Hans Richter
- Author: Fifield, Christopher
[W]ritten in a very engaging style with little tidbits about seemingly everyone. . . .This is, obviously, an important book if you are interested in conducting and 19th Century performance,...
Hans Richter
- Author: Fifield, Christopher
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[W]ritten in a very engaging style with little tidbits about seemingly everyone. . . .This is, obviously, an important book if you are interested in conducting and 19th Century performance,...
About
The Austro-Hungarian Hans Richter (1843-1916) was the first career-conductor to gain international fame. His first appointment was to Budapest, and he went on to dominate music-making in Vienna, Bayreuth, London, Manchester (withthe Hallé Orchestra) and other towns and cities in Britain and Europe between 1865 and 1912. Richter gave first performances of works by Wagner, Brahms, Elgar, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Stanford and Parry and helped to further the careers of Dvorák, Sibelius, Bartók and Glazunov. Christopher Fifield's remarkable study explores the personality, life and work of a conductor who influenced and inspired the leading composers, singers and instrumentalists of his day. Originally published in 1993, this revised and expanded edition contains extensive new material in the form of Richter's conducting books. Translated and reproduced in full, they detail every one of the 4,351 public performances Richter gave in a professional life spanning 47 years. Drawing on Richter's own diaries, the book also presents his correspondence with many contemporary composers (Wagner in particular) and performers. Fifield's biography of this seminal figure provides a revealing insight into British and European music and concert life during the long nineteenth century. CHRISTOPHER FIFIELD is a conductor, music historian, lecturer and broadcaster.He is the editor and author of the Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier and Max Bruch: His Life and Works, both published in new editions by The Boydell Press. He has also written Ibbs & Tillett - The rise andfall of a Musical Empire and The German Symphony between Beethoven and Brahms.
Contents
- 1843-1865 Childhood and Years of Study
- 1866-1867 Tribschen
- 1868-1869 Munich
- 1870-1871 Brussels : Tribschen
- 1871-1874 Budapest
- 1874-1875 Budapest and Bayreuth
- 1875 Vienna
- 1876 Bayreuth
- 1877 London
- 1878-1879 Vienna
- 1879-1880 Friends and Enemies
- 1880-1881 London and Vienna
- 1881-1882 Richter and d'Albert
- 1882 Richter and d'Albert
- 1882-1883 The Master's Death
- 1884 More Opera in London
- 1885-1886 Vienna, London and Birmingham
- 1887-1888 Return to Bayreuth
- 1889-1900 Vienna
- 1897-1900 Richter and Mahler
- 1889-1890 England
- 1891-1895 England
- 1895-1900 England
- 1890-1899 Bayreuth
- 1894-1899 Richter's diary
- 1899-1900 Halle Orchestra
- 1900-1902 England
- 1903-1904 England
- 1904-1906 England
- 1906-1908 England
- 1908-1909 England
- 1909-1911 England
- 1911-1914 Retirement
- 1914-1916 The Last Years
- Finale
- Hans Richter's Conducting Books
- Appendix 1: Works conducted by Hans Richter
- Appendix 2: Cities and towns where Richter conducted
- Select Bibliography
Awards and reviews
[W]ritten in a very engaging style with little tidbits about seemingly everyone. . . .This is, obviously, an important book if you are interested in conducting and 19th Century performance, but it also gives a wonderful look at the whole musical culture in Germany and England at the time
