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... director of the education program of the Vienna Urania. Lafite and Schenker Schenker had dealings with Lafite in the early 1900s regarding performance of compositions of his by the Singakademie and Damenchorverein. Schenker came into acrimonious conflict ...
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... Austrian leading industrialist, brother of Heinrich Mendel and of Schenker’s pupil and patron Mrs. Sofie Deutsch. Fritz Mendl bore the title of Kammerrat (Chamber Counsellor). Seventh and second children respectively of Samuel Mendl and Babette (née ...
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... editing. Of J. S. Bach's works, Röntgen edited for UE the Little Preludes and Fugues, the Two- and Three-part Inventions, French Suites, English Suites, Partitas, Italian Concerto, D-minor Concerto, Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue, and Well-tempered Clavier (in ...
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... , and his Second String Quartet, Op.10 (December 1908). Rosé and Schenker Rosé's and his quartet's commitment to the German/Austrian Classical repertory and its personal association with Brahms disposed Schenker favorably to them in the 1890s (see early ...
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... , where he taught music theory and composition, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1943. His output as a composer was very large, and his music was praised by Richard Strauss, Schoenberg, Furtwängler, Casals, and Bruno Walter. His wife was Vally (Valerie) Weigl ...
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... , including works by J. S. Bach, Brahms, and Beethoven, notably the autograph manuscript of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E major, Op. 109. Schenker worked on this autograph at the Wittgenstein house on November 12 and 19, 1912 when preparing his Die letzten ...
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... Bagatellen for string quartet (1911, 1913) and the Drei kleine Stücke for cello and piano (1913) is continued into the more serene but no less concentrated expressive world of Webern’s twelve-tone compositions, culminating in the Variations for Orchestra, Op ...
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... became the second largest and most important privately owned bank in Vienna after the Rothschild Bank. Following the death of Philipp, David Eduard's son Alfons became the sole proprietor, and the company continued to thrive until the late 1930s. Alfons ...
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... Hungarian composer. Career Summary Goldmark studied violin at the Vienna Conservatory in the 1840s, and embarked upon a career in Vienna as a professional violinist working in theater orchestras. Largely self-taught, he began to compose c. 1860, and ...
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... -1920s. Felix-Eberhard von Cube also grew up in Munich, and studied for a time with Vrieslander before going to Vienna to work directly under Schenker's supervision. Vrieslander was apparently trying to engineer an appointment for Schenker in Munich in ...