Music education Gustav Mahler in Jihlava
Jihlava (1865-1877): Year 1865 – Gustav Mahler aged 5 – Jakob Sladky – Double-bass player. Year 1866 – Gustav Mahler aged 6 – Franz Viktorin (1888) – Conductor. Johannes Brosch (1834) – Violinist. Franz Sturm – Pianist. Jan Zizka – Violinist. Wenzel Pressburg (1824-1906) – Pianist. Heinrich August Fischer (1827-1917) – Music director and conductor.
Jakob Sladky
Profession: Double bass player, teacher. Relation to Mahler: Teacher in Jihlava. See Music education Gustav Mahler in Jihlava. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: Died: Buried: Information from Hollander. Perhaps Sladky was a member of the orchestra of the Stadttheater (Komenskeho street Nos. 24/1357, Spital Gasse No. 4). Franz Viktorin (1888) succeeded Sladky as Mahler’s teacher. House Jakob Sladky (Mincovny […]
Franz Sturm
Profession: Pianist Relation to Mahler: Teacher in Jihlava. See Music education Gustav Mahler in Jihlava. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: Died: Buried: He was the successor of Johannes Brosch (1834).
Johannes Brosch (1834)
Profession: Violinist, pianist, teacher. Relation to Mahler: Teacher in Jihlava. See Music education Gustav Mahler in Jihlava. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 1834, Pirnitz/Brtnice Died: Buried: House Johann Brosch (Komenskeho street Nos. 23/1614, Spital Gasse No. 576). Also called Jan Broz. Franz Viktorin (1888) ran a Musik-Institut in Jihlava together with Johann Brosch.
Franz Viktorin (1888)
Profession: Teacher, conductor Stadttheater (Komenskeho street Nos. 24/1357, Spital Gasse No. 4) Relation to Mahler: Teacher in Jihlava. See Music education Gustav Mahler in Jihlava. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: Died: 08-04-1888 Berlin, Germany. Buried: Teacher of Gustav Mahler. Viktorin ran a Musik-Institut in Jihlava together with Johannes Brosch (1834) (violinist). He left Jihlava in Year 1868. Later conductor in Budweis, […]
Wenzel Pressburg (1824-1906)
Photo Wenzel Pressburg (1824-1906). Profession: Teacher, pianist, composer. Relation to Mahler: Teacher in Jihlava. See Music education Gustav Mahler in Jihlava. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 1824 Vienna, Austria. Died: 1906 Buried: He taught Gustav Mahler piano and music theory. Pressburg, a Viennese, was a pedagogue and prolific composer of waltzes: a man, it seems, of doubtful artistic […]