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Austrian conductor, composer and pianist (1863-1942)
- piano
- opera, symphony
- Austrian Empire, Cisleithania, First Republic of Austria, Federal State of Austria, Nazi Germany
- conductor, classical composer, pianist, musicologist, writer
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All the conducting master class
2022-06-25 14:17:00
THE VIENNA MASTERCLASSAchim Holub teaches Austrian Conducting TechniqueVienna, 15 till 22 August 2022
This masterclass is for conductors who would like to be initiated into the secrets of the world famous Austrian conducting tradition in an intensive seven days course. Austria has always been known for its legendary conductors, be it Hans Richter, Felix Mottl, Gustav Mahler, Felix von Weingartner, Erich and Carlos Kleiber, Clemens Krauss, Karl Böhm, Hans Rosbaud, […]
2021-08-27 22:53:00
NYTimes.com: When Europe Offered Black Composers an Ear: Spurned by institutions in America, artists were sometimes given more opportunities across the Atlantic.
[…] concert programs in America at the time — and then disappeared. *** It was Dunbar, a clarinetist who had studied at the Institute of Musical Art (later the Juilliard School), who brought back Still’s music. In New York, the two had struck up a friendship before Dunbar set off in 1924 for Europe, where he studied and performed for over a decade. A student of renowned musicians like the conductor Felix Weingartner and the clarinetist Louis Cahuzac, he was steeped in the world of European art music. But he was also a committed Black activist. Running in the same circles as Black Marxists and Pan-Africanists like George Padmore, Dunbar had long made plain his loathing of white supremacy, whether in the form of Nazism or British imperialism. In fact, he’d already performed Still’s “Afro-American Symphony” for its […]
2018-10-18 14:00:10
BR Klassik, 17 CDs Though less well-known outside Germany than the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, founded in 1893, has a long pedigree. Its early years were particularly distinguished – Felix Weingartner was an early music director, and Wilhelm Furtwängler made his debut with the orchestra; guest conductors included Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Hans Pfitzner and Max Reger. It gave the premieres of Mahler’s Fourth and Eighth Symphonies, and, posthumously, of Das Lied von der Erde, and at the same time it developed a tradition of Bruckner performances, which persisted after the second world war. The last 60 years of the orchestra’s history, during which it has regained much of its former lustre, is documented in this 125th-anniversary collection. Nearly all of the conductors closely associated with it during that period are represented, from symphonies by Beethoven and Brahms conducted by
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2017-08-15 11:51:43
[…] is Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and conducts a programme that includes Saint-Saën’s 3rd Symphony, commissioned by the Philharmonic Society in 1886. Current RPS Gold Medallists include Martha Argerich, Janet Baker, Daniel Barenboim, Alfred Brendel, Placido Domingo, Bernard Haitink, György Kurtag, Antonio Pappano, Thomas Quasthoff, Simon Rattle, András Schiff, John Tomlinson and Mitsuko Uchida. Distinguished conductors previously awarded the RPS Gold Medal include: Thomas Beecham; Bruno Walter; Arturo Toscanini; Felix Weingartner; Adrian Boult; John Barbirolli; Herbert von Karajan; Leonard Bernstein; Georg Solti; Colin Davis; Pierre Boulez; Claudio Abbado; Charles Mackerras and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
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