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Columbus (Herzogenberg)
''Columbus'' is an 1870 composition by Heinrich von Herzogenberg. A large scale cantata in Wagnerian style it was premiered at the Graz Music Society Concert Hall on 4 December 1870.The Musical World - Volume 48 - Page 845 1870 ". Graz. — Herr Herzogenberg's dramatic cantata, Columbus, has been very well received here." Recording *Andre Schuen, Michael Schade, Markus Butter, Chor der Oper Graz, Philharmonisches Orchester Graz, Dirk Kaftan CPO 2017 References {{reflist 1870 compositions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Von Herzogenberg
Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg (10 June 1843 – 9 October 1900) was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family. He was born in Graz and was educated at a Jesuit school in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Feldkirch and also in Munich, Dresden and Graz before studying law, philosophy and political science at the university of Vienna. He soon turned his energies to music and attended the composition classes of Felix Otto Dessoff until 1864. Early on he was attracted to the music of Richard Wagner, but after studying Johann Sebastian Bach, J. S. Bach's works he became an adherent of the classical tradition and an advocate for the music of Johannes Brahms, Brahms. In 1866 he married Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, Elisabet von Stockhausen, who had been a piano pupil of Brahms; Brahms's letters to and from both Herzogenbergs form one of the most delightful sections of his correspondence. They lived in Graz until 1872, when they moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Butter
Markus Butter (born 1973) is an Austrian operatic baritone. Career Born in Bruck an der Mur, Butter was a member and soloist of the Vienna Boys' Choir from 1982 to 1986 and graduated in 1991 at the . He received his further education at the and from 1994 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Also in 1994 he began to work as an oratorio and lieder singer in Austria and Germany. From 1998 to 1999 he was a member of the Junge Ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera and from 1999 he was a member of the Bavarian State Opera. Afterwards he moved to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and in 2005 to the Semperoper Dresden. Guest performances led him to the Aalto-Theater in Essen (2014), to the Bregenzer Festspiele (2014) and several times to the Theater an der Wien (2010, 2011, 2015). on JPc Roles (selection) * 2014–2015: D ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
