René Clemencic (27 February 1928 – 8 March 2022) was an Austrian composer, recorder player, harpsichordist, conductor and clavichord player.[1][2]
Biography
Born in
Vienna,
Austria, Clemencic was educated at the
Vienna University and studied further in France, Netherlands and
West Germany. He was director of the Capella Musica Antiqua and of the Drama Musicum in Vienna.
In 1958 he founded Musica Antiqua (known after 1959 as Ensemble Musica Antiqua) to perform
early music on
period instruments. Later, in 1968, he founded the Clemencic Consort.[3]
Clemencic died on 8 March 2022, at the age of 94.[4]
^John Mansfield Thomson Recorder profiles 1972 p77 "Rene Clemencic also specialises in contemporary music and at Warsaw in 1969 performed his own work Meraviglia ('Wonder'). ... 'In my own compositions I want to rediscover music as something actual, something born at this moment,"