Emil Seling

Emil Seling (born November 25, 1868 in Vienna , † June 4, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German conductor, music teacher and composer.

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After graduating from the Schottengymnasium and attending an organ school (1885), he studied from 1887 at the University of Vienna as a listener with Max Dietz, Eduard Hanslick and Anton Bruckner . After passing the state examination (for piano, organ and voice), he was a singing teacher in Vienna from 1892. From 1898 he worked as Kapellmeister in Teplitz, Prague, Elberfeld, Karlsbad, Troppau, Trieste and Amsterdam. In 1900 he continued his studies as a listener with Max von Schillings and Ludwig Thuille in Munich. 1905–1908 he stayed again in Vienna as Kapellmeister at the Carltheater . From 1909 he worked as a singing and composition teacher in Berlin, at the same time as conductor of the orchestra of the Royal Technical University and, from 1910, as deputy conductor of the Philharmonic Choir and the teachers' choir. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. From 1927 to 1935 he taught as a professor at the Musikhochschule in Berlin.

As a composer he created the operas Fatum (1901/02) and Medea (handwriting), as well as orchestral and choral works as well as piano and violin pieces.

His final resting place is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

literature

• Friedrich Jansa: German sound artists and musicians in words and pictures, 2nd A. Leipzig 1911 (316).
• Erich Hermann Müller: German Musicians Lexicon, Dresden 1929 (538).
• Paul Frank / Wilhelm Altmann : Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstlerlexikon, 12.A., Leipzig 1926. ISBN 3-7959-0083-2 , (498).
• Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950, Vol. 12, Vienna 2005, p. 156.

Web links

• Literature by and about Emil Seling in the catalog of the German National Library