Irene Abendroth News
Austrian opera singer (1872-1932)
- coloratura soprano
- opera
- Austria, Cisleithania
- opera singer, music teacher
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2022-06-09 17:51:00
Li-Tai-Pe, Theater Bonn, 4 June 2022
[…] his œuvre, from novels and plays to a libretto (for Paul Graener) on the subject of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. What of Franckenstein? It seems—and here I must note Juliane Brandes’s helpful programme essay—that a crucial figure in placing his musical language is his teacher, Ludwig Thuille, now likewise little known as a composer though he retained currency in German postwar conservatories through his decidedly non-Schoenbergian Harmonielehre. Historically, though, Thuille, whose other pupils included Hermann Abendroth, Walter Braunfels, Rudi Stephan, Ernest Bloch, and Paul von Klenau, was accounted a key figure in the so-called Munich School of composers, from whom Richard Strauss now dwarfs all others, but which also includes Hans Pfitzner, Max Schillings, and Alexander Ritter. Lest this become a game of ‘degrees of separation’, perhaps it is best to say that Wagnerisms in harmonic language were not necessarily matched by Wagnerian technique, let alone by the techniques of […]
2020-04-26 21:13:02
Hermann Abendroth was supposed to be the avatar of a now-lost style of conducting–the sort of Romantic push and pull approach to tempo and phrasing. Of course, we can’t say just how common this really was. There were always musicians who favored strict tempos, and those who phrased more freely, dating back at least to […]
2015-12-31 16:00:36
[…] charge of the Philharmonic Orchestra; and since co-residence was likely to be difficult, given his own status as a former conductor of this orchestra, Fiedler withdrew to Berlin, where he became an active guest conductor of the city’s various orchestras. In 1916 a Berlin critic hailed him as ‘the greatest Brahms conductor of the present day’, and during the same year he accepted the position of conductor of the Essen Orchestra, in succession to Hermann Abendroth, who was moving to Cologne to replace Steinbach. At Essen, Fiedler consolidated his reputation as a major figure in German musical life, conducting a wide repertoire that included contemporary composers such as Walter Braunfels, Karol Szymanowski and Arthur Honegger, as well as each year organising a festival devoted to a major single composer. In addition he guest-conducted the Berlin Philharmonic occasionally, and from 1927 was co-conductor of the Essen Folkwangschule. In 1929 he married […]
2015-08-21 14:46:24
Organ failure: the Nazis condemned it; at last we can make our own minds up about Jón Leifs' Organ Concerto
Many of the Icelandic composer’s works have established a place in the repertoire, but why is his notorious organ concerto still so rarely performed? Jón Leifs spent more 13 years working on his Organ Concerto. The composer/conductor was born in Iceland but moved to Leipzig to study piano at the conservatory at the age of 17. It was one of the first works he began after his arrival in Germany. He eventually completed it in 1930, but its first performance was not until 1941, with the Berlin Philharmonic under Georg Schumann with Leifs himself as soloist. It was an event which surely numbers among the most ignominious premieres of the 20th century. Programmed with long-forgotten works by minor contemporary figures such as Abendroth and Besch, the concerto was dismissed by the audience, most of whom left the hall: only 20 listeners remained at the end. The debacle accelerated an already rapid […]
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