Peter Planyavsky
Peter Planyavsky (born 9 May 1947) is an Austrian
organist and
composer. He attended the
Schottengymnasium. After graduating from the
Vienna Academy of Music in 1966 he spent a year in an organ workshop, and has been instrumental in organ-building projects, notably the construction of the
Rieger organ in the Great Hall of the
Wiener Musikverein. In 1968 he was appointed organist in the Upper Austrian Stift Schlägl, and the following year organist at Vienna's
St. Stephen's Cathedral. From 1983 until 1990 Planyavsky was their director of music, with overall responsibility for church music at the cathedral.
Planyavsky has recorded all the organ works of composers such as
Johannes Brahms and
Felix Mendelssohn, and has conducted not only the great works of sacred music but neglected organ concertos such as those by
Alfredo Casella and
Aaron Copland. He has also composed
sacred music for organ, choir, and orchestra, and is known for
parodies in the style of
Bach,
Haydn and
Mozart, as P.P. Bach, J.P. Haydn and W.A.P. Mozart.
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