Hugo Röhr (13 February 1866 – 7 June 1937) was a German conductor, composer and academic teacher.

Life

Born in

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, Röhr studied with Franz Wüllner, Adolf Blaßmann and Felix Draeseke at the conservatory in Dresden. Röhr first worked as a solo

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at the court opera there in 1886 and as a conductor at the

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municipal theatre in 1887/88. In the 1888/89 season, he worked at the Hoftheater Kassel, then at the Deutsches Landestheater in Prague and from 1890 until 1892 in Breslau, where he married the soprano , who became famous later on. Especially from 1897, he accompanied her at her recitals in Munich. From 1892 until 1896, he was first

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at the

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, from 1896 he succeeded Hermann Levi at the court theatre in Munich and in 1899 he was appointed court Kapellmeister. There, he also became recognised as composer with his oratorio ''Ekkehard'', which he conducted within the famous concert series Musikalische Akademie in both 1901 and 1902. In 1904, he created his first opera, ''Das Vaterunser'', to a

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, performed at the court theatre. In 1922 he became a lecturer at the

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, Munich, where he became appointed professor after one year, and was a teacher for

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and directed the opera school and orchestra exercises until 1034. His students there included Otto Schulmann, Heinz Schubert, Fanny Pracher, ,

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and Paul Ben-Haim. Between 1911 and 1914, he directed the Munich teachers' choral society. Röhr died in Munich at the age of 71.

Work

Röhr's compositions include three

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, vocal and

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Operas

* ''Das Vaterunser'', premiere in Munich on 14 May 1904 * ''Frauenlist'', premiere in Leipzig in 1917Frauenlist: musikalisches Lustspiel in einem Aufzuge
Drei-Masken-Verlag 1917 * ''Coeur-Dame'', premiere in Munich in 1927

Oratorio

* ''Ekkehard'', premiere in Innsbruck in 1900

References

External links

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Hugo Röhr
(autographs) kotte-autographs.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Rohr, Hugo German Romantic composers 20th-century German composers Academic staff of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich 1866 births 1937 deaths Musicians from Dresden