Julius Bittner
Julius Bittner ( born April 9, 1874 in Vienna, † January 9, 1939 ) was an Austrian composer.
Life
The son of a judge took first and even the legal career. By 1920, Bittner was as a judge in Wolkersdorf in the wine district in Lower Austria operates 1920-22 as a civil servant in the Ministry of Justice. In addition, Julius Bittner became one of the best known and most frequently performed Austrian opera composer of the first half of the 20th century, but came after the Second World War as a typical representative of the late romantic opera in the tradition of Richard Wagner gradually forgotten. Many of his operas treat Austro- Alpine topics and mostly based on self-written librettos. Julius Bittner ( who received by critics to anything deklassierenden nickname " Anzengruber of the Opera" ) may be his better-known contemporaries Wilhelm Kienzl equivalent of musical meaning entirely.
Bittner was married to the contralto Emilie Werner. He has received numerous awards and honors In 1925 he became a member of the German Academy of Arts in Berlin. 1936 put it, although pronationalsozialistisch occurring, the kingdom Sender Berlin mistakenly on a blacklist of cultural workers who were no longer employed in Nazi Germany, but was again freed from this flaw.
1964 Bittner's estate was acquired by the Vienna City Library, it includes almost all the works of the composer in the autograph sketches, text books, scores and piano reductions.
He is buried in a grave of honor in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 32 C, number 15).
Works
Operas ( selection):
In addition, Julius Bittner composed inter alia Incidental music to Shakespeare's dramas, as well as folk plays of Nestroy and Raimund, chamber works (including two string quartets ) and songs, " Dances of Austria ," and a " Great Mass ".