Felix Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg (June 2, 1863 – May 7, 1942) was a conductor, composer and pianist. 2 June is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. ... 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar). ... May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). ... This article is about the year. ... Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ...

Weingartner was born in the Dalmatian city of Zara (today Zadar) to Austrian parents, and the family moved to Graz in 1868. Dalmatia (Croatian Dalmacija, Italian Dalmazia) is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, (mostly) in modern Croatia, spreading between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. ... Zadar (Italian Zara, Latin Iadera) is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea, with a population of 82 000 (2005). ... The Graz Schlossberg Clock Tower Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec IPA: /gra. ... 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...

He was among Franz Liszt's later pupils, and Liszt helped produce Weingartner's opera Sakuntala, though the Weimar orchestra of the 1880s, according to Liszt biographer Alan Walker, was far from its peak of a few decades earlier — and the opera performance ended with orchestra going one way and chorus another. * Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer. ... See also Weimar Republic. ... Alan Walker (born 1930) is an English writer on music who presently teaches at McMaster University, where he chaired the Department of Music from 1971 until 1980. ...

Besides several other operas Weingartner wrote seven symphonies (being recorded by cpo - classic production osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany), a sinfonietta, concertos for violin and for cello, orchestral works, at least four string quartets, quintets for strings and for piano with clarinet (as with Franz Schmidt) and other pieces. His musical style partakes somewhat more of early Romanticism than of its later developments, to say nothing of modernism. As a conductor Weingartner recorded perhaps the first complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies on record; he also wrote books on conducting, on Beethoven's symphonies and on the symphony since Beethoven, and editions of individual works of Gluck, Wagner and others, and a large edition of Berlioz. Before Brian Newbould's more recent work he reconstructed Schubert's Symphony in E major, D. 729 in a version that received some performances and recordings; he also arranged works by a number of early Romantic masters for orchestral performance. Among his students as a conductor were Paul Sacher, Georg Tintner and Josef Krips. A symphony is an extended piece of music usually for orchestra and comprising several movements. ... Osnabrück is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, some 80km NNE of Dortmund, 45km NE of Münster, and some 100km due West of Hanover. ... A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin and orchestra. ... A violoncello concerto is a concerto for solo violoncello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments. ... The resident string quartet of the Library of Congress in 1963 A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—usually two violins, a viola and cello—or a piece written to be performed by such a group. ... A quintet is a formation containing exactly five members. ... Franz Schmidt (December 22, 1874 - February 11, 1939) was an Austrian composer. ... The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from the early 1800s to the first decade of the 20th century, as well as music written according to the norms and styles of that period. ... Gluck, detail of a portrait by Joseph Duplessis, dated 1775 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) Christoph Willibald (von) Gluck (July 2, 1714 – November 15, 1787) was a German composer. ... Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 in Leipzig – February 13, 1883 in Venice) was an influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his groundbreaking symphonic-operas (or music dramas). His compositions are notable for their continuous contrapuntal texture, rich harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate... Portrait of Berlioz by Signol, 1832 Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer best known for the Symphonie fantastique, first performed in 1830, and for his Grande Messe des morts Requiem of 1837, with its tremendous resources that include four antiphonal brass choirs. ... Paul Sacher (April 28, 1906 – May 26, 1999) was a Swiss conductor. ... Georg Tintner (May 22, 1917 - October 2, 1999) was a Viennese-born conductor. ... Josef Alois Krips (born 8 April 1902 in Vienna, died 13 October 1974 in Geneva) was an Austrian conductor and violinist. ...

* Walker sources this to Weingartner's autobiography, published in Zürich and Leipzig in 1928–9.

Works

Symphonies

• Symphony No. 1 in G, op. 23
• Symphony No. 2 in E-flat, op. 29
• Symphony No. 3 in E, op. 49 with organ
• Symphony No. 4 in F, op. 61
• Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 71
• Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 74, 'in Gedenken des 19. November 1828' (also Tragica. Second movement orchestrates, is based on sketches apparently meant for the dance/scherzo or minuet-movement of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, the B minor D759.)
• Symphony No. 7, Choral op. 87 (1935–7) (in manuscript?)

Franz Schuberts Symphony No. ...

Operas

• Sakuntala, op. 9, 1884
• Malakiwa, op. 10, 1886
• Genesius, op. 14, 1892
• Trilogy Orestes, op. 30, 1902
• Kain und Abel, op. 54, 1914
• Dame Kobold (after Pedro Calderón de la Barca; the same play inspired a concert overture by Carl Reinecke and an opera by Joachim Raff), op. 57, 1916
• Die Dorfschule, op. 64, 1920
• Meister Andrea, op. 66, 1920
• Der Apostat, op. 72 — unpublished.

Some material from Grove 6. Pedro Calderon de la Barca Pedro Calderón de la Barca (January 17, 1600 – May 25, 1681), Spanish dramatist and poet, was born in Madrid. ... Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (born June 23, 1824 in Hamburg, Germany; died March 10, 1910 in Leipzig, Germany), musician. ... Joseph Joachim Raff (May 27, 1822 - June 24 or June 25, 1882) was a composer, teacher and pianist. ...

Further Reading

• Raymond Holden, The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN 0300093268.
• Felix Weingartner, On the Performance of Beethoven's Symphonies and Other Essays. New York: Dover Publications reprint, 2004. ISBN 0486439666.
• Felix Weingartner, The Symphony Writers Since Beethoven. Translated from the German by Arthur Bles, and with a notice of the author's own 5th symphony added by D. C. Parker. London: William Reeves (1971?). ISBN 0837143691.

Notes

• Note regarding personal names: Edler is a title, not a first or middle name.