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'''Olga Neuwirth''' ({{IPA|de-AT|ˈɔlɡə ˈnɔʏvɪrt|lang}}; born 4 August 1968 in [[Graz]]) is an Austrian contemporary classical [[composer]], visual artist and author. She is famed especially for her operas and music theater works, many of which have treated sociopolitical themes. She has emphasized an open-ended, interdisciplinary approach in her work, collaborating frequently with [[Elfriede Jelinek]], exploiting [[live electronics]], and incorporating video. In her opera ''[[Lost Highway (opera)|Lost Highway]]'', she adapted David Lynch's [[surrealist]] film ~~under~~with the same name. She has also written music for historic and contemporary films. [[Luigi Nono]]~~, she said,~~ has inspired her both musically and politically.

==Biography==

===Youth===

Neuwirth was born in Graz, the daughter of Griseldis Neuwirth and pianist [[Harald Neuwirth]]. She is the niece of [[Gösta Neuwirth]] and the sister of sculptor Flora Neuwirth.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Olga Neuwirth – Munzinger Biographie|url=https://www.munzinger.de/search/document?index=mol-00&id=00000023479&type=text/html&query.key=AnLsRxEX&template=/publikationen/personen/document.jsp&preview=|access-date=18 November 2021|website=www.munzinger.de}}</ref><ref name="mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de">{{Cite web|title=MUGI – Musik und Gender im internet|url=https://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/artikel/Olga_Neuwirth.html|access-date=18 November 2021|website=mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de|archive-date=13 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513183629/https://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/artikel/Olga_Neuwirth.html|url-status=live}}</ref> As a child at the age of seven, Neuwirth began lessons on the trumpet but was forced to abandon her original plans to study trumpet after an accident that left her with a jaw injury.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Staatspreis an Olga Neuwirth|url=https://oe1.orf.at/artikel/216228/Staatspreis-an-Olga-Neuwirth|access-date=18 November 2021|website=oe1.orf.at|language=de|archive-date=3 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903004023/https://oe1.orf.at/artikel/216228/Staatspreis-an-Olga-Neuwirth|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Studies and formative experiences===

As a high school student, Neuwirth took part in composition workshops with [[Hans Werner Henze]] and [[Gerd Kühr]].<ref name="mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de"/> At the age of 16, she met writer [[Elfriede Jelinek]], the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the two artists have since enjoyed an artistically "fruitful collaboration".<ref name="Wieschollek-2020">{{Cite journal|last=Wieschollek|first=Dirk|title=Multiple Identitäten|year=2020|journal=Neue Zeitschrift für Musik |volume=3 |location=Mainz |publisher=Schott|pages=13|language=de}}</ref><ref name="Flitner-2004">{{Cite book |last=Flitner |first=Bettina |title=Frauen mit Visionen – 48 Europäerinnen. Mit Texten von Alice Schwarzer. |publisher=Knesebeck |location=München |year=2004 |isbn=978-3-89660-211-4 |pages=156 |language=de}}</ref> The then-17-year-old composer named her first commissioned composition ''Die gelbe Kuh tanzt Ragtime''. The work was composed for the opening of the [[Steirischer Herbst|steirischer herbst]] festival in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|date=23 October 2004|title=Porträt: Gespenstersonate|url=https://www.profil.at/home/[node:path|access-date=18 November 2021|website=www.profil.at|language=de}}</ref>

In 1985/86, she studied music and art at the [[San Francisco Conservatory of Music]] with [[Elinor Armer]]. She also studied painting and film at the [[Academy of Art University|San Francisco Art College]].<ref name="Ricordi" /> She continued her studies at the [[University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna]]<ref name="Ricordi" /> under [[Erich Urbanner]] while studying at the Institute for Composition and Electroacoustics. Her master's [[thesis]] was written on the [[film score]] of Alain Resnais's ''[[L'Amour à mort]]''.

