Max Kalbeck (January 4, 1850 in Breslau – May 4, 1921 in Vienna) was an important German writer on music, critic and translator. January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Wrocław. ... May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Croatian and Serbian: Beč Romanian: Viena, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya;) Vienna is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ...

Kalbeck studied music at Munich. In 1875 he became music-critic of the Schlesische Zeitung and assistant director the Breslau Museum. Kalbeck came to Vienna in 1880 on the invitation of Eduard Hanslick, first as critic of the Allgemeine Zeitung and then, from 1886 till his death, of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt. He became one of the most influential critics in Austria and, like Hanslick, was bitterly opposed to the music of Wagner, Bruckner and Hugo Wolf. Munich and the Bavarian Alps Munich (German: München, (pronounced listen) is the largest city and capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria. ... Eduard Hanslick (September 11, 1825 – August 6, 1904) was a German writer on music, perhaps the most influential music critic of the 19th century. ... Wagner may refer to more than one place in the United States: Wagner, South Dakota Wagner, Wisconsin Wagner may refer to more than one person: Richard Wagner, German composer Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner Heinrich Leopold Wagner, dramatist and author John Peter Honus Wagner... Anton Bruckner Anton Bruckner (September 4, 1824 – October 11, 1896) was an Austrian composer. ... Photograph of Hugo Wolf Hugo Wolf (March 13, 1860 – February 22, 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. ...

On the other hand, also like Hanslick, he became a close friend and partisan of Brahms. His principal achievement was his eight-volume biography of the composer, published from 1904 to 1914, which became the standard work on the subject and remains, despite some failings attributable to attitudes at the time in which it was written, an indispensable source. (It has never been translated into English.) Kalbeck also edited several volumes of Brahms’s Correspondence and, in 1918, the Letters of the poets Gottfried Keller and Paul Heyse, as well as publishing two collections of his reviews. Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833 – April 3, 1897) was a German composer of Romantic music, who predominantly lived in Vienna, Austria. ... Sir Thomas Malory wrote the most famous fictional biography of the Middle Ages with Le Morte dArthur about the life of King Arthur. ... Gottfried Keller (July 19, 1819 – July 15, 1890) was a Swiss writer who is best known as the master of the Novelle. ... Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (March 15, 1830 - April 2, 1914) was a German author. ...

In addition to his translations he provided new libretti for, among other works, Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne and La Finta Giardiniera; and he revised those of Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro for Gustav Mahler's productions at the Vienna Hofoper. In addition he supplied lyrics for the songs in the operetta Yabuka by Johann Strauss II, the dialogue and plot being the work of Gustav Davis. Kalbeck wrote poetry of his own; Brahms set a few of his verses as songs. Libretto can also refer to a sub-notebook PC manufactured by Toshiba. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ... Gustav Mahler in 1909 Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. ... Operetta (literally, little opera) is a performance art-form similar to opera, though it generally deals with less serious topics. ... Johann Strauss II The Waltz King coming to life in the Stadtpark, Vienna Johann Strauss II (or Johann Strauß Sohn - Johann Strauss son - or Johann Strauss the Younger, or Johann Strauss Jr. ...