Fritz Steinbach
Fritz Steinbach ( born June 17, 1855 in Green field; † August 13, 1916 in Munich) was a German conductor and composer.
Life
Fritz Steinbach came from a family of musicians Baden. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and in Vienna with Martin Gustav Nottebohm (theory and counterpoint) and Anton Door ( piano). He was from 1874 to 1878 Fellow of the Frankfurt Mozart Foundation. After he first worked as a composer, he began his career in 1879 as a conductor in Mainz as second Kapellmeister. He then worked as a teacher of composition and counterpoint at Raffschen Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main.
1886 took over Fritz Steinbach for 17 years of Richard Strauss, the court orchestra in Meiningen as Kapellmeister, the previously formed at an elite orchestra Hans von Bülow 1881-1885. In Meiningen Fritz Steinbach worked closely with Johannes Brahms, who until 1896 was often a guest at the 1881 Duke Georg II and the court orchestra. Steinbach evolved as the most famous Brahms conductor, who did the works of Brahms by far perform the most. He built so that the good position in the Brahms concerto world further and established a special, which continues today Brahms care in the city of Meiningen.
Steinbach targeted profiling of the residence town of Meiningen to a Brahms city along the lines of Bayreuth, which included the construction of a Brahms concert hall with adjoining conservatory. He initiated for this purpose in 1897, 1899 and 1903, three successful, tailored to the works of Brahms country music festivals of Saxe- Meiningen, which has attracted plenty of Brahms connoisseurs and great attention has been given in the European music world. 1897 Johannes Brahms himself was present as guest of honor. Under the leadership of Fritz Steinbach, the orchestra went on tour again in 1897 and gave 297 performances in 85 cities in Switzerland, Holland, Denmark, England and Bohemia. At the establishment of the first German monument to Brahms, built in 1899 by the sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand in Meiningen, Steinbach was instrumental.
After the failure of his plans for a conservatory in Meiningen Fritz Steinbach joined early 1903 Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne and became the director of the Cologne Conservatory. He taught there until July 1914 composition and orchestral conducting. Among his pupils were, among others, Hans Knappertsbusch, Adolf Busch and Franz Mittler. Fritz Steinbach then retired to Munich, where he died in 1916 of a heart attack.
Works
- Opus 7, Septet in A major for oboe, clarinet, horn, violin, viola, cello and piano, published by Schott's Söhne, Mainz, 1882.