In 1993/94 she studied with [[Tristan Murail]] and worked at [[IRCAM]], producing such works as "''...?risonanze!...''" for [[viola d'amore]]. She received significant inspiration in this period from [[Adriana Hölszky]] (''Nicht beirren lassen! Weitermachen!'')<ref name="Flitner-2004"/> and [[Luigi Nono]], who had similarly radical politics, and who she said was a strong influence in her life.<ref name="a168">{{cncite web | title=Neuwirths liebste Nono-Kompositionen | website=oe1.orf.at | url=https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20200503/597713/Neuwirths-liebste-Nono-Kompositionen | language=de | access-date=7 September 2024}}</ref><ref name="l027">{{cite book | title=Olga Neuwirth | publisher=edition text + kritik im Richard Boorberg Verlag | date=2023 | isbn=978-3-96707-755-1 | doi=10.5771/9783967077551 | page= | editor-last1=Tadday | editor-first1=Ulrich }}</ref>

===Adulthood and advocacy===

Neuwirth has served as a professor at the [[Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien|University of Music and Performing Arts]] in Vienna since 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Neue Lehrende | work = [[University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna]] |url=https://www.mdw.ac.at/1095/ |access-date=18 November 2021 |language=de |archive-date=16 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616070846/https://www.mdw.ac.at/1095/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She is a member of the [[Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste|Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts]],<ref name="l540">{{cite web | title=Öffentliche Jahressitzung 2013 | website=Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste | url=https://www.badsk.de/presse/mitteilungen/öffentliche-jahressitzung-2013 | language=de | access-date=7 September 2024}}</ref> the [[Academy of Arts, Berlin|Academy of Arts (Berlin)]]<ref name="h677">{{cite web | title=Neuwirth | website=Akademie der Künste, Berlin | url=https://www.adk.de/de/akademie/mitglieder/index.htm?we_objectID=55031 | language=de | access-date=7 September 2024}}</ref> and the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Music]].<ref name="b241">{{cite web | title=Ledamöter | website=Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien | url=https://www.musikaliskaakademien.se/omakademien/organisation/ledamoter.39.html | language=sv | access-date=7 September 2024}}</ref>

Neuwirth has long reflected on the everyday life of professional composers, especially women composers, who are marginalized within contemporary art circles. She has conveyed her thoughts on this issue in a number of texts. She frequently expresses herself on political issues more broadly, calling for vigilance in the face of social and political changes (for example, with a speech in front of the Vienna State Opera at a mass protest held on 19 September 2000, entitled "I will not be yodeled out of existence").<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ich lasse mich nicht wegjodeln|url=http://www.beckmesser.de/komponisten/neuwirth/jodel-d.html|access-date=18 November 2021|website=www.beckmesser.de|archive-date=27 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127152152/http://www.beckmesser.de/komponisten/neuwirth/jodel-d.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Music==

Neuwirth has created several full-length music theatre works, including the video opera ''Lost Highway'' (2003), based on David Lynch's film; ''Bählamms Fest'' (1993/1997), drawing on the work of Leonora Carrington; ''The Outcast,'' referencing Herman Melville; and ''American Lulu,'' ~~inspired~~her byfree adaptation of Alban Berg's ''[[Lulu (opera)|Lulu]]''. She collaborated with [[Elfriede Jelinek]] on the opera "Bählamms Fest."

Neuwirth's [[opera]] of [[David Lynch]]'s film ''[[Lost Highway (film)|Lost Highway]]'' incorporates both live and pre-recorded audio and visual feeds, alongside other electronics. Its premiere took place in Graz in 2003, performed by the [[Klangforum Wien]] with the electronics realized at the [[Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics|Institut für Elektronische Musik]] (IEM). The American premiere of the opera took place at [[Oberlin College]] in Oberlin, Ohio, and featured further performances at [[Columbia University]]'s [[Miller Theatre]] in New York City, produced by Oberlin Conservatory and the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble. The surround-sound recording released by Kairos was awarded the [[Diapason d'Or]]. The UK premiere took place at the [[Young Vic]] in London in April 2008, in a co-production with the [[English National Opera]], directed by [[Diane Paulus]] and conducted by [[Baldur Brönnimann]].

