Frank Van der Stucken

Frank Valentine Van der Stucken (* October 15, 1858 in Fredericksburg ( Texas), † October 16, 1929 in Hamburg) was an American conductor and composer.

Van der Stucken was the son of Belgian emigrants from Antwerp. His father served as a captain in the First Texas Cavalry in the American Civil War and in 1864 head of judiciary, the Gillespie County. In 1865 the family returned to Antwerp.

Here Van studied the Stucken 1866-1876 violin with Émile Wambach and composition with Peter Benoit. At the age of sixteen he composed a Te Deum that. In the Antwerp Sint- Jacob 's Church and an orchestral ballet, which was performed at the Royal Theatre

In 1876 he visited the Bayreuth Festival and went to Leipzig, where he studied with Carl Reinecke, Victor Langer and Edvard Grieg to 1878. While traveling through Europe he met, among others the composer Giuseppe Verdi, Emmanuel Chabrier and Jules Massenet know. In 1881 he was Kapellmeister at the Breslau Stadttheater.

1883 funded a performance of Franz Liszt compositions van der Stuckens in Weimar, which made him famous overnight. In 1884, he was the successor of Leopold Damrosch as conductor of the New York Arion Society, a men's choir, which he headed until 1895 and with whom he toured through Europe. The accompanying orchestra was under the direction of Max Bendix. At the same time he established himself as Orchestra Conductor: He directed 1885 in New York, a concert of works by American composers, published in 1887 a series of concerts at New York's Chickering Hall and directed at the Paris World Exposition in 1889, the first concert in Europe, in which played exclusively works by American composers were.

In addition, Van taught the Stucken 1887-1895 at the National Conservatory, and was from 1892 to 1895 Temple Emanu musical director of the El, the first Reform synagogue in New York. From 1895 to 1907 he was director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and dean of the Cincinnati College of Music ( 1897-1903 ) and director of the Cincinnati May Festival ( 1906-1912 and 1923-1927 ). He also served from 1901 to 1907 conductor at the Metropolitan Opera.

From 1907 lived Van der Stucken in Germany and worked in Europe. In addition to the Cincinnati May Festival, he visited the United States only occasionally, so the celebrations to mark his 70th birthday, the, Cincinnati and his birthplace of Fredericksburg took place in New York. In 1929, he died after a stroke in Hamburg and was buried in the cemetery Ohlsdorfer. A Monument to the composer by Russ Thayer is located in the Pioneer Garden of Fredericksburg. Since 1991 is also a music festival in his name instead.

Works

  • Te Deum, 1874
  • Ballet Orchestra, 1874
  • Vlasda, opera, 1881
  • Incidental music for William Shakespeare's The Tempest, 1882
  • Symphonic Prologue to Heinrich Heine William Ratcliff, 1882
  • Louisiana, hard march, 1904
  • Pageant
  • Pax Triumphans

Swell

  • Stokowski.org - A Chronological Listing of the Musicians of the Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York
  • American composer
  • Conductor
  • Born in 1858
  • Died in 1929
  • Man
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