Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). Pjotr (Pyotr, Peter) Iljitsj (Ilyich) Tchaikovsky (Chaykovsky, Tschaikowsky) was a Russian composer whose works included symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, chamber music, and a choral setting of the Russian Orthodox Divine Liturgy. Some of these are among the most popular theatrical music in the classical repertoire. He was the first Russian composer […]
Wilhelm Treiber (1838-1899)
No photo. Wilhelm Treiber (1838-1899). Profession: Conductor. Residences: Kassel. Relation to Mahler: Mahlers superior. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 1838. Died: 1899. Buried: Unknown. Kapellmeister Kassel 1880-1899. By October 1883, Mahler had slipped one harness and moved on to another even more chafing, at Kassel, as assistant to a principal conductor at the Royal Theater, one […]
Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957)
Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957). Arturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and of the 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory. He was at various times the music director of La Scala Milan, […]
Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907)
Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907). Profession: Composer. Residences: Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Yes. 00-00-0000, Year Born: 30-11-1861 Bozen/Bolzano, Italy. Died: 05-02-1907 Munich, Germany. Buried: Unknown. Ludwig Wilhelm Andreas Maria Thuille was an Austrian composer and teacher, numbered for a while among the leading operatic composers of the ‘Munich School’, whose most famous representative was Richard Strauss. He lost […]
Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)
Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896). Profession: Composer. Residences: Paris. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 05-08-1811 Metz, France. Died: 12-02-1896 Paris, France. Buried: 00-00-0000 Montmartre cemetery, Paris, France. Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas was a French composer, best known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868, after Shakespeare) and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from […]
Franz von Suppè (1819-1895)
Franz von Suppè (1819-1895) Profession: Conductor, composer. Residences: Spalato (now Split) (1819-1819), Zara (now Zadar) (1819-1835), Vienna (1835-1895) and Gars am Kamp (1876-1895). Relation to Mahler: On 19-09-1882 Mahler conducted Franz von Suppè (1819-1895)’s ‘Boccaccio’ in Iglau. Gustav Mahler lived 1879-1879 House Gustav Mahler Vienna – Opernring No. 23. It is the house where Franz von Suppè […]
Rosa Sucher (1849-1927)
Rosa Sucher (1849-1927). Profession: Soprano. Residences: Munich, Berlin, Leipzig, New York City Relation to Mahler: Worked with gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 23-02-1849 Velburg, Germany. Died: 16-04-1927 Eschweiler, Germany. Buried: Alter Domfriedhof St. Hedwig, Berlin, Germany. Grave site leveled, location lost. Opera. Rosa Sucher, née Hasselbeck, was a German operatic soprano renowned for her Wagnerian performances. […]
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (sometimes spelled Strawinski, Strawinsky, Stravinskii, Igor’ Fëdorovic Stravinskij) was a Russian (and later, a naturalized French and American) composer, pianist and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky’s compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first […]
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949). Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Salome (Year 1905) and Der Rosenkavalier (Year 1911); his lieder, especially his Four Last Songs (1948); his tone poems, including Don Juan (Year 1888), Death and Transfiguration (Year […]
Johan Jr. Strauss (1825-1899)
Johan Jr. Strauss (1825-1899). Profession: Violinist, conductor, composer. Residences: Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Yes. 11-03-1894, Year 1894. Born: 25-10-1825 Vienna. Died: 03-06-1899 Vienna. Aged 73. Buried: 07-06-1899 Central cemetery, Vienna. Austria. Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) attended funeral. Grave 32A-27. Johann Strauss Jr, also known as Johann Strauss II, the Younger, the Son, Johann Baptist Strauss, was an […]