Frank Van der Stucken
Frank Valentine Van der Stucken (born October 15, 1858 in Fredericksburg (Texas) , † August 16, 1929 in Hamburg ) was an American conductor and composer.
Life
Van der Stucken was the son of Belgian emigrants from Antwerp. His father served as captain of the First Texas Cavalry in the American Civil War and became Chief Justice of Gillespie County in 1864 . In 1865 the family returned to Antwerp.
Here Van der Stucken studied violin with Émile Wambach and composition with Peter Benoit between 1866 and 1876 . At the age of sixteen he composed a Te Deum that was performed in Antwerp's Sint-Jacob Church and an orchestral ballet that was performed at the Royal Theater.
In 1876 he attended the Bayreuth Festival and went to Leipzig, where he studied with Carl Reinecke , Victor Langer and Edvard Grieg until 1878 . While traveling through Europe he learned a. a. know the composers Giuseppe Verdi , Emmanuel Chabrier and Jules Massenet . In 1881 he became Kapellmeister at the Breslau City Theater.
In 1883, Franz Liszt financed a performance of Van der Stucken's compositions in Weimar, which suddenly made him famous. In 1884 he succeeded Leopold Damrosch as director of the New York Arion Society , a male choir which he directed until 1895 and with which he undertook concert tours through Europe. The associated orchestra was under the direction of Max Bendix . At the same time, he established himself as an orchestral conductor: in 1885 he conducted a concert with works by American composers in New York, gave a series of concerts in New York's Chickering Hall in 1887, and conducted the first concert in Europe at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889 , at which exclusively works by American composers were played were.
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In addition, Van taught the Stucken 1887-1895 at the National Conservatory and was from 1892 to 1895 musical director of Temple Emanu El , the first New Yorker reform - synagogue . From 1895 to 1907 he was director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra , also dean of the Cincinnati College of Music (from 1897 to 1903) and director of the Cincinnati May Festival (from 1906 to 1912 and from 1923 to 1927). He was also a conductor at the Metropolitan Opera from 1901 to 1907 . In 1898 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
From 1907 Van der Stucken lived in Germany and worked in Europe. In addition to the Cincinnati May Festivals, he only visited the USA occasionally, for example for the celebrations for his 70th birthday, which took place in New York, Cincinnati and his birthplace Fredericksburg. In 1929 he died after a stroke in Hamburg and was buried in the area of the family grave in the Ohlsdorf cemetery at grid square J 14 (north of Chapel 4).
A memorial to the composer by Russ Thayer is located in Fredericksburg's Pioneer Garden . A music festival has been held here in his name since 1991.
Works
- Te Deum , 1874
- Orchestral Ballet , 1874
- Vlasda , Opera, 1881
- Incidental music to William Shakespeare's The Tempest , 1882
- Symphonic prologue to Heinrich Heine's William Ratcliff , 1882
- Louisiana , Festival March, 1904
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- Pax Triumphans
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- The Handbook of Texas Online - Van der Stucken, Frank Valentine
- Classical Composers - Frank van der Stucken
- Stokowski.org - A Chronological Listing of the Musicians of the Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York
Individual evidence
- ↑ Members: Frank V. Van der Stucken. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Celebrity Graves
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Van der Stucken, Frank |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Van der Stucken, Frank Valentine (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fredericksburg (Texas) |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1929 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |