Hugo Reichenberger (28 July 187311 October 1938) was a German conductor and composer. After stations in

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

Aachen Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

and Munich ( National Theatre) Hugo Reichenberger became 1st "Kapellmeister" at the Stadttheater Frankfurt/Main in 1905 where he premiered

Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wag ...

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Salome Salome (; he, שְלוֹמִית, Shlomit, related to , "peace"; el, Σαλώμη), also known as Salome III, was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II, son of Herod the Great, and princess Herodias, granddaughter of Herod the Great, an ...

'' in 1907. From 1908 to 1935 he was a permanent conductor at the Vienna Court Opera and State Opera. He was one of the most frequent conductors of the Vienna State Opera, giving more than 2000 performances, among which emerge the premieres of

' '' Elektra'' in 1909 and Leos Janáceks '' Jenufa'' in 1918. As a guest conductor he visited Madrid, Berlin (Philharmonic Orchestra), Coburg, Bukarest, Munich, Warsaw, Budapest, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels and Egypt.

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