Árpád Doppler

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Árpád Doppler, 1912.

Árpád Doppler (born June 5, 1857 in Budapest , † August 13, 1927 in Stuttgart ) was a Hungarian-German composer.

Karl Doppler's son studied at the Royal Conservatory for Music in Stuttgart. From 1880 to 1883 he was a teacher at the Grand Conservatory in New York City , then professor at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Stuttgart. From 1889 he was also choir director and functioning music director at the Royal Court Theater in Stuttgart.

He composed several orchestral works, chamber music pieces for piano, choirs and songs as well as the opera Haligula (1891). His compositional style is at times reminiscent of Edvard Grieg .

His sister Olga Doppler-Alsen was a stage actress. Harry Alsen , also a stage actor, who was married to his brother-in-law.

literature

  • Carl Esser; Paul Wittko; Johannes Joseph Vincenz Cissarz (book design): Die neue Königl. Hof-Theater zu Stuttgart: for consecration and lasting memory. Stuttgart around 1912, pages 40, 89, 95.
  • Nicolas Slonimsky: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. New York 1958, 394, online .

Web links

  • Score of the humoresque for the pianoforte , Opus 11, 1883.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ #Esser 1912 , page 95.
  2. ↑ #Slonimsky 1958 .
personal data
SURNAME Doppler, Árpád
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-German composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1927
Place of death Stuttgart