Robert Schollum

Born in Vienna, Schollum studied composition with Joseph Marx, music theory with Egon Lustgarten and organ and piano with Carl Lafite at the Neues Wiener Konservatorium and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

He founded the Linz section of the International Society for New Music, whose "Arnold Schönberg Medal" he received in 1953.

From 1955, Schollum conducted the Vienna City Serenade, in the same year he founded the Musical Youth of Austria [de].

In 1960, he was awarded the Honorary Prize of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture for outstanding achievements in the field of popular education; in 1961, he received the State Prize for Music and in 1971 the Preis der Stadt Wien für Musik [de].

In 1978, he was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art and the Ehrenmedaille der Bundeshauptstadt Wien [de] in gold.