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Heinz Sandauer (* January 9, 1911 in Vienna; † August 5, 1979 in Vienna) was an Austrian conductor, composer and writer.
Heinz Sandauer studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts. His composition teacher was the Austrian composer and music teacher Professor Joseph Marx, from whom he later arranged several pieces of music, such as the New Year's Hymn for mixed choir, organ and orchestra of 1914. Already in the 1920s, Sandauer was active as an arranger for such famous composers as Franz Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán and Robert Stolz. With his own ensemble, he soon recorded numerous musical pieces on shellac records (sometimes under a fancy name, such as ''Harry's Tanzorchester''). The Schlager (hits) singers of the time, such as Austin Egen, Max Hansen, Gloria Astor and child star Evi Bodo, were his accompanists.
As a composer, Heinz Sandauer was mainly active in the film business. Between 1936 and 1958, he created the film music for about 30 German films. But concertante music such as a concerto in C-major for drum and orchestra, piano solos and ballet music also belong to his œuvre - as do numerous Viennese songs and Schlager.
Heinz Sandauer's relationship with Austrian radio also began in the 1920s. Initially, he worked for ''Radio Verkehrs AG (RAVAG)'', the first Austrian radio station. Then, in 1937, he advanced to become the leader of the Vienna Radio Orchestra. His broadcasting career continued after the Second World War. He first worked for the ''Red-White-Red'' station of the American occupation forces, and later for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). He reaped great success in the 1970s with the ''Kleine Wiener Rundfunkorchester'' and the weekly live broadcast "Im Konzertkaffee" from the AEZ in Vienna. Sandauer had also discovered the famous Viennese conferencier Heinz Conrads.
In 1963, Heinz Sandauer was appointed professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts (as the former Vienna Academy was now called). He taught light music and jazz. As a music educator, he also approached the public in book form: he wrote the work ''Der Jazz-Pianist''. ''Der Weg zum modernen Klavierspiel'' (1950) and the ''Handbuch des praktischen Instrumentierens für großes Orchester, Blasmusik und Jazzorchester'' (1965).
Heinz Sandauer had another field of interest, namely astrology. In addition to a guidebook ''Astrology for Everyone'', he wrote (together with Nathalie Sandauer) twelve astrological zodiac guides (one for each zodiac sign) in the 1970s. This was followed in 1978 by the book ''History, Guided by the Stars''. In this Astrological Analysis of the Occident (subtitle), he dealt among other things on several pages with Adolf Hitler's rise and fall. With Hitler's star constellation Sandauer justifies not only his character, but also his effect and his actions. Example: "Pluto and Neptune indicate this man as a seducer with magical powers, a violent mixture of infatuation and deception to which not only the environment but he himself succumbed in the end."
In Schubertpark (18th district) in Vienna there is a bust in memory of Prof. Heinz Sandauer.
Note: Translated from a German version of Wikipedia into English.