Neuwirth's opera ''[[:de:Orlando (Neuwirth)|Orlando]]'', based on the novel by [[Virginia Woolf]], is the first full-length opera composed by a woman and commissioned by the [[Wiener Staatsoper|Vienna State Opera]] to be performed in Vienna. The world premiere took place on 8 December 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Brembeck|first=Reinhard J.|title=Olga Neuwirth im Interview: Androgyne Klänge|url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/olga-neuwirth-interview-orlando-wiener-staatsoper-1.4712643|access-date=18 November 2021|website=Süddeutsche.de|date=11 December 2019 |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Rundfunk|first=Bayerischer|date=10 December 2019|title=Kritik – "Orlando" an der Wiener Staatsoper: Gnadenlos gut gemeint {{!}} BR-Klassik|url=https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news-kritik/olga-neuwirth-orlando-urauffuehrung-wiener-staatsoper-100.html|access-date=18 November 2021|website=www.br-klassik.de|language=de|archive-date=28 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928180349/https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news-kritik/olga-neuwirth-orlando-urauffuehrung-wiener-staatsoper-100.html|url-status=live}}</ref> It was later selected as the world premiere of the year in an international critics' poll conducted by the trade journal ''Opernwelt''.

She also has numerous [[chamber music]] works released on the [[Kairos (record label)|Kairos]] label.

===Style===

Neuwirth's original compositional style is characterized by the use of diverse compositional techniques and hybrid sound materials, with a constant questioning of artistic and sociopolitical norms. She refers to an "art in-between."<ref name="blog.berlinerfestspiele.de">{{Cite web|title=Abenteuerlust und Unangepasstheit – Berliner Festspiele Blog|url=https://blog.berlinerfestspiele.de/abenteuerlust-und-unangepasstheit/|access-date=18 November 2021|website=blog.berlinerfestspiele.de|language=de|archive-date=18 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118104014/https://blog.berlinerfestspiele.de/abenteuerlust-und-unangepasstheit/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Stefan Drees remarked:<ref>{{Cite web|title=Olga Neuwirth: In Focus|url=https://boosey.com/pages/cr/composer/composer_main?composerid=5292&ttype=INTRODUCTION|access-date=18 November 2021|website=boosey.com|archive-date=7 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207190326/https://boosey.com/pages/cr/composer/composer_main?composerid=5292&ttype=INTRODUCTION|url-status=live}}</ref>{{blockquote|The catastrophic, the plunge into unfamiliar regions with all the attendant consequences, is therefore a fundamental mood of her compositions, winding like a red thread through her works.}}

====Openness====

Usually assigned to the category of [[contemporary classical music]], her works since the late 1980s have sought to transcend the genre restrictions imposed by the music business. ~~From~~She has drawn from a ~~multitude~~range of "sources offor inspiration, ~~... from~~including "art, architecture, literature and music, intellectual history, psychology, natural science, and everyday reality ~~...~~".<ref name="Wieschollek-2020"/> ~~Neuwirth~~Her aim has ~~sought~~been to create ~~art~~works that isare asboth ~~multidimensional~~distinctive asand ~~it is distinct~~multidimensional. For example, in ''Le Encantadas o le avventure nel mare delle meraviglie'' (2014), Neuwirth has been described as creating a "fictional adventure novel through multiple spatial sound effects", drawing on [[Herman Melville|Herman Melville's]] novella ''[[The Encantadas]]'' (1894) and Luigi Nono's sound world, especially that of his 1984 ''[[Prometeo]]''.<ref name="www.ricordi.com">{{Cite web|title=Triumph für Neuwirths "Le encantadas"|url=https://www.ricordi.com/de-DE/News/2015/10/Neuwirth-Le-encantadas.aspx|access-date=18 November 2021|website=www.ricordi.com|language=en|archive-date=12 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312035800/https://www.ricordi.com/de-DE/News/2015/10/Neuwirth-Le-encantadas.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> The starting point of this composition is an acoustical survey (Neuwirth: "preservation of acoustic heritage"<ref name="www.ricordi.com"/>) of the Chiesa San Lorenzo in [[Venedig|Venice]].

