Felix Lederer

Felix Lederer (born February 25, 1877 in Prague , † March 26, 1957 in Berlin ) was an Austrian musician and conductor of Czech origin.

Lederer studied at the Prague Conservatory and was there a. a. Student of Antonín Dvořák . He later moved to the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna . In 1897 Lederer got his first engagement as a répétiteur at the City Theater of Breslau . Lederer held this office until 1899 and in the autumn of that year accepted an appointment as second conductor at the municipal theaters in Nuremberg . As such, he also acted as director of the city's opera band until 1903. In 1903 he was brought to the Augsburg city ​​theater as first conductor , where he stayed for two years.

He then went to the Barmen Opera House and from 1905 to 1908 the Barmen City Theater. In 1908 Lederer was engaged at the Bremen City Theater for two years . He then moved to the National Theater in Mannheim , where he was general music director of the opera until 1922. At the same time, he directed the Mannheim Music Association and brought the city concerts to a new bloom. 1922 took Lederer as general music director in Saarbrücken, where he for political reasons after the "return of the Saar" in 1935 by the Ministry of Arts , a professional ban received.

In the spring of 1946, Lederer accepted a position at the University of Music in Berlin. There he worked until 1952 as a full professor of conducting and head of the opera school. In 1952 Lederer gradually resigned all of his offices and devoted himself only to conducting. He continued to appear in public as a successful concert conductor until the end of his life.

literature

• Felix Lederer . In: German Biographical Encyclopedia . Vol. 6, 2nd revised and expanded edition, Munich 2006, p. 303.