Bernard Ullman

Bernard Ullman (* 1817 in Pest , Empire of Austria ; † 1885 in Paris ) was a from Hungary originating Musikimpresario , predominantly in the United States worked.

Life

The Hungarian journalist and music impresario Ullman came to the USA in 1846, where he presented the Parisian pianist Henri Herz to the audience . He managed concert tours of the Italian violinist Camillo Sivori (1847–48), the singer Henriette Sontag (1853–54), the pianist Sigismund Thalberg (1856–58) and the violinist Henri Vieuxtemps (1857–58). In 1858 he organized concerts with the French conductor Alfred Musard and his monster orchestra, made up of 120 musicians .

From 1856 he ran his own opera company, which soon merged with the Maurice Strakosch company to form The Ullman-Strakosch Opera Company and worked with the New York Academy of Music . He engaged musicians such as the Italian soprano Erminia Frezzolini , the tenor Domenico Labocetta and the baritone Edouard Gassier . The company organized concert tours for the conductor Karl Anschütz, the soprano Marietta Piccolomini and the bassist Karl Formes .

After his separation from Strakosch in Philadelphia, Ullman tried unsuccessfully to establish his own opera company in New York and finally returned to Europe in 1861, where he a. a. acted as manager of Carlotta Patti .

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• Sabine Henze-Döhring (Ed.): Giacomi Meyerbeer: Briefwechsel und Tagebücher , Volume 8, 1860–64; Walter de Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 9783110192315 , p. 742
• Henry Charles Lahee: Grand Opera in America , new edition Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 9781417906642 , p. 131 ff.
• Bethany S. Goldberg: Bernard Ullman and the Business of Orchestras in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ney York . In John Spitzer: American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century , University of Chicago Press, 2012, ISBN 9780226769769 , pp. 225–247