Ludwig Karpath (27 April 1866 – 8 September 1936) (also ''Ludwig Kárpáth'') was an Austrian musicologist.

Life

Born in

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, Karpath, son of Moritz Karpath and his wife Johanna, ''née'' Goldmark, was a nephew of the composer Karl Goldmark. He graduated from high school in Budapest and studied violin, composition and music history at the conservatory there. He also took singing lessons and trained as a bass-baritone. In 1885 he moved to Vienna. In 1886 he undertook a study trip to America, where he worked as a musician and opera singer. In 1888 he finally settled in Vienna and worked for various Viennese newspapers as

music critic ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". In this sense, it is a branch of mus ...

. From 1894 to 1921 he was permanent music consultant for the ''

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'' and from 1914 to 1917 editor of the music magazine ''Der Merker''. He advocated the nationalization of the

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). ...

, the founding of the

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and the construction of the Konzerthaus and was a well-known promoter of young talent. From 1923 he worked in the Bundestheater administration as a consultant for musical matters. Karpath worked with numerous composers, including

Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...

, Pietro Mascagni,

Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, 22 December 1858Bruxelles, 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long li ...

Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism ...

and his wife

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Max Reger Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, as a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University ...

and

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and Cosima Wagner as well as musicians, such as Arthur Nikisch, Hans Richter and

Felix Mottl right Felix Josef von Mottl (between 29 July/29 August 1856 – 2 July 1911) was an Austrian conductor and composer. He was regarded as one of the most brilliant conductors of his day. He composed three operas, of which ''Agnes Bernauer'' (Weima ...

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dedicated his ballet ''Schlagobers'' to him in 1924. In several publications he dedicated himself to these persons. As gourmet he also published a cookbook. Karpart died in Vienna at age 70. On 10 September 1936, Karpath was buried in an honorary tomb at the Wiener Zentralfriedhof (group 30D, series 1, No. 170).

Awards

* Title

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(1926) * (28. April 1936). * Officer's Cross of the * Knight's Cross of the Swedish Order of Vasa, 1 Classe * Titel

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Work

* '' Siegfried Wagner als Mensch und Künstler''. Leipzig 1902, Reihe Moderne Musiker, vol. 10. * ''Der Kobold von Siegfried Wagner. Eine Erläuterung der Dichtung und Musik''. H. Seemann Nfg. Berlin/Leipzig, o. J. (1904). * '' Zu den Briefen Richard Wagners an eine Putzmacherin. Unterredung mit der Putzmacherin Bertha. Ein Beitrag zur Lebensgeschichte Richard Wagners''. Harmonie, Berlin 1906. * ''Unarten und Rücksichtslosigkeiten''. Knepler, Vienna 1913. * ''Richard Wagner, "Der Schuldenmacher". Mit zahlreichen, unbekannten und ungedruckten Dokumenten, Rechnungen, Schuldscheinen und Briefen''. Kamoenenverlag, Vienna/Leipzig 1914. * ''Lachende Musiker. Anekdotisches von Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss,

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, Brahms, Bruckner, Goldmark,

Hugo Wolf Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf (13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Ro ...

, Gustav Mahler und anderen Musikern. Erlebtes und Nacherzähltes''. With a foreword by

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. Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1929. * ''Begegnung mit dem Genius. Denkwürdige Erlebnisse mit Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, Hans Richter, Max Reger, Puccini,

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, Fürstin Marie Hohenlohe, Fürstin

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, Franz Lehár und vielen anderen bedeutenden Menschen''. 2. Auflage. Fiba, Vienna 1934. * ''Jedermann seine eigene Köchin. 222 auserlesene Kochrezepte mit Ratschlägen und einer Betrachtung über Feinschmeckerei''. Knorr & Hirth, München 1928.
3., neuerlich erweiterte Auflage. Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1930. Editions and forewords * ''Richard Wagner. Briefe an Hans Richter''. Edited by Ludwig Karpath. Zsolnay, Vienna 1924. * : ''O, diese Künstler. Indiskretionen eines Managers''. foreword by Ludwig Karpath. Fiba, Vienna 1930. (foreword). Posthumous publications * ''Österreich tafelt''. With a short dinner speech by Felix Salten and a portrait of the host by

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. Prestel, Munich 1973, . * ''Kalbsschnitzel "Casa Mahler". Ein sehr wienerisches Kochbuch aus der Rezeptensammlung berühmter Persönlichkeiten''. Metroverlag, Vienna 2008, .

Literature

* * Salomon Wininger: ''Große Jüdische National-Biographie''. (Band 3). Czernowitz 1928, . * Felix Czeike (ed.): ''Historisches Lexikon Wien''. Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, , . * Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: ''Handbuch österreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren jüdischer Herkunft 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert.'' Volume 2: ''J–R.'' edited by the Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek.

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, Munich 2002, , . * Rudolf Flotzinger (ed.): '' Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon''. (volume 2). Edition of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2003, . * Helmut Brenner, Reinhold Kubik: Mahlers Menschen. Freunde und Weggefährten. St. Pölten – Salzburg – Vienna 2014, , .

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Karpath, Ludwig Austrian music critics Music critics from Austria-Hungary Musicologists from Austria-Hungary 1866 births 1936 deaths People from Pest, Hungary People from Austria-Hungary