Ernst Kunwald

Ernst Kunwald ( born April 14, 1868 in Vienna, † December 12, 1939 ) was an Austrian conductor.

Life

Kunwald studied law at the University of Vienna, where he 1891 Dr. iur. doctorate. He also studied piano with Teodor Leszetycki and Hermann Graedener. At the Musikhochschule Leipzig, he was a pupil of Salomon Jadassohn.

Emerged as an opera conductor Between 1895 and 1907, he spent five years as assistant conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. In 1912, he was the successor of Leopold Stokowski at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. As Woodrow Wilson in 1917 the German Empire declared war, attended the Daughters of the American Revolution for a performance ban Kunwalds in Pittsburgh. In December 1917 detained by the United States Marshals Service for a day, Kunwald asked for his dismissal. According to the Alien and Sedition Acts was interned in January 1918 in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Karl Muck kept him from March 1918 society. Since Kunwald did not hide his sympathies for the German war side, him honorary membership in Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in was disallowed.

After returning to Germany, he conducted during the Weimar Republic, the Konigsberg Symphonies (1920-1927) and the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra ( 1928-1931 ).