| 1916 |
Feb. 2nd, born in Raab (= Györ, Hungary). |
| 1922 |
Parents move to Orth on the Danube (Lower Austria), where his grandfather had already been employed as a forest ranger. Schiskes father, a mechanical engineer, was
known as a pioneer in the designing of automobile and aircraft engines. He was director
of the Raab carriage works and owned a car as early as 1908. His early contact with physics
and technology contributed to his studying physics as well as music.
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| 1932 - 1938 |
Collaboration with the composer Dr. Ernst Kanitz (1894-1978) who, after his
emigration, became Prof. for composition and counterpoint at the University of Southern
California in Los Angeles (1945): From Orth it was possible for Schiske to study piano at the
new Vienna Konservatorium, his teachers were Roderich Bass and Julius Varga.
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| 1939 |
Diploma in composition. |
| 1940 |
Completion of his piano studies at the Music Academy of Vienna (with Hans Weber). |
| 1942 |
Graduation with the thesis "On the use of dissonances in A.Bruckners symphonies".
Schiske also studied music theory, history of art, philosophy and physics at the University of Vienna. |
| 1942 |
Drafted into the German Forces. During his military service he started to compose. |
| 1945 |
Free-lance composer. |
| 1950 |
Schiske is awarded the Music Prize of Vienna. |
| 1952 |
Professor for composition at the Music Academy of Vienna; besides, he wins the
Austrian State Prize for his oratorio "On Death". |
| 1954 |
Schiske is awarded the honorary title "Professor" by the Federal President.
He marries Berta Baumhackl, a grand-niece of the famous specialist in local history and geography,
Dr.Friedrich Baumhackl. They had four children.
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| 1959 |
Stay in Rome. |
| 1960 |
Schiske is awarded the Theodor Körner Prize and the Honorary Cross for Science and Research. |
| ab 1960 |
Onwards Juror in various congresses and competitions. |
| 1962 |
Appointment as Professor extraordinarius at the University. |
| 1966/67 |
"Visiting Professor"at the University of California Campus Riverside, Los Angeles. |
| 1967 |
Awarding of the Austrian State Prize for Music. |
| 1968 |
Awarding of the Golden Honorary Needle for Merits about the Republic of Austria. |
| 1969 |
Died in Vienna, June 16th. |
| 1970 |
Lower Austria posthumously awards him the "Landeskulturpreis" (Prize for promotion of culture in Lower Austria). |
