Hans Knappertsbusch (March 12, 1888 – October 25, 1965) was a German conductor, best known for his performances of the music of Richard Wagner, Anton Bruckner and Richard Strauss. Events 538 - Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Conducting is the act of directing a Musical performance by way of visible gestures Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 &ndash 11 October 1896 was an Austrian composer known primarily for his symphonies, masses, and Motets Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 &ndash 8 September 1949 was a German Composer of the late Romantic era and early modern era particularly noted
Knappertsbusch was born in Elberfeld, today's Wuppertal. See also Elberfeld Indiana. For the baseball player with this name see Kid Elberfeld. ||-||} Wuppertal (ˈvʊpɐtaːl is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He studied philosophy at Bonn University and conducting at the Cologne Conservatory with Fritz Steinbach. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language The University of Bonn ( German: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany For a few summers, he assisted Siegfried Wagner and Hans Richter at Bayreuth. Siegfried Wagner (6 June 1869 - 4 August 1930 was a German composer and conductor the son of Richard Wagner. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Hans Richter ( 4 April 1843 in Raab He began his career with conducting jobs in Elberfeld (1913-1918), Leipzig (1918-1919) and Dessau (1919-1922). This sort of fix restores section edit linkpoints to where they belong Dessau is a town in Germany on the junction of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the Bundesland (Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt When Bruno Walter left Munich for New York, Knappertsbusch succeeded him as General Music Director of the Bavarian State Orchestra. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Bruno Walter ( September 15, 1876 &ndash February The Bayerisches Staatsorchester ( Bavarian State Orchestra) is the orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera.
Knappertsbusch incurred the wrath of Goebbels by asking a German diplomat in the Netherlands whether he was a "Muss-Nazi" (someone who was forced to join the Nazi Party for career reasons): as a result his Munich contract was revoked. The, officially National Socialist German Workers' Party, ( abbreviated NSDAP) was a Political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945 [1] In the late 1930s he went to Vienna to conduct at the Wiener Staatsoper, thus ignoring the Nazis' policy of not allowing German artists to work in Austria. Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria. The Vienna State Opera ( Wiener Staatsoper) located in Vienna, Austria, is one of the most important Opera houses - and opera companies - in Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich At the same time he became one of the emerging artists of the Salzburg Festival. The Salzburg Festival (Salzburger Festspiele is a prominent festival of Music and Drama. Knappertsbusch continued to appear in Vienna and Salzburg during the German occupation of Austria.
When World War II ended, Knappertsbusch returned to Munich, but continued to guest conduct in Vienna, as well as to make appearances at the Bayreuth Festival. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Bayreuth Festival is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of Operas by the 19th century German composer [2] He was one of the favorite conductors of the Wiener Philharmoniker, leading the orchestra in Vienna, Salzburg and on tour abroad, although generally he rarely toured outside the German-speaking world. The Vienna Philharmonic (in German: die Wiener Philharmoniker) is an Orchestra in Austria, regularly considered one of the finest in the He disliked long rehearsals, and was sometimes accused of laziness.
Knappertsbusch died in Munich in 1965. Many of his recordings, including his historic Decca recordings in stereo, have been re-released on CD. His 1951 and 1962 recordings of Parsifal are generally considered definitive of that work. Parsifal is an Opera, or Music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner. [3]
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References
- john hunt discographies: kna: concert register and discography of hans knappertsbusch. Short Run Press, Exeter, 2007, ISBN 978-1-90139-522-8
External links
- Hans Knappertsbusch at Allmusic
- Hans Knappertsbusch discography
- Hans Knappertsbusch concert database
- Hans Knappertsbusch discography
- Hans Knappertsbusch Life and Work (German)
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