Hans Richter (conductor)
Hans Richter ( born April 4, 1843 in Raab (now Győr); † December 5, 1916 in Bayreuth; actually János Richter ) was an Austro- Hungarian conductor and honorary citizen of Bayreuth.
Childhood
Hans Richter, was born on April 4, 1843, the son of Kapellmeister Anton Richter and singer Josefa judge, born Csazenszky, in Raab, western Hungary. His mother already granted him from the age of four piano lessons, so he was admitted to the Vienna court orchestra through this thorough musical education from 1852 as a choir boy. After his father already died early, he went to 1860 in the " Löwenburgsche seminary " in Vienna, a school that voting talented boys for the Viennese court orchestra trained. 1860-1865 he attended the Vienna Conservatory.
Beginning of the relationship with Richard Wagner
As early as 1862 he was bugler at the Theater am Kärntnertor the then Court Opera, and, after a few years of his Kapellmeister CPC as Kapellmeister. Through this recommendation judge came to Richard Wagner, who was looking for a capable musician. In his order he presented as Wagner's assistant, the master of the Meistersinger score ago, a copy of Wagner's original. The same work he performed later with the score of the opera Siegfried. Through his work, judges gained the full confidence of Richard Wagner, so he was allowed to attend as a witness at his wedding with Cosima Wagner.
Career Achievements
From 1868, he was on the recommendation of Richard Wagner choir director of the Munich Opera. In 1870 he conducted the first performance of Lohengrin in Brussels. From 1871 to 1875 Richter was Kapellmeister at the National Theatre of Budapest. From 1875 to 1900 he was Kapellmeister of the Vienna Court Opera 1875-1898 conductor of the Philharmonic concerts in Vienna. From 1880 to 1890 he was conductor of the Concert Society of Friends of Music in Vienna, from 1878 and the second from 1893 first Kapellmeister in Vienna. In 1876 he conducted at the Bayreuth Festival, the first performances of Der Ring des Nibelungen. Judge Richard Wagner accompanied on a subsequent concert tour of England that took Wagner to help pay off the financial deficit of the first festival. This judge was also known in England and got an invitation to a series of concerts. These were so successful that the Universities of Oxford and Manchester awarded him the doctorate.
Richter worked until 1900 in Vienna, where he supported young composers and spread the works of Wagner. Then he accepted an invitation of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, where he became the musical director. From 1904 to 1911 he was chief conductor of the newly formed London Symphony Orchestra. In 1911 he left England to go to Bayreuth to retire. For its musical merits, the city of Bayreuth in 1913 made him an honorary citizen. On December 5, 1916, he died. His tomb is located at the Bayreuth town cemetery. His tablature called Bayreuth residential building from 1743 was demolished in the late 1960s in connection with the construction of the New Town Hall.
Hans Richter has rendered outstanding addition to his Wagner performances and particularly to the dissemination of works by Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms and Edward Elgar. The first performed by him works are the 2nd and 3rd Symphony of Brahms, the 1st ( 2nd version, 1891), third ( 3rd edition 1890), 4th and 8th Symphony of Bruckner, the Enigma Variations and the oratorio the Dream of Gerontius by Elgar and his first symphony, the judge is dedicated. The 6th Symphony by Antonín Dvořák is dedicated judges, but could this work will be premiered in 1880 as planned due to illness of judges.
For the anniversary of his 150th birthday, in 1993, was launched by the Vienna Philharmonic a Hans Richter medal, the first winner was Sir Georg Solti ( 1912-1997 ).
In 1919 ( the 19th district of Vienna ), the Hans Richter alley named after him in Vienna Dobling.