Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Music Training

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Weingartner , ( Paul ) Felix , Edler von Münzberg , illus trious German conductor ; b . Zara , Dalmatia , June 2 , 1863 ; d . Winterthur , Switzerland , May 7 , 1942. After his father's death in 1867 , his mother took him to Graz , where he studied music with W. A. Remy . He published some piano pieces when he was 16 years old ; Brahms recommended him for a stipend which enabled him to go to take music courses with Rei necke , Jadassohn , and Paul at the Leipzig Con . ( 1881-83 ) . He received the Mozart Prize at his gradu ation ; he was introduced to Liszt , who recommended Weingartner's opera Sakuntala for production in Weimar ( March 23 , 1884 ) , a signal honor for a young man not yet 21 years old . While progressing rapidly as a composer , Weingartner launched a brilliant career as conductor , which was to become his prime voca tion . He conducted in Königsberg ( 1884 ) , Danzig ( 1885-87 ) , Hamburg ( 1887-89 ) , and Mannheim 1989-91 ) . In 1891 he was engaged as conductor at the erlin Opera ; from 1898 to 1903 he led the Kaim Orch . in Munich ; simultaneousiy he was conductor of the symph . concerts of the Royal Orch , in Berlin . His reputation as a fine musician was enhanced by his appearances as an ensemble player in the Weingart ner Trio , with himself as pianist , Rettich as violinist , and Warnke as cellist . In 1908 he succeeded Mahler as music director of the Vienna State Opera , and con ducted there until 1910. From 1912 to 1914 he con ducted the Municipal Opera in Hamburg ; from 1914 to 1919 was in charge of the Darmstadt Orch . He was subsequently music director at the Vienna Volksoper ( 1919-24 ) , and conducted the Vienna Philharmonic ( until 1927 ) , when he was appointed director of the Basel , Switzerland , Cons .: was conductor at the Vi enna State Opera during the season 1935-36 . In the interim he had great engagements with inajor Euro pean orchestras ; made his American debut with the N.Y. Philharmonic on Feb. 10 , 1905 , and later con ducted the N.Y. Symph . Society ( Jan. - March , 1900 ) He appeared as opera conductor with the Boston Op . era Co , on Feb. 12 , 1912 , conducting Tristan und Isolde ; he and his 3rd wife , the mezzo - soprano Lucille Marcel , were engaged for a season with the Boston Opera Co. in 1913. ( His first wife was Marie Juillerat , whom he married in 1891 ; his second wife was the Baroness Feodora von Dreifus , whom he inarried in 1903 ) . He eventually settled in Interlakon , Switzer land , where he established a summer conducting school . Weingartner was a competent music editor ; he was on the editorial board for the complete works of Berlioz ( 1899 ) and of Haydn ( 1907 ) . Despite the pressure of his activities as a conductor , he found time for composition . After his early pera Sakun tala , he produced several others : Gersius ( Berlin , Nov. 15 , 1892 ) ; Orestes , a trilogy ( Leinzig , Feb. 15 , 1902 ) ; Kain und Abel ( Darmstadt , May 17 , 1914 ) ; Dame Kobold ( Darmstadt , Feb. 23 , 1910 ) ; Die Dorf schule ( Vienna , May 13 , 1920 ) ; Mleister Andrea ( Vi enna , May 13 , 1920 ) ; wrote his own libreitos , and con ducted the first performances . He also composed 6 symphonies and a great deal of chamber music ; made arrangements of Beethoven's " Hammerklavier " So nata , op . 