In the 1990s, Neuwirth began crossing genre boundaries between theatrical drama, [[opera]], radio drama, [[performance art]] and video. She has expressed interest in a broad spectrum of stimuli and possibilities of expression. This has been reflected in the titles of her works, for example in ''The Outcast'', a musicstallation-theater with video.<ref name="www.olganeuwirth.com">{{Cite web|title=olga neuwirth – projects|url=http://www.olganeuwirth.com/projects.php|access-date=18 November 2021|website=www.olganeuwirth.com|archive-date=1 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701181112/http://www.olganeuwirth.com/projects.php|url-status=live}}</ref>

====Innovative means====

Neuwirth often set herself the goal of breaking up established forms of concert presentation in order to arrive at a "fluid form".<ref name="blog.berlinerfestspiele.de"/> For example, during the breaks in her two "portrait concerts" at the 1998 Salzburg Festival, the sound of wind-up toy instruments on a reinforced metal plate was transmitted into the concert hall's auditorium by means of several loudspeakers, with visuals projected live onto a screen, creating an immersive listening experience. In addition, "prompt texts" for the audience’s behavior, written by [[Elfriede Jelinek|Jelinek]], were inserted into the work.

Neuwirth's works have expanded from the concert hall into public spaces, for example in ''Talking Houses'' (1996), a sound installation for shops along the main square of Deutschlandsberg, Austria (created jointly with Hans Hoffer), and in the sound installation ''...le temps désechanté ... ou dialogue aux enfers'' (2005) at the Place [[Igor Stravinsky]] in Paris (near the ''[[Stravinsky Fountain]]''). For this latter work, commissioned in 2005 by [[IRCAM|IRCAM Paris]], a motion-capture camera was used to allow electroacoustic sounds to interact with the streams of people moving through the square. As the number of passers-by rose, a musical transformation was set in motion. However, the Paris police ultimately ordered the sound installation to be shut down.

====Interdisciplinary collaboration====

Neuwirth frequently collaborates with artists working in other disciplines or mediums, such as architect [[Peter Zumthor]] (Bregenz 2017),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Peter Zumthor|url=https://www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at/ausstellungen/archiv/peter-zumthor/|access-date=18 November 2021|website=www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> the New York architects of [[Asymptote Architecture]] (ZKM 2017), and the computer music and audio/acoustics research artist Markus Noisternig. She worked with video artist Tal Rosner to create the interactive installation ''Disenchanted Island''<ref name="www.olganeuwirth.com"/> at [[Centre Georges-Pompidou|Centre Pompidou]] in Paris (2016).

She is interested in the relationship between music and visual art and has continually expanded the scope of her activities by writing texts and film scripts, producing short films, and organizing performances and photo series. In 2007, she participated in the [[documenta 12]] contemporary art exhibition, for which she produced a sound/film installation.<ref>{{Cite web|title=MUGI – Musik und Gender im internet|url=https://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/artikel/Olga_Neuwirth.html#Forschungsbedarf|access-date=18 November 2021|website=mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de|archive-date=13 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513183629/https://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/artikel/Olga_Neuwirth.html#Forschungsbedarf|url-status=live}}</ref> She recently collaborated with French installation, video, and conceptual artist [[Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster|Dominique Gonzales-Foerster]] on the multimedia installation ''...ce qui arrive.…''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ensemble Modern – Mediathek – Texte – ...ce qui arrive...|url=https://www.ensemble-modern.com/de/mediathek/texte/2004-10-01/ce-qui-arrive-interview-mit-olga-neuwirth-und-dominique-gonzalez-foerster|access-date=18 November 2021|website=www.ensemble-modern.com|archive-date=18 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118104007/https://www.ensemble-modern.com/de/mediathek/texte/2004-10-01/ce-qui-arrive-interview-mit-olga-neuwirth-und-dominique-gonzalez-foerster|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Film scores===

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===Commissions and music residencies===

~~Olga~~ Neuwirth has received commissions from international institutions including [[Carnegie Hall]], the [[Lucerne Festival]], the Salzburg Festival, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the [[Wiener Staatsoper|Vienna State Opera]] and many others. She was composer in residence at the Salzburg Festival in 1999, the Koninklijk Filharmonisch Orkest van Vlaanderen in Antwerp in 2000, the Lucerne Festival in both 2002 and 2016, the Festival d'Automne in 2011, and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Wiener Konzerthaus in 2019.

