Felix Mottl

Felix Josef Mottl of ( born August 24, 1856 in sub- Sankt Veit near Vienna, † July 2, 1911 in Munich) was an Austrian conductor and composer.

Life

Mottl studied with Anton Bruckner, was a talented conductor of the operas of Richard Wagner known and in 1876 invited the mediation of Hans Richter as an assistant at the Bayreuth Festival, where he. , The premiere of Der Ring des Nibelungen with prepared From 1880 to 1903 he was Kapellmeister to the court orchestra Grand Ducal Baden Karlsruhe. Since 1886 he has conducted regularly in Bayreuth: in eleven festival periods 1886-1906, he led a total of 69 performances, he also was a teacher of Wagner 's son Siegfried Wagner. From 1898 to 1900 he led the British performances of Wagner operas at London's Royal Opera House Covent Garden. In 1903, he prepared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the U.S. premiere of Parsifal ago, stepped off the line but at the last moment back. In the season 1903/ 04 he conducted at the Metropolitan Opera 62 performances and concerts. Also in 1903 he went to the Court Opera in Munich, first as first Kapellmeister, and from 1907 until his death as a music director. Mottl also composed even some operas and numerous songs and instrumental works. In 1907, he recorded some piano rolls for Welte-Mignon, including his own transcriptions for piano from Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde.

In accordance with Cosima Wagner, Felix Mottl sat for a, at the Bayreuth Festival Jewish singers and musicians if possible by the active involvement ruled out.

Due to his contributions to the music he was raised to the peerage personal. Mottl suffered in the middle of his 100th performance of Tristan und Isolde at June 21, 1911 a collapse, as well Keilberth 1968. He died on July 2, after he had married yet on June 26, with the singer Zdenka Fassbender in hospital. From his first marriage came in 1894, born in 1962 died in Schrobenhausen - Sandizell son Wolfgang Mottl, who became known as a pioneer of potato breeding in Europe and famous. His son Wolfgang Mottl jun. emigrated to Canada in 1952, while his youngest son, Dr. Felix Mottl was also known as Chief Prosecutor at the Bavarian State Supreme Court as a long-time president of the German road.

In 1911 in Vienna Dobling ( 19th District ), the Felix Mottl street named after him.

Works

Stage Works

• Agnes Bernauer ( free after Friedrich Hebbel ), stage play in 3 acts (1880 Weimar)
• Pan in the bush ( Otto Julius Bierbaum ), dance game in 1 act (1881 Karlsruhe)
• Prince and singer (Josef Viktor Widmann ), opera in 1 act
• The death of Narcissus (Alfred Walter Heymel ), dramatic poem in one act with music from Gluck's motives (1898 )
• Eberstein ( Gustav to Pulitz ), hard Opera (1881 Karlsruhe)
• Rama, stage play (1894, manuscript )

Other works

• String Quartet in F sharp minor (1904 )
• Songs
• Austrian Dances for Piano Four Hands