Emil Paur
Emil Paur (born August 29, 1855 in Chernivtsi , † June 7, 1932 in Frýdek-Místek ) was an Austrian conductor and composer .
Life
Emil Paur, who was an excellent violinist and pianist, studied conducting at the Vienna Conservatory at the same time as Arthur Nikisch and Felix Mottl . He then became chief conductor of the Kassel State Theater and the Königsberg City Theater . There he conducted the German premiere of “Carmen” on October 26, 1879, directed by Max Staegemann ; with her began the worldwide triumph of Bizet's opera .
After a few years at the National Theater in Mannheim , he went to the New Theater in Leipzig in 1889 as Nikisch's successor . In 1893 he became chief conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra , from which he separated after five seasons due to increasing disagreements. From 1898 to 1902 he directed the New York Philharmonic . In 1899, he succeeded Antonín Dvořák as director of the New York National Conservatory of Music of America . In 1901/02 he made a tour of the USA with his own Paur Symphony Orchestra .
After a short stay in Europe, Paur led the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as the successor to Victor Herbert . After his return to Germany in 1910, he worked as an opera conductor in Berlin .
In addition to chamber music works and a piano concerto, Paur composed a. a. the symphony in nature . He was married to the pianist Marie Bürger . His son Kurt Paur was also known as a pianist.
literature
- U. Harten: Paur Emil. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 356.
Web links
- Emil Paur's sound carrier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Boston Symphony Orchestra - Principal Musicians
- New York Philharmonic - Emil Paur
- Edition Romana Hamburg - Chernivtsi
Ureli Corelli Hill (1842–1847) | Theodore Eisfeld (1848–1855) | Carl Bergmann (1855–1876) | Leopold Damrosch (1876–1877) | Theodore Thomas (1877-1891) | Anton Seidl (1891–1898) | Emil Paur (1898–1902) | Walter Damrosch (1902–1903) | Vasily Ilyich Safonov (1906–1909) | Gustav Mahler (1909–1911) | Josef Stránský (1911–1923) | Ignatz Waghalter (1924–1925) | Willem Mengelberg (1924–1928) | Arturo Toscanini (1928–1936) | John Barbirolli (1936–1941) | Artur Rodziński (1943–1947) | Bruno Walter (1947–1949) | Leopold Stokowski (1949–1950) | Dimitri Mitropoulos (1950–1958) | Leonard Bernstein (1958–1969) | George Szell (1969–1970) | Pierre Boulez (1971–1977) | Zubin Mehta (1978-1991) | Kurt Masur (1991-2002) | Lorin Maazel (2002-2008) | Alan Gilbert (2009-2017) | Jaap van Zweden (since 2018)
George Henschel (1881–1884) | Wilhelm Gericke (1884–1889) | Arthur Nikisch (1889-1893) | Emil Paur (1893–1898) | Wilhelm Gericke (1898–1906) | Karl Muck (1906–1908) | Max Fiedler (1908–1912) | Karl Muck (1912–1918) | Henri Rabaud (1918–1919) | Pierre Monteux (1919–1924) | Sergei Alexandrowitsch Kusewizki (1924–1949) | Charles Münch (1949–1962) | Erich Leinsdorf (1962–1969) | William Steinberg (1969–1972) | Seiji Ozawa (1973-2002) | James Levine (2004-2011) | Andris Nelsons (since 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paur, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chernivtsi |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1932 |
| Place of death | Frýdek-Místek |