===Performing relationships===

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===Awards===

* 1997: Erste-Bank-Kompositionspreis

* 1999: [[Hindemith Prize]],<ref name="t809">{{cite web | title=SHMF Liste der Preisträger: Paul Hindemith | website=hindemith.info | url=https://www.hindemith.info/de/stiftung/auszeichnungen/lightbox/shmf-liste-der-preistraeger/ | language=de | access-date=7 September 2024 | archive-date=18 June 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240618004237/https://www.hindemith.info/de/stiftung/auszeichnungen/lightbox/shmf-liste-der-preistraeger/ | url-status=live }}</ref> [[Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis|Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize]]

* 1999: [[Hindemith Prize]], [[Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis|Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize]]

* 2000: Ernst-Krenek-Preis for the opera ''Bählamms Fest''<ref name="r641">{{cite web | title=Olga Neuwirth | website=Stadtportal der Landeshauptstadt Graz | url=https://www.graz.at/cms/beitrag/10410298/7772746/Olga_Neuwirth.html | language=de | access-date=7 September 2024 | archive-date=24 March 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240324094253/https://www.graz.at/cms/beitrag/10410298/7772746/Olga_Neuwirth.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

* 2000: Ernst-Krenek-Preis for the opera ''Bählamms Fest''.

* 2008: Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis (Heidelberg Prize for Female Artists)<ref name="x385">{{cite web | title=Komponistin Olga Neuwirth erhält Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis | website=Merkur.de | date=30 May 2009 | url=https://www.merkur.de/kultur/komponistin-olga-neuwirth-erhaelt-heidelberger-kuenstlerinnenpreis-326895.html | language=de | access-date=7 September 2024 | archive-date=7 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240907183633/https://www.merkur.de/kultur/komponistin-olga-neuwirth-erhaelt-heidelberger-kuenstlerinnenpreis-326895.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

* 2008: Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis (Heidelberg Prize for Female Artists).

* 2009: South Bank Show Award for ''Lost Highway''

* 2010: [[Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Olga Neuwirth | website=Wiener Staatsoper | url=https://upstream.wiener-staatsoper.at/ensemble-gaeste/detail/artist/1388-neuwirth-olga/ | language=de | access-date=12 November 2020 | archive-date=7 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240907183656/https://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/ensemble-gaeste/detail/artist/1388-neuwirth-olga/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

* 2010: Louis Spohr Musikpreis Braunschweig<ref name="i923">{{cite web | title=Komponistin Olga Neuwirth erhält Louis Spohr Musikpreis | website=nmz – neue musikzeitung | date=14 May 2010 | url=https://www.nmz.de/menschen/personalia/komponistin-olga-neuwirth-erhaelt-louis-spohr-musikpreis | language=de | access-date=7 September 2024 | archive-date=7 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240907183702/https://www.nmz.de/menschen/personalia/komponistin-olga-neuwirth-erhaelt-louis-spohr-musikpreis | url-status=live }}</ref>

* 2010: Louis Spohr Musikpreis Braunschweig

* 2011: Nominated for the Österreichischer Filmpreis (film score to ''Das Vaterspiel)''

* 2014: Nominated for the Österreichischer Filmpreis (film score to ''Ich seh Ich seh)''

* 2017: [[Deutscher Musikautorenpreis]] (category "Komposition Orchester")<ref name="n710">{{cite web | title=Olga Neuwirth received the German Music Authors' Prize 2017 | website=Ricordi | date=4 April 2017 | url=https://www.ricordi.com/en-US/News/2017/04/Neuwirth-Musikautorenpreis.aspx | access-date=7 September 2024 | archive-date=7 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240907183639/https://www.ricordi.com/en-US/News/2017/04/Neuwirth-Musikautorenpreis.aspx | url-status=live }}</ref>

