Heinz Kratochwil

Heinz Kratochwil was born in Mödling a short distance to the south of Vienna.

[4] He graduated with a teaching qualification in 1955 from the Faculty of German Studies at the University of Vienna and was then, till 1961, a student of composition at the city's University of Music and Performing Arts ("Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien") where his teachers included Alfred Uhl and Othmar Steinbauer.

[5] His compositions blended elements of late romantic, impressionist, twelve-tone and jazz styles.

161), a setting lasting approximately 75 minutes, using a libretto by Herbert Vogg , and concerned with the life of St.

[7] The first performance took place at the appropriately futuristic Wotruba Church on the western fringe of Vienna only in 1999, however, several years after the composer's death.