Grafin Maria Misa von Wydenbruck-Esterhazy (1859-1926)
Grafin Maria Misa von Wydenbruck-Esterhazy (1859-1926). Also: Grafin Mária Esterházy de Galántha, Mária Gräfin Esterházy, Grafin Wydenbruck-Esterhazy Freiin zu Galantha, Countess, Misa. Profession: Salonniere, financier, singer and pianist. Residences: Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Close friend of Gustav and Alma Mahler. Neigbor. House Wydenbruck – Rennweg No. 1a. Attended 1910 Concert Munich 12-09-1910 – Symphony No. 8 […]
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) in 1910. Hugo Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but diverging greatly in technique. Though he had […]
Eduard Wlassack (1841-1904)
Eduard Wlassack (1841-1904). Profession: Intendant of the Imperial theaters in Vienna, lawyer, accountant Residences: Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Yes. Born: 09-11-1841 Vienna, Austria. Died: 03-06-1904 Salzburg, Austria. Buried: 00-00-0000 Eduard Wlassack (also Eduard Flassac) was a lawyer at the Vienna State Opera. He worked at the Regierungsrat and was from 1881 until 1893 manager and accountant […]
Paul Wittgenstein (1887-1961)
Paul Wittgenstein (1887-1961). More Paul Wittgenstein was an Austrian concert pianist notable for commissioning new piano concerti for the left hand alone, following the amputation of his right arm during the First World War. He devised novel techniques, including pedal and hand-movement combinations, that allowed him to play chords previously regarded as impossible for a […]
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) More Ludwig “Lucki” Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. From 1929–1947, Wittgenstein taught at the University of Cambridge. During his lifetime he published just one slim book, the 75-page Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921), one […]
Hermann Winkelmann (1847-1912)
Hermann Winkelmann (1847-1912). Profession: Tenor Residences: Paris, Hamburg, Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 08-03-1847 Braunschweig, Germany. Died: 18-01-1912 Vienna, Austria. Aged 62. Buried: 21-01-1912 Mauer cemetery, Vienna, Austria. Grave 10-2-3. Opera. German tenor, son of a piano maker. Hermann Winkelmann was born in Braunschweig. He studied with Koch in Hannover […]
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, playwright and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the […]
Grete Wiesenthal (1885-1970)
Grete Wiesenthal (1885-1970), Vienna, 1928. Photo R. R. v. Damaschka. Grete Wiesenthal (1885-1970), Vienna, 1928. Austrian dancer and choreographer. She and her sister Elsa (1887-1967) were both dancers with the Vienna Court Opera Ballet but she left in 1904 to choreograph and perform her own work, which was accompanied primarily by waltz music (Chopin and […]
Franz Werfel (1890-1945)
1909. Franz Werfel (1890-1945). Franz Viktor Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the […]
Egon Wellesz (1885-1974)
This article has been provided thanks to the generosity of Michael Haas from Forbidden Music.You can check get his book here. Egon Wellesz (1885-1974). Egon Joseph Wellesz was an Austrian-born British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music. Although both parents of Wellesz’s were Hungarian Christians, they both had Jewish ancestry. […]