Karl Muck
Karl Muck ( born October 22, 1859 in Darmstadt, † March 4, 1940 in Stuttgart ) was a German conductor.
Life
Karl Muck was born the son of a Bavarian Deputy Secretary to. After graduating from the grammar school he began studying music at the Collegium Musicum Academicum (Würzburg ). He also studied classical philology at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. In 1877 he continued his studies at the University of Leipzig. In piano, he studied with Carl Reinecke. 1880 was his Ph.D. .. In the same year he made his debut as a pianist at the Gewandhaus with the b- minor Concerto by Xaver Scharwenka.
His career began Muck 1880/81 as a choir director and conductor in Zurich. This was followed in 1882 Salzburg, where he held a position as Kapellmeister operetta, and from 1883 to 1884 Brno. Further stations were 1884-1886 and 1886 Graz Prague, where he held the post of first Kapellmeister at the German National Theatre. In 1892 he was principal conductor at the Royal. Berlin Court Opera. From 1908 to 1912 he was musical director. From 1912 to 1918 he led the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After he allegedly refused to let them play in a concert the American national anthem, he was interned from March 1918 until his expulsion on 21 August 1919 in a warehouse in Oglethorpe (Georgia ). From 1922 he was head of the Hamburg Philharmonic. After his last concert on 19 May 1933, he retired.
Another focus of peep -operation were from 1901 to 1930, the Bayreuth Festival; mainly, he conducted Parsifal. Also he had from 1894 to 1911 the management of the Silesian Music Festival in Görlitz.
The acclaimed musician is one of the first travel conductors. Abroad, it preferably has given concerts in London and in 1906 in Boston (USA). From 1903 to 1906 he also worked with Felix Mottl alternately with the Vienna Philharmonic. As a musician Muck was regarded as strictly and objectively. He was a great connoisseur of Richard Wagner's operas, in which he used wide, pathetic time dimensions. He advocated as possible to keep the appointments for the performances of Wagner's works " free of Jews " and only when no alternatives were available to " the bitter Jewish apple [ to ] bite ," as he put it. Also in the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra no Jewish musicians were welcome. So Muck rejected the inclusion of violinist Hendrik Prins as " nappy soft request " from; actually is " Kaffir no answer worthy ".
The space between the Hamburg Music Hall and the present Brahms office was from 1934 Muck's name. In April 1997, one hundred years after Brahms ' death, it was renamed Johannes-Brahms -Platz. One reason was also peep admiration for Adolf Hitler.
Awards (selection)
- Honorary citizen of Bayreuth ( 1926)
- Johannes Brahms Medal of the City of Hamburg
- Eagle shield of the German Empire (1939 )