Hans Swarowsky

Hans Swarovsky ( born September 16, 1899 in Budapest, † September 10, 1975 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian conductor and from 1946 Professor of Conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Life

Swarovsky, son of a Viennese industrialist, had initially studied at the Vienna University of Art History and Philosophy. From 1920 he took with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern then at lessons in music theory and conducting. After working as a coach he worked as a conductor at the Vienna Volksoper and then at the Stuttgart Opera House. Subsequently, he was principal conductor and opera director at the Reuss Theater in Gera, before he was obliged in 1934 as Kapellmeister at the Hamburg State Opera, 1935 to the Berlin State Opera. After an alleged prohibition 1936 Swarovsky worked from 1937 to 1940 at the Zurich Opera House, before he returned to the National Socialist German Reich. At the invitation of Richard Strauss and Clemens Krauss Swarovsky worked on the libretto of the opera Capriccio with ( the German version of the text of Ronsard sonnet No Andres, the so loht my heart comes from him). In addition, he contributed numerous older opera texts into German.

From 1940 to 1944 he worked as a dramaturge with addition at the Salzburg Festival. From 1944 until his last concert on 9 January 1945, he was in occupied Poland, chief conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the General Government in Kraków, where he led, inter alia, the premiere of Pfitzner's composition Krakow greeting that was dedicated to Hans Frank.

After the end of World War II was Swarovsky, who was at that time in Stuttgart, in the short term on the " gray list " of the U.S. military government. From 1946 to 1947 he was chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, from 1947 to 1950 director of the Graz Opera. As a result, he devoted himself to his teaching. Many of the most famous conductors of the last decades come from his school, such as Claudio Abbado, Miltiades Caridis, Paul Angerer, Gabriel Chmura, Yoram David, Jacques Delacote, Erwin Ortner, Mariss Jansons, Adam and Iván Fischer, Christoph Haas, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Augustin Kubizek, Zubin Mehta, Peter Schneider, Miguel Gómez Martínez, Manfred Huss, Theodor Guschlbauer, Hans Zanotelli, Heinrich Schiff, Karl Sollak, Mario Venzago and Bruno Weil.

A student Swarowsky, Alfred Scholz, has released numerous recordings as a producer with a Süddeutsche Philharmonie he said orchestra conductors under various pseudonyms, often including Hans Swarovsky. Probably one of these recordings was hardly actually conducted by Swarovsky.

Essays and lectures Swarowsky are, thanks to Manfred Huss, summarized in the collection preserving the shape until today a bible for questions about interpretation and performance practice.

His grave is located in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 32 C, paragraph 40 ).

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