Felix Weingartner

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(Paul) Felix (von) Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg[1] (June 2, 1863 – May 7, 1942) was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist. Weingartner was born in Zara, Dalmatia, today's Zadar, Croatia, to Austrian parents, and the family moved to Graz in 1868. His father died that same year. He studied with Wilhelm Mayer (who used the pseudonum of W. A. Rémy and also taught Ferruccio Busoni) and in 1881 went to Leipzig to study philosophy, but soon devoted himself entirely to music, entering the Conservatory in 1883 and also studying under Franz Liszt in Weimar: he was among Liszt's later pupils. Liszt helped produce Weingartner's opera Sakuntala for its world premiere in 1884 with the Weimar orchestra. According to the Liszt biographer Alan Walker, the Weimar orchestra of the 1880s was far from its peak of a few decades earlier—and the opera performance ended with orchestra going one way and chorus another. Walker sources this to Weingartner's autobiography, published in Zürich and Leipzig in 1928-1929. The same year, 1884, he became the director of the Königsberg Opera. From 1885-1887 he was Kapellmeister in Danzig, then until 1889 in Hamburg, and until 1891 in Mannheim. From 1891 he was Kapellmeister of the Royal Opera and conductor of symphony concerts in Berlin; he resigned from the Opera, though continuing to conduct the Symphony concerts, and settled in Munich, where he incurred the enmity of Rudolf Louis and Ludwig Thuille. In 1902, at the Festival of Mainz, Weingartner c

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Beethoven's Complete Symphonies 1927-1938 the First Recordings

Weingartner: Brahms - Complete Symphonies

Weingartner, F.: Symphonic Music, Vol. 6 - Fruhling / Symphony No. 6

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The Roots Of Alicia Keys

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Weingartner: Symphony No. 7

Weingartner: String Quartets, Vol. 3 - Nos. 2 and 4

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Weingartner, F.: String Quartets, Vol. 1 - Nos. 1 and 3

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Weingartner: Symphonic Works, Vol. 1

Weingartner: Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 "Eroica", Leonore Oveture No. 3

Weingartner: Symphony No. 2, Op. 29 & Das Gefilde der Seligen, Op. 21

Weingartner, F.: Symphonic Music, Vol. 6 - Frühling / Symphony No. 6

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Weingartner dirigiert Beethoven

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