1896 Born on October 6 in Graz.
1978 Died on November 9 in Vienna.
Musical studies in Graz; music teacher; orchestra violin in Vienna; répétiteur at Graz Opera House; editor of the music magazine “Musikbote” in Vienna; activity as choir- and orchestra conductor and teacher of theory in Germany from 1926; at the State Academy of Music in Cologne from 1933. City of Solingen music director at the end of the war; professor from 1948 at the Vienna Academy of Music (department head of the composition- and choirmaster class from 1954; full professor from 1958): Province of Styria music director from 1949-51. Awards, including the Grand Austrian State Prize (1957); Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art 1st Class; Member of the Austrian Art Senate. Known in the twenties as revolutionary and “a-tonal,” Siegl soon left the experimental camp and settled firmly for “legal continuity,” which was the characteristic style for him then. New forms, independent harmony, severe logic and soulfulness of expression are characteristic of his comprehensive works. (Doblinger Catalogue)