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Michael Hebenstreit
Michael Hebenstreit (ca 1812 – after 1875) was an Austrian Kapellmeister and composer for stage music. Life Almost nothing has been handed down about Hebenstreit's life, only a few scores have survived. He was a successor to Adolf Müller senior as Kapellmeister as well as in the field of stage music and often worked together with Johann Nestroy. His place of activity was the Leopoldstädter Theater, which, after being demolished and rebuilt under director Carl Carl, was renamed the Carltheater The Carltheater was a theatre in Vienna. It was in the suburbs in Leopoldstadt at Praterstraße 31 (at that time called Jägerzeile). It was the successor to the Leopoldstädter Theater. After a series of financial difficulties, that theater had ... in December 1847, where he worked until his death in 1875. After the premiere of ' on 17 November 1849, the ''Österreichische Courier'' of 20 November 1849 (No 276, ) wrote rather derogatory about Hebenstreit's music, it would be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austrian Empire
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Walter Obermaier
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19th-century Composers
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Austrian Romantic Composers
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Walter De Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. History The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Berlin the royal privilege to open a bookstore and "to publish good and useful books". In 1800, the store was taken over by Georg Reimer (1776–1842), operating as the ''Reimer'sche Buchhandlung'' from 1817, while the school’s press eventually became the ''Georg Reimer Verlag''. From 1816, Reimer used the representative Sacken'sche Palace on Berlin's Wilhelmstraße for his family and the publishing house, whereby the wings contained his print shop and press. The building became a meeting point for Berlin salon life and later served as the official residence of the president of Germany. Born in Ruhrort in 1862, Walter de Gruyter took a position with Reimer Verlag in 1894. By 1897, at the age of 35, he had become sole proprietor of the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Kaiser
Friedrich Kaiser (3 April 1814, Biberach - 6 November 1874, Vienna) was an Austrian playwright. During his youth he was one of the most popular people in Vienna. Some of his plays were "Hans Hasenkopf" (1835); "Wer wird Amtmann __NOTOC__ The ''Amtmann'' or ''Ammann'' (in Switzerland) was an official in German-speaking countries of Europe and in some of the Nordic countries from the time of the Middle Ages whose office was akin to that of a bailiff. He was the most seni ..." (1840), "Palais und Irrenhaus" (1863), "Des Krämers Töchterlein" (1862), "Pater Abraham a Sancta Clara" as well as many others. He also wrote the historical novel "Ein Plaffenfeben.""Friedrich Kaiser." The Oxford Companion to German Literature. Oxford University Press, 1976, 1986, 1997, 2005. Answers.com 12 Nov. 2009. http://www.answers.com/topic/friedrich-kaiser References 1814 births 1874 deaths People from Biberach an der Riss People from the Kingdom of Württemberg Austrian male dramatis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Hopp
Friedrich Ernst Hopp (23 August 1789 – 23 June 1869) was an Austrian actor and writer. Life Born in Brünn, Hopp was the son of a factory worker. At first he started a commercial career, worked as a traveling salesman and accountant and was active as a layman actor.Friedrich Johann von Reden-Esbeck: ''Deutsches Bühnen-Lexikon''. Eichstätt 1879 From 1815 he was engaged at various theaters in Brünn, Graz, Bratislava and Baden bei Wien until he got a position at the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt in 1822. From 1825 he worked parallel to this at the Theater an der Wien. In Vienna he experienced the height of his acting career and became a darling of the public. In 1833 he played the journeyman carpenter Leim in the world premiere of Johann Nestroy's Posse mit Gesang '.Philipp Stein: ''Deutsche Schauspieler. Band 2: Das 19. Jahrhundert''. Gesellschaft für Theatergeschichte, Berlin 1909 Standing in Nestroy's shadow and becoming more and more unsuccessful, Hopp left the Theater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Turteltaub
Wilhelm Turteltaub (25 March 1816 – after 1859) was an Austrian physician and writer. Life and achievements Born in Rzeszów, Turteltaub came from a wealthy Jewish family from Galicia. His father was a doctor in Rzeszów. At the age of nine he went to Latin school and in his free time was engaged in foreign languages and music. During a visit in Lviv he got to know the theatre and at home he was given access to the library of the district commissioner Franz Stadion, Count von Warthausen, who later became governor of Galicia. At the age of 12, Turteltaub wrote his first plays. In 1830 he began to study philosophy, and at the end of 1832 he went to Vienna at the age of 17 to study medicine. His humorous-satirical works soon appeared in ''Wanderer'', in ''Sammler'' and in the '' Wiener Theaterzeitung'' by Adolf Bäuerle. In 1835 his first book ''Wiener Fresco-Skizzen'' was published. In this time he made the acquaintance of Moritz Gottlieb Saphir, for whose magazine ''Der Humori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Kilian Schickh
Josef Kilian Schickh (7 January 1799 – 22 May 1851) was an Austrian playwright who wrote mainly fairy tales, lokalposse and parodies for the , one of the three . He was the nephew of the journalist Johann Schickh and a contemporary of Johann Nestroy, Karl Meisl, Josef Alois Gleich and Franz Xaver Told. Life Born in 1799 in Landstraße (Vienna), Schickh was the son of the Viennese merchant Josef Schickh. He attended the Academic Gymnasium and started his military service in 1815 as furir at the . In 1819 he quit the service and worked first in the Court War Accounting Department, later on at the Universalcameral-Zahlamt (until 1845). He then changed to the Universal-Staats- und Banco-Schuldencasse, where he remained until his death. He was married to the actress Antonie Schickh (1808–1870). Literary activity Besides his civil service career, he wrote more than 70 plays for the suburban theaters of Vienna with which he achieved considerable success although they mostly o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität
The Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna ( (MUK)) in Vienna, Austria, is a university of music and the arts. It was previously (2005−2015) named (KONSuni, Konservatorium Wien University), and before that (Conservatory of Vienna). It was established in 1938 as '. The school attained university status on 15 June 2005, as a private institution. Faculty * Linda Watson, American dramatic soprano Notable natives * Wen Yi-jen, Taiwanese conductor * Falco, Austrian singer External links * Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ... Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna Music in Vienna Educational institutions established in 1938 1938 establishments in Austria Private universities and colleges in Austria {{Austria-university-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etelka Gerster
Etelka Gerster (25 June 1855, Košice20 August 1920, Pontecchio) was a Hungarian soprano. She debuted in Italy in 1876 and sang in London the following year. In 1878, she was performing in the Academy of Music where she was considered one of the leading singers of her time. That year, she married Pietro Gardini.Gerster, Etelka in '''' (1901-1902 edition), via She and Gardini subsequently had a child, after which Gerster never sang professionally again. From 1896 until 1917, she taught singing in Berlin. Among her students w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Hüttner
Johann Hüttner (born 6 April 1939) is an Austrian theatre studies scholar, Germanist and one of the complete editors and volume editors of the historical-critical Johann Nestroy edition. Life Born in Vienna, after studying theatre and German literature, Hüttner was a professor at the University of Vienna since 1991, at the Institute for Theatre Studies, of which he was chairman between 2000 and 2004. After his retirement in autumn 2004, he taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar until 2006. Hüttner has published mainly on the topics of social history of theatre, Volkstheater, the connection between film and theatre. His special research interests are Austrian theatre history of the 19th century. In addition, he is one of the complete editors of the historical-critical Nestroy edition and editors of the new historical-critical Raimund edition. Hüttner is president of the Grillparzer-Gesellschaft. Further reading * ''Festsc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
