Viktor Keldorfer

Viktor Keldorfer, like his brothers, sang as a boy in the choir of the Franciscan Church, Salzburg, of which his father is thought to have been a conductor.

The choir gave the first performance of Die Tageszeiten by Richard Strauss in 1928.

[1][2] During the Nazi era he was banned from performing, afterwards resuming as director of the Wiener Schubertbund until 1954.

[1] Keldorfer published editions of works by Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss and Anton Bruckner, and in 1928 published the first complete edition of the works for male voice choir by Franz Schubert.

From 1930 to 1939 he was director of the Bruckner Conservatory (now the Anton Bruckner Private University) in Linz; from 1941 to 1966 he was director of the Carinthian State Conservatory (now the Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität für Musik [de]) in Klagenfurt.