* 2017: [[Deutscher Musikautorenpreis]] (category "Komposition Orchester")

* 2019: [[Prize of the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation]]<ref name="x829">{{cite web | title=Preisverleihung | website=Kaske Stiftung | date= | url=https://www.kaske-stiftung.org/index.php/preisverleihung/ | language=de | access-date=7 September 2024 | archive-date=7 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240907183706/https://www.kaske-stiftung.org/index.php/preisverleihung/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

* 2019: [[Prize of the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation]]

* 2019: Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst<ref name="i632">{{cite web | title=Olga Neuwirth erhält Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst | website=[[Salzburger Nachrichten]] | date=5 December 2019 | url=https://www.sn.at/kultur/allgemein/olga-neuwirth-erhaelt-ehrenzeichen-fuer-wissenschaft-und-kunst-80243545 | language=de | access-date=7 September 2024 | archive-date=7 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240907183644/https://www.sn.at/kultur/allgemein/olga-neuwirth-erhaelt-ehrenzeichen-fuer-wissenschaft-und-kunst-80243545 | url-status=live }}</ref>

* 2019: Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst

* 2020: [[Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music]]<ref name="h587">{{cite web | title=Olga Neuwirth erhält Robert Schumann-Preis für Dichtung und Musik: Würdigung eines vielseitigen Schaffens | website=BR-KLASSIK | date=24 April 2020 | url=https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news-kritik/olga-neuwirth-komponistin-robert-schumann-preis-2020-100.html | language=de | access-date=7 September 2024 | archive-date=23 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240823020237/https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news-kritik/olga-neuwirth-komponistin-robert-schumann-preis-2020-100.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

* 2020: [[Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music]]

* 2021: [[Wolf Prize in Arts]] Laureate in Music 2021<ref>{{Cite web|title=Scientists fighting coronavirus among 2021 Wolf Prize Laureates|url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/scientists-fighting-coronavirus-among-2021-wolf-prize-laureates-658428|access-date=15 February 2021|website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com|date=10 February 2021 |language=en-US|archive-date=19 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220719181426/https://www.jpost.com///israel-news/scientists-fighting-coronavirus-among-2021-wolf-prize-laureates-658428|url-status=live}}</ref>

* 2021: [[Opus Klassik]]: composer of the year<ref>{{Cite web|title=OPUS KLASSIK|url=https://www.opusklassik.de/|access-date=18 November 2021|website=OPUS KLASSIK|language=en-US|archive-date=29 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029173345/https://www.opusklassik.de/|url-status=live}}</ref>

* 2022: [[Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition]] for her opera ''Orlando''<ref>{{cite web | last=Fitzpatrick | first=Denise | title=Music Composition – Grawemeyer Awards | website=Grawemeyer Awards | date=13 December 2023 | url=http://grawemeyer.org/music-composition/ | access-date=7 September 2024 | archive-date=28 March 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328192130/http://grawemeyer.org/music-composition/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Barone | first=Joshua | title=Genre-Blurring, Politically Charged Opera Wins Top Music Prize | website=[[The New York Times]] | date=6 December 2021 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/arts/music/grawemeyer-prize-orlando-olga-neuwirth.html | access-date=7 September 2024}}</ref>

* 2022: [[Ernst von Siemens Music Prize]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis geht an Komponistin Olga Neuwirth – neue musikzeitung | website=[[nmz]] | date=8 March 2022 | url=https://www.nmz.de/kiz/nachrichten/ernst-von-siemens-musikpreis-geht-an-komponistin-olga-neuwirth | language=de | access-date=8 March 2022 | archive-date=9 March 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309041000/https://www.nmz.de/kiz/nachrichten/ernst-von-siemens-musikpreis-geht-an-komponistin-olga-neuwirth | url-status=live }}</ref>

==Selected works==

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=== Stage works ===

* ''Körperliche Veränderungen'' and ''Der Wald'' (1989/1990)., ~~Two~~two operas ~~after~~with Elfriede Jelinek

