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Artist
Karl Weigl
12+ albums
Classical20th CenturycomposerString Quartetlesser known yet streamable composers
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Karl Ignaz Weigl (2 February 1881 – 11 August 1949) was an Austrian composer, noted for his string quartets and symphonies. He was born in Vienna, the son of a bank official who was also a keen amateur musician. Educated at the University of Vienna and the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, he went on to study with Alexander Zemlinsky, who was a family friend. Although Weigl never abandoned writing tonal compositions and did not believe in the twelve tone system, Weigl nevertheless became friends and associates of both Webern and Schönberg. In 1903, the three founded the Vereingung Schaffender Tonkünstler which dedicated itself to presenting concerts of important modern works like those of Mahler, Reger, Strauss, Pfitzner, Schoenberg, and Zemlinsky. Mahler, then the director of the Vienna Court Opera, engaged Weigl as his rehearsal conductor. There, he coached such legendary singers as Leo Slezak, Lotte Lehmann and Selma Kurtz. Throughout this period up until the outbreak of WWI, Weigl worked diligently composing works in many genres. When the Nazis occupied Austria in 1938, Weigl emigrated to America, together with his second wife, musician and composer Vally Weigl (nee Pick) and his son. There, he obtained a number of increasingly important teaching posts: at the Hartt School of Music, at Brooklyn College, at the Boston Conservatory and, from 1948 on, at the Philadelphia Academy of Music. He died in New York after a prolonged battle with bone marrow cancer.
top songs
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Pictures and Tales Suite: IV. Sleep, Baby, Sleep
1,1102Symphony No. 4 in F Minor: III. Adagio
693Three Intermezzi for Strings: Revelation. Andante moderato
684Piano Concerto in F Minor, Op. 21: II. Andante sostenuto
655Symphony No. 5, "Apocalyptic": I. Evocation (Moderato - Allegro Moderato)
406Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 5: I. Leicht bewegt
377Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 5: IV. Lebhaft
318Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 5: II. Sehr lebhaft
2796 Fantasies: No. 1. Spring Evening
2710Symphony No. 5, "Apocalyptic": II. the Dance Around the Golden Calf (Allegro Moderato)
25albums
Weigl: Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 5 & Pictures and Tales Suite
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Karl Weigl: Orchestral Works
Weigl: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6
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Karl Weigl: Revelation (from: Three Intermezzi for Strings)
Weigl: Isle of the Dead
Weigl: Symphony No. 5 / Phantastisches Intermezzo
Weigl: Symphony No. 6 / Old Vienna
Weigl: Symphony No. 3 in B-Flat Major & Symphonic Prelude to a Tragedy
Weigl: Cello Concerto, Cello Sonata & Other Works
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Weigl: String Quartets
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Karl Weigl: Selected Songs
Weigl: Chamber Music