Jascha Horenstein (May 6 [O.S. April 24] 1898 in Kiev - April 2, 1973 in London) was a conductor. May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ... Old Style or O.S. is a designation indicating that a date conforms to the Julian calendar, formerly in use in many countries, rather than the Gregorian calendar, currently in use in most countries. ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Location Map of Ukraine with Kiev highlighted. ... April 2 is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... A conductor conducting a band at a ceremony A conductors score and batons Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ...
Horenstein was born in Kiev; his mother was Austrian. His family moved to Vienna in 1911 and he studied there with Joseph Marx (music theory) and Franz Schreker (composition) before moving to Berlin and working as an assistant to Wilhelm Furtwängler. During the 1920s he conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Forced as a Jew to flee the Nazis, he moved to the United States of America in 1940 (he eventually became an American citizen). He died in London. Location Map of Ukraine with Kiev highlighted. ... Vienna (German: , see also other names) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... Joseph Marx (b. ... Franz Schreker (March 23, 1878 – March 21, 1934) was an Austrian composer and conductor. ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... Wilhelm Furtwängler (January 25, 1886 – November 30, 1954) was a German conductor and composer. ... Categories: Musical group stubs | Austrian orchestras ... The Berlin Philharmonic rehearsing in the Berliner Philharmonie. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Horenstein is particularly remembered as a champion of modern music. In 1929 he conducted the premiere of the arrangement for strings of three movements of Alban Berg's Lyric Suite), and for his advocacy of the works of Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler at a time when both composers were very unfashionable; his 1951 Vox recording of Mahler's Ninth Symphony was the first commercial record of that work. He gave the first (concert) performance of Berg's Wozzeck in 1950. He recorded Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde in 1972 and all of Mahler's symphonies apart from the 2nd and 5th, and Robert Simpson's 3rd Symphony during 1969 to 1971. 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Portrait of Alban Berg by Arnold Schoenberg, c. ... Lyric Suite is a six-movement work for string quartet written by Alban Berg between 1925 and 1926. ... Bruckner redirects here. ... This article cites its sources but does not provide page references. ... Wozzeck is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) is particularly interesting among Gustav Mahlers symphonic works. ... Robert Simpson may refer to: Robert Simpson, Canadian founder of Simpsons Department Store Robert Simpson, English musician Bob Simpson, American meteorologist and co-developer of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ...
In the case of conductorJaschaHorenstein, the ingredients for cult designation include his inability to hold down a regular job, comparative neglect during his lifetime, his promotion of Gustav Mahler (who turned out to be the biggest cult composer of the 20th century), and the wildly variable quality of his surviving recorded legacy.
The Horenstein cult, which is not large, but which regularly pops up in internet chat groups-- especially those devoted to Mahler--has thus found a perfect object of veneration, because so much of his surviving work is simply dreadful by any standard.
In terms of what was readily available, Horenstein was indeed a contender, and in the minds of some he remains one, despite the clearly audible evidence that his interpretation is not particularly outstanding, and has been surpassed both interpretively and sonically dozens of times over.
JaschaHorenstein (May 6, 1898 - April 2, 1973) was a conductor.
Horenstein was born in Kiev; his mother was Austrian.
Horenstein is particularly remembered for championing modern music (in 1929 he conducted the premiere of the arrangement for strings of three movements of Alban Berg'sLyric Suite), and for his advocacy of the works of Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler at a time when both composers were very unfashionable.
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