). She studied musicology, theatre studies and philosophy at the University of Vienna. She wrote her dissertation on Das Wort-Toneproblem in den Klavierlieder Wilhelm Kienzl s and received her doctorate in 1974.

Since 1985 she has been Secretary General of the Franz Schmidt Society, has published a number of articles on Schmidt and his environment, and has organized conferences. Ottner is also managing director of the Austrian Society for Music and was a member of the editorial board of the Österreichische Musikzeitschrift . She has also written numerous encyclopedia articles and essays on musicological issues.

Ottner is also the editor of Studien zu Franz Schmidt, a multi-volume musicological series.

• Das Wort-Tonproblem in den Klavierliedern Wilhelm Kienzls. Dissertation, Vienna University, 1974.
• Was damals als unglaubliche Kühnheit erschien. Franz Schrekers Wiener Kompositionsklasse. Studien zu Wilhelm Grosz, Felix Petyrek and Karol Rathaus ,^[2] Frankfurt–Berlin–Bern–Brussels–New York–Vienna : Lang 2000
• Quellen zu Franz Schmidt – 1. Autographen, Drucke, Handschriften, Briefe in Wiener öffentlichen Sammlungen,^[3] 1985
• Quellen zu Franz Schmidt – 2. Briefe, Autographen, Aufzeichnungen im Privatbesitz, Erinnerungen, 1987

• Carmen Ottner (edit.): Franz Schmidt und die österreichische Orgelmusik seiner Zeit: Symposion 1991.^[4] Doblinger, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-900695-24-5
• Carmen Ottner (edit.): Musik in Wien 1938–1945. Symposion 2004. Studien zu Franz Schmidt XV,^[5] Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-900695-87-3

• Literature by and about Carmen Ottner in the German National Library catalogue
• Carmen Ottner on WorldCat

• Austrian musicologists
• Austrian women musicologists
• Theatrologists
• University of Vienna alumni
• Writers from Vienna
• Living people

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• Commons category link from Wikidata
• Date of birth missing (living people)
• Year of birth missing (living people)