Walter Henry Rothwell

Walter Henry Rothwell ( born September 22, 1872 in London, † March 12, 1927 in Santa Monica ) was an English conductor.

Rothwell studied piano and conducting in Vienna and was a coach at the Vienna Court Opera, before he became an assistant to Gustav Mahler in Hamburg. He then appeared at the opera houses of Frankfurt and Amsterdam. In the USA, he joined in 1905 the first time as a conductor.

Some years later he took over the management of the St. Paul Symphony Orchestra. After its demise, he went to New York. In 1919, he became the first conductor of the newly formed Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, which he led until his death.

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  • Kevin Starr: Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s, Oxford University Press U.S., 1991, ISBN 019507260X, pp. 164 f
  • Conductor
  • Briton
  • Born in 1872
  • Died in 1927
  • Man
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