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Hans Richter (Hardcover)
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Christopher Fifield's remarkable study explores the personality,
life and work of a conductor who influenced and inspired the
leading composers, singers and instrumentalists of his day. The
Austro-Hungarian Hans Richter (1843-1916) was the first
career-conductor to gain international fame. His first appointment
was to Budapest, and he went on to dominate music-making in Vienna,
Bayreuth, London, Manchester (withthe Halle Orchestra) and other
towns and cities in Britain and Europe between 1865 and 1912.
Richter gave first performances of works by Wagner, Brahms, Elgar,
Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Stanford and Parry and helped to further the
careers of Dvorak, Sibelius, Bartok and Glazunov. Christopher
Fifield's remarkable study explores the personality, life and work
of a conductor who influenced and inspired the leading composers,
singers and instrumentalists of his day. Originally published in
1993, this revised and expanded edition contains extensive new
material in the form of Richter's conducting books. Translated and
reproduced in full, they detail every one of the 4,351 public
performances Richter gave in a professional life spanning 47 years.
Drawing on Richter's own diaries, the book also presents his
correspondence with many contemporary composers (Wagner in
particular) and performers. Fifield's biography of this seminal
figure provides a revealing insight into British and European music
and concert life during the long nineteenth century. CHRISTOPHER
FIFIELD is a conductor, music historian, lecturer and
broadcaster.He is the editor and author of the Letters and Diaries
of Kathleen Ferrier and Max Bruch: His Life and Works, both
published in new editions by The Boydell Press. He has also written
Ibbs & Tillett - The rise andfall of a Musical Empire and The
German Symphony between Beethoven and Brahms.
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