Julius Weis von Ostborn (1862-1927)
Julius Weis von Ostborn (1862-1927). Profession: Composer, councillor, choral conductor, hofrat. Residences: Relation to Mahler: Friend and promotor of the compositions by Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Yes. 00-00-0000, Year Born: 11-02-1862 Vienna, Neustadt, Austria. Died: 24-09-1927 in Maria Saal, Klagenfurt, Austria. Aged 65. Buried: Unknown. Julius Weis Ritter von Ostborn, Julius von Weis-Ostborn. Financial officer and […]
Felix von Weingartner (1863-1942)
Felix von Weingartner (1863-1942). Profession: Conductor, composer. Residences: Graz, Berlin, Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Yes. 23-04-1897, Year 1897. Born: 02-06-1863 Zadar, Croatia. Died: 07-05-1942 Wintherthur, Switzerland. Buried: 00-00-0000 Rosenberg cemetery, Winterthur, Switzerland. Paul Felix von Weingartner, (title Edler) von Münzberg was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist. Weingartner was born in Zara, Dalmatia, Austria–Hungary (now Zadar, […]
Friedrich Weidemann (1871-1919)
Friedrich Weidemann (1871-1919). Profession: Baritone. Leading Baritone at the Vienna Hofoper from 1903 until his death. Residences: Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Invited by Gustav Mahler to join the Vienna Hofoper in 1903. He sang the world premieres of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and Das Lied von der Erde in the original baritone version. 1902- Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 01-01-1871 Ratzeburg, […]
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Anton Webern (1883-1945). Anton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the Second Viennese School. As a student, significant follower of, and influence on Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known exponents of the twelve-tone technique. His characteristically unique innovations regarding schematic organization of pitch, rhythm and dynamics were […]
Karl von Weber (1849-1897)
Karl von Weber (1849-1897). Saxon army officer and grandson of composer Carl Maria von Weber. Mahler was friendly with him and his wife, Marion von Weber (1856-1931), in Leipzig (in fact, Mahler and Marion von Weber had an affair). Through Weber, Mahler obtained the sketches and drafts of Carl Maria von Weber’s unfinished opera Die […]
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826). Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school. Weber’s operas Der Freischütz, Euryanthe and Oberon greatly influenced the development of the Romantische Oper (Romantic opera) in Germany. Der Freischütz came to be regarded as […]
Marion von Weber-Schwabe (1856-1931)
Marion von Weber-Schwabe (1856-1931). Marion Schwabe is listed as age 5 in the 1861 census, living in Chorlton upon Medlock (essentially the area where the RNCM and Manchester University now are), in the Ward of St Luke, part of the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester. Marion’s father is given as Adolph Schwabe, age 38, a calico […]
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Richard Wagner (1813-1883). More Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, “music dramas”). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing […]
Otto Wagner (1841-1918)
Otto Wagner (1841-1918). Otto Koloman Wagner was an Austrian architect and urban planner, known for his lasting impact on the appearance of his home town Vienna, to which he contributed many landmarks. Wagner was born in Penzing, a district in Vienna. He was the son of Suzanne (née von Helffenstorffer-Hueber) and Rudolf Simeon Wagner, a […]
Cosima Wagner (1837-1930)
Cosima Wagner (1837-1930). More Cosima Wagner (born Francesca Gaetana Cosima Liszt) was the daughter of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt. She became the second wife of the German composer Richard Wagner, and with him founded the Bayreuth Festival as a showcase for his stage works; after his death she devoted the rest of […]