106 , and of Weber's Aufforderung zum Tanz . He was an excellent writer on musical subjects . Among his publications are : Die Lehre von der Wied ergeburt und das musikalische Drama ( 1895 ) ; Über das Dirigieren ( 1896 ; 5th ed . , 1913 ; a fun lamental es say on conducting ) ; Bayreuth 1876-189 ; ( 1897 ; 2nd ed . , 1904 ) ; Die Symphonie nach Beethoven ( 1897 ; 4th ed . , 1901 ; in English , 1904 ; new translation as The Symphony since Beethoven , 1926 ) ; Ratschläge für Auſfuhrung der Sinfonien Beethoven ( 1906 ; 3rd ed . , 1928 ; in English , London , 1907 ) ; a polemical pam phlet , Erlebnisse eines kgl . Kapellmeisters in Berlin ( 1912 ; an attack upon the Berlin intendancy : a rebut tal was publ . by A. Wolff , in Der Fall Wiingartner , 1912 ) ; Rutschläge für Auſführung der Sinfonien Schu berts und Schumanns ( 1918 ) : Ralschläge sur Auſfüh rung der Sinfonien Mozarts ( 1923 ) ; Prausikalische Walpurgisnacht ( 1907 , a satirical comedy ) Akkorde ( 1912 ; collected essays ) ; Bo Yin Ra ( 1927 ) ; Lebenser innerungen ( vol . I , 1923 ; vol . II , 1929 ; Engiisl , version as Buffets and Rewards : A Musician's Reminiscences , London , 1937 ) ; Unwirkliches und Wirkliches ( 1936 ) . BIBLIOGRAPHY : E. Krause , l'elix Weingartner als schaffen : ler Künstler ( Berlin , 1904 ) ; P. Riesenfeld , Fe . lix Weingartner . Ein kritischer Versuch ( Breslau , 1906 ) ; W , Hutschenruyter , Levensscheis en portret van Felix Weingartner ( laajem , 1906 ) ; Paul Stefan , Gustav Mahlers Erbe ( Munich , 1908 ) ; J. C. ! ustig , Fee lix Wemgartner . Personlichkeiten ( Berlin , 1908 ) ; P. Raabe , " Felix Weingartner , " Die Musik ( jan . 1908 ) ; E. Günther , Felix Weingartner ( 1917 ) ; W. Jacob , Felix Weinguriner ( Wiesbaden , 1933 ) ; Festschrift für Dr. Felix Weingartner ( for his 70th birthday ; Basel , 1933 ) . Weinlig . Christian Elregott , German organist and coniposer , b . Dresden , Sept. 30 , 1743 ; d . there , Marci : 14 , 1813. He studied with Homilius , at the Kreuz schule ; in 1767 he was oreanist at the Evangelical Church , Leipzig ; in 1773 , at Thorn ; in 1780 , compa nist at the Italian Opera , Dresden , and organist at the Fratienkirche ; in 1785 , suercoded his teacher Hami . lius as cartor of the Kreuzschule . He publ . somatis fer piano with flute and cello ; brought out several erato rios ; also light theater pieces . 1857 Herzog , Emilie , Swiss soprano ; b . Ermatingen , Swit zerland , Dec. 17 , 1859 ; d . Aarburg , Switzerland , Sept. 16 , 1923. She studied voice in Zürich and Munich ; made a debut in a minor role at the Munich Opera in 1880 , and afterwards sang in other German opera houses , including Bayreuth . In 1889 she was engaged at the Berlin Opera , where she became one of the best interpreters of soubrette roles ; she also gave recitals in Germany as a lieder singer . She made guest appear ances in the opera houses of London , Paris , Vienna , and Brussels , and in 1898 sang at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow she also sang for a season at the Metro politan Opera in New York ( 1899-1900 ) . Returning to Europe she continued to sing at the Berlin Opera ( lin til 1910 ) ; then taught at the Zürich Cons . ( 1910-22 ) . Praetorius , Erast , German musicologist ; 5. Berlin , Sept. 20 , 1880 ; d . Ankara , March 27 , 1946. He studied violin in Breslau and Halle , history and theory in Ber lin with Friedlaender , Fleischer , and Sturnof ; 1905 , Dr. phil . with his dissertation , Die Mensuraltheorie des Franchinus Gafurius ( Leipzig , 1905 ) ; in 1906 , ap pointed director of the farrous Heyer Museum in Co logne ; held this post until 1909 , when he joined the staff of the Cologne Opera . Subsequently , he heid similar positions in Bochum ( 1912 ) . Leipzig ( 1913 ) , Lübeck ( 1914 ) , Breslau ( 1915 ) , and Berlin ( 1922 ) . From 1924 until 1933 he was general musical director in Weimar ; in 1934 went to Turkey , where he was active in the educational field and on the radio ; re mained in Ankara until his death .