Born in
Vorchdorf (Austria), Flotzinger graduated from the where he was a student from 1951 to 1958. He then pursued concurrent studies at the
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1958–1964) and the
University of Vienna (1959–1964). At the Academy of Fine Arts he studied music composition with
Karl Schiske, and at the University of Vienna he studied musicology with
Erich Schenk and
Walter Graf. In 1964 Flotzinger's doctoral dissertation on
lute tablatures in
Kremsmünster,
Die Lautentabulaturen des Stiftes Kremsmünster, was published by the University of Vienna, and he received his doctorate from that institution in 1965. Flotzinger granted the first Dombrowski award for a composer in 1988 to Hannes Kuegerl (1906–1990) who had garnered attention,
i.a., with his 1942
Heroic Suite (
Heldische Suite) for symphony orchestra, a musical glorification of
Germany’s war of aggression at the time, first performed in Graz in 1943. == References ==