Georg Reimers (1860-1936)
Georg Reimers (1860-1936). Profession: Actor (stage and movie). Residences: Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 04-04-1860 Altona, Hamburg, Germany. Died: 15-04-1936 Vienna, Austria. Aged 76. Buried: 18-04-1936 Central cemetery (32C-11), Vienna, Austria. Actor, known for Sodom und Gomorrha (1922), Bogdan Stimoff (1916) and Das Kriegspatenkind (1915). Georg Reimers (1860-1936). Georg Reimers (1860-1936). Sodom und Gomorrha (1922) […]
Theodor Reichmann (1849-1903)
Theodor Reichmann (1849-1903) wearing diamond horseshoe pin. Photo: Wein Krziwanek Jschl Neubau Hofstallstrasse 5, nachts Hotel Holler Franzens Allee 10, Vienna. Profession: Baritone. Residences: Berlin, Prague, Vienna, New York City. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 15-03-1849 Rostock, Germany. Died: 22-05-1903 Marbach, Germany. Buried: Cemetery Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde III, Berlin, […]
Hugo Reichenberger (1873-1938)
Hugo Reichenberger (1873-1938). Profession: Conductor, composer. Residences: Munich, Breslau, Stuttgart, Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Yes. 00-00-0000, Year Born: 28-07-1873 Munich, Germany. Died: 11-10-1938 Munich, Germany. Aged 65. Grave 68-13-5. Buried: 20-12-1968 Hietzing cemetery, Vienna, Austria. Reburied. Worked from 1908 until 1935 in The Hofoper, Vienna. Literature: Gustav Mahler Briefe 1879-1911, hg. von Alma Maria […]
Bussjager & Rattig music publishers
Music publishers. Also: Bussjager and Rattig. Bosendorfer. Theodor Rättig started his firm in Vienna in 1878, and led a quiet existence publishing mainly works for male chorus. However, there was one exception, Bruckner’s 3rd Symphony. Bearing in mind the length of Bruckner’s symphonies, and the composer’s tendency to make several revisions even after first publication, […]
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764). Profession: Clavecinist, composer. Residences: Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 25-09-1683 Dijon, France. Died: 12-09-1764 Paris, France. Buried: Saint Eustache Church, Île-de-France, Paris, France. Jean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera […]
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943). Profession: Pianist, composer. Residences: St Petersburg, Moscow. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 01-04-1873 Great Novgorod, Russia. Died: 28-03-1943 Beverly Hills, California, America. Buried: Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York, America. 1910 Concert New York 16-01-1910. Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian:Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is […]
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas are among the important operas played as standards. Puccini has been called “the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi”. While his early work was rooted in traditional late-19th-century romantic Italian opera, he successfully developed his work in the realistic […]
Alois Przistaupinsky (1852-1943)
No photo. Alois Przistaupinsky (1852-1943) Profession: Mahlers’ secretary at Hofopera Vienna. Residences: Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Mahlers’ secretary at Hofopera Vienna. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 1852 Died: 1943 Buried: 00-00-0000 1894. Alois Przistaupinsky (1852-1943) book. 1919. 50 Jahre Wiener Operntheater. Eine Chronik des Hauses und seiner Künstler in Wort und Bild, der aufgeführten Werke, Komponisten und Autoren […]
Klaus Pringsheim (1883-1972)
Klaus Pringsheim (1883-1972). Klaus Pringsheim Sr. was a German-born composer, conductor, music-educator, and the twin brother of Katharina “Katia” Pringsheim, who married Thomas Mann in 1905. Pringsheim was the son of mathematician and artist Alfred Pringsheim and his wife Hedwig Dohm Pringsheim, who was an actress in Berlin before her marriage. His son, Klaus Pringsheim, […]
Bernhard Pollini (1838-1897)
Bernhard Pollini (1838-1897) Profession: Tenor, intendant, director Stadttheater Hamburg. Residences: Hamburg. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Mahler’s Hamburg post was as chief conductor, subordinate to the director, Bernhard Pohl (known as Pollini) who retained overall artistic control. Pollini was prepared to give Mahler considerable leeway if the conductor could provide commercial as well as artistic […]