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2018-07-02 12:55:39
Gluck and Mahler, 2018
[…] Vienna’s cultural scene. Hofoper, of which he was the music director, was the most prestigious music institution of the Empire, but Mahler was also working with younger, more adventuresome musicians: he was elected the honorary president of the Association of Creative Musicians in Vienna, founded by Arnold Schoenberg and Alexander von Zemlinsky (Berg and Webern were also members of the group). At the Opera, he passed some of the day-to-day activities to his staff conductors, Franz Schalk and Bruno Walter. Mahler invited Alfred Roller, a Secessionist painter, to Hofoper as the set designer. Their 1903 production of Tristan und Isolde was a big success. During that period Mahler started traveling more often. In Amsterdam, he established a close relationship with Willem Mengelberg, the conductor of Concertgebouw Orchestra. Mengelberg, together with Bruno Walter, would become major Mahlerian of the next generation. Like the Fifth, the Sixth symphony was composed at Maiernigg, […]
2017-06-02 06:01:28
Tourists in 2011 visited Mirabell Gardens in Salzburg, Austria, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the home of the famed Salzburg Festival of classical music. Credit Martin Schalk/Getty Images. SALZBURG, Austria — It has long been said that ...
2016-07-28 18:16:00
The Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major (WAB 105) of Anton Bruckner was written in 1875–1876, with a few minor changes over the next few years. It was first performed in public on two pianos by Joseph Schalk and Franz Zottmann on 20 April 1887 at the Bösendorfersaal in Vienna. The first orchestral performance - in a non-authenticated version ('Schalk-version'), a.o. with a changed orchestration in a Wagnerian fashion and with omitting 122 bars of the finale - was conducted by Franz Schalk in Graz on 8 April 1894 (Bruckner was sick and unable to attend: he never heard this symphony performed by an orchestra). It was dedicated to Karl von Stremayr, minister of education in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The symphony is sometimes referred to as the "Tragic", "Church of Faith", or "Pizzicato" symphony. WIKIPEDIA VIDEO: Bruckner […]
2016-07-28 16:16:00
The Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major (WAB 105) of Anton Bruckner was written in 1875–1876, with a few minor changes over the next few years. It was first performed in public on two pianos by Joseph Schalk and Franz Zottmann on 20 April 1887 at the Bösendorfersaal in Vienna. The first orchestral performance - in a non-authenticated version ('Schalk-version'), a.o. with a changed orchestration in a Wagnerian fashion and with omitting 122 bars of the finale - was conducted by Franz Schalk in Graz on 8 April 1894 (Bruckner was sick and unable to attend: he never heard this symphony performed by an orchestra). It was dedicated to Karl von Stremayr, minister of education in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The symphony is sometimes referred to as the "Tragic", "Church of Faith", or "Pizzicato" symphony. WIKIPEDIA VIDEO: Bruckner […]
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