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Mozart Medal (Mozartgemeinde)
The Mozart Medal of the Mozartgemeinde Wien was a music award named after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Recipients * Heinrich Damisch, 1952 *Wilhelm Furtwängler, 1952 * Heinrich von Kralik, 1952 *Joseph Marx, 1952 *Edwin Fischer, 1953 * Egon von Komorzynsky, 1953 *Irmgard Seefried, 1953 *Wiener Philharmoniker, 1953 *Audrey Christie, 1954 * John Christie, 1954 * Ernst Moravec, 1954 *Leopold Nowak, 1954 *Leopold Wlach, 1954 *Johann Nepomuk David, 1955 * Anton Dermota, 1955 * Hans Pemmer, 1955 *Erich Schenk, 1955 * Amis de Mozart Paris, 1956 *Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1956 *Comune di Milano, 1956 *Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, 1956 *Karl Böhm, 1957 * Maria Gerhart, 1957 *Erich Kunz, 1957 *Erich Müller-Asow, 1957 *Willy Boskovsky, 1958 *Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann, 1958 *Julius Patzak, 1958 * Wiener Oktett, 1958 *Wiener Symphoniker, 1958 * Hans Duhan, 1960 *Bernhard Paumgartner, 1960 *Erik Werba, 1960 *Josef Witt, 1960 *Wilhelm Backhaus, 1961 *Ferdinand Grossmann, 1961 * Wise He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Dermota
Kammersänger Anton Dermota (June 4, 1910 – June 22, 1989) was a Slovene lyric tenor. Early life He was born in a poor family in the Upper Carniolan village of Kropa in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire (and is now in Slovenia). He went to the Ljubljana Conservatory with the intention of studying composition and organ, but in 1934 he received a scholarship which sent him to Vienna. There, he devoted himself exclusively to vocal study with Marie Radó. Career Dermota made his debut at the opera in Cluj in 1934, and was promptly invited by Bruno Walter to perform at the Vienna State Opera. Here he made his début as "First Man in Armor" in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ''The Magic Flute'' in 1936 and got a contract immediately. His first leading role was Alfredo in Giuseppe Verdi's ''La traviata'', which he sang in 1937. In the same year Dermota made his début at the Salzburg Festival in a production of Wagner's ''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'', conducted by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Patzak
Julius Patzak (9 April 189826 January 1974) was an Austrian tenor distinguished in operatic and concert work. He was particularly noted in Mozart, Beethoven and in early 20th-century German repertoire. Biography Julius Patzak was born in Vienna and originally studied conducting. He was also taught composition, by Franz Schmidt, Guido Adler and Eusebius Mandyczewski. It was in 1926 that he decided instead upon a career as a singer, and he made his debut as Radames in ''Aida'' at Reichenberg in that year. He sang regularly at the Munich State Opera from 1928 to 1945, and at Vienna from 1946 to 1960. He appeared in London at Covent Garden in 1938 as Tamino in ''The Magic Flute'', alternating with Richard Tauber, and again several times after the war, notably as Florestan in ''Fidelio''. This role and the title role in Hans Pfitzner's opera ''Palestrina'' were considered to be among his finest roles. In the latter he was pre-eminent among the followers of his Munich predecess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann
Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann, née Meyer-Estorf (6 October 1887 – 2 February 1971) was a German soprano who focused on Lieder singing, and a voice teacher who gave master classes internationally, in collaboration with her husband. She wrote books about teaching singing which have remained standards in the field. Life She was born Carolina Wilhelmine Franziska Meyer-Estorf in Bromberg in northern Poland, where she received vocal training. She studied piano in Leipzig with Robert Teichmüller, graduating in 1911. The following year, she married Carl Adolf Martienssen, a pianist and piano teacher. She studied voice in Berlin with Johannes Messchaert, and first appeared in concert in 1914. She became known as a lieder singer in Germany and abroad. Divorced in 1927, she became a teacher at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich. She met Paul Lohmann (1894–1981), who became her closest colleague, and they married. From 1930 to 1945, she worked at the Akademie für Kirchen- und Schu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Boskovsky
Willibald Karl Boskovsky (16 June 1909 – 21 April 1991) was an Austrian violinist and conductor, best known as the long-standing conductor of the Vienna New Year's Concert from 1955 to 1979. Biography Boskovsky was born in Vienna, and joined the Vienna Academy of music at the age of nine. He was the concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic from 1939 to 1971. He was also, from 1955, the conductor of the Vienna New Year's Concert, which is mostly devoted to the music of Johann Strauss II and his contemporaries. Along with the Vienna Philharmonic, he was also the chief conductor of the Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester up until his death. A forerunner of this ensemble was the 19th-century Strauss Orchestra founded by Johann Strauss I in 1835. He died in Visp, Switzerland. In chamber ensemble he led the ''Boskovsky Quartet'' with Philipp Matheis (2nd violin), Gunther Breitenbach (viola) and Nikolaus Hübner (violoncello). The Boskovsky Quartet, together with Johann Krump (double- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Müller-Asow
The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* aina(z)'', meaning "one, alone, unique", ''as in the form'' ''Æ∆inrikr'' explicitly, but it could also be from ''* aiwa(z)'' "everlasting, eternity", as in the Gothic form ''Euric''. The second element ''- ríkr'' stems either from Proto-Germanic ''* ríks'' "king, ruler" (cf. Gothic ''reiks'') or the therefrom derived ''* ríkijaz'' "kingly, powerful, rich, prince"; from the common Proto-Indo-European root * h₃rḗǵs. The name is thus usually taken to mean "sole ruler, autocrat" or "eternal ruler, ever powerful". ''Eric'' used in the sense of a proper noun meaning "one ruler" may be the origin of ''Eriksgata'', and if so it would have meant "one ruler's journey". The tour was the medieval Swedish king's journey, when newly elected, to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