*''Bählamms Fest'' (1997/98), ~~Music~~music theatre in thirteen pictures. ~~Text:~~after the work of [[~~Elfriede~~Leonora ~~Jelinek~~Carrington]], ~~after~~with [[~~Leonora~~Elfriede ~~Carrington~~Jelinek]]

* ''[[Lost Highway (opera)|Lost Highway]]'' (2002–2003), ~~An [[~~opera]] ~~adaptation~~based ofon ~~the~~David Lynch's 1997 ~~[[David Lynch]]~~film ''[[Lost Highway (film)|~~film~~Lost ~~of the same name~~Highway]]''

* ''American Lulu'' (2006–2011), ~~New~~free ~~interpretation~~adaptation of ~~[[Alban~~ Berg~~]]’s opera~~ '~~'[[Lulu~~s ~~(opera)|~~Lulu~~]]'' by Olga Neuwirth~~

* ''The Outcast – Homage to [[Herman Melville]]'' (2009–2011), a "musicstallation theatre" with video, libretto by [[Barry Gifford]] and Olga Neuwirth, ~~with~~and monologues for Old Melville by [[Anna Mitgutsch]]

* ''Kloing! and A songplay in 9 fits'', ''Hommage à [[Klaus Nomi]]'' (2011), a music-theatre evening ~~produced and compiled by Olga Neuwirth~~

* ''Orlando'' (2019) ~~– an~~, opera based on ~~the~~Virginia Woolf's ''[[Orlando: A Biography~~|novel]] by [[Virginia Woolf~~]]'', commissioned by [[Vienna State Opera|Wiener Staatsoper]]

=== Concertos (or soloist and orchestra) ===

* ''Sans soleil'' (1994) for two [[~~Ondes~~ondes ~~Martenot~~martenot]], orchestra, and live-electronics

* ''Photophorus'' (1997) for two E-Guitars and orchestra

* ''locus...doublure...solus'' (2001) for piano and orchestra (version for orchestra)

* ''Zefiro aleggia...nell´infinito...'' (2004) for bassoon and orchestra

* ''… miramondo multiplo …'' (2006) for trumpet and orchestra

* ''Remnants of songs...an Amphigory'' (2009) for [[viola]] and orchestra

* ''Trurliade – Zone Zero'' (2016) for percussion and orchestra

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* ''Akroate Hadal'' (1995) for string quartet

* ''Ondate II'' (1998) for two bass clarinets

*''Hommage à [[Klaus Nomi]]'' (1998) ~~Songs~~ for [[countertenor]] and small ensemble

* ''voluta / sospeso'' (1999) for basset horn, clarinet, violin, violoncello, percussion and piano

* ''...ad auras...'' in memoriam H. (1999)

* ''settori'' (1999) for string quartet

*''Zwei Räthsel von W.A.M.'' (1999) Text: W. A. Mozart, Leopold Mozart; for ~~coloraturo~~coloratura soprano, alto, viola, cello, ~~6 Zimbel~~cymbals, tape, and live electronics<ref name="y703">{{cite web | title=Zwei Räthsel von W.A.M. | website=db.musicaustria.at | url=https://db.musicaustria.at/node/184728 | language=de | access-~~electronic~~date=7 September 2024 | archive-date=7 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240907183644/https://db.musicaustria.at/node/184728 | url-status=live }}</ref>

*''... ce qui arrive ...'' (with a interactive live video by [[Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster|Dominique Gonzales-Foerster]]) (2003/2004) for 2 groups, samples and live-electronic after [[Paul Auster]]

* ''In Nacht und Eis (2006)'' for bassoon, cello with ringmodulator

* ''Kloing!'' (2007) for ~~piano (~~computer-aided CEUS-piano) and a interactive live video

* ''Hommage à Klaus Nomi'' (~~version~~2009) for chamber orchestra~~) (2009)~~

* ''in the realms of the unreal'' (2009) for string quartet

* ''Quasare / Pulsare II'' (2017) for violin, cello and piano

* ''CoronAtion Cycle (2020)'' CoronAtion IV/Version I –, a 9-hours-long live sound installation for Robyn Schulkowsky and [[Joey Baron]]

=== Solo works ===

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