Ludwig Rottenberg
Ludwig Rottenberg ( born October 11, 1864 in Chernivtsi, † May 6, 1932 in Frankfurt am Main ) was an Austrian- German composer and conductor.
Life and work
Rottenberg was born into a German-speaking Jewish family from Czernowitz, the capital of Bukovina, which belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire at that time. He studied music in his hometown, later at the Vienna Conservatory.
During his university studies he conducted an amateur orchestra and worked as an accompanist. At the opera in Brno he got his first firm commitment.
1892 Rottenberg was appointed as successor to Felix Dessoff first Kapellmeister at the Frankfurt Opera. He continued as a result of the recommendations of Johannes Brahms and Hans von Bülow against two prominent competitors, Richard Strauss and Felix Mottl, by.
Until 1926, Rottenberg remained as principal conductor at the Frankfurt Opera. During this time he worked with six directors together, including very intense with Emil Claar, and developed the Frankfurt Opera as one of the leading theaters of its time. Under his leadership, numerous contemporary works were staged, including the world premieres of the operas The distant sound (1912 ), The Blight (1918 ) and The Treasure Hunter (1920 ) by Franz Schreker. Other important performances, partly as German premieres, Hans Pfitzner The poor were Heinrich ( 1897), Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande (1907 ), Richard Strauss' Elektra (1909 ) and other works of Ferruccio Busoni, Leoš Janáček, Bartók and Paul Hindemith.
A private Rottenberg's work was premiered in 1915 at the Frankfurt Opera, the one-act plays 1913, The siblings after a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Rottenberg composed beyond his most popular songs and piano works.
Rottenberg was married to Theodore Adickes, a daughter of the mayor of Frankfurt Franz Adickes. Her daughter Gertrud Rottenberg (1900-1967) married in 1924 the composer Paul Hindemith.
In the last years of his life Rottenberg taught at the Hoch Conservatory. He died on 6 May 1932 in Frankfurt am Main. His grave is located in the main cemetery, his literary estate in the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg.