Josef Krips

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Josef Krips (around 1930)

Josef Alois Krips (born April 8, 1902 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † October 13, 1974 in Geneva , Switzerland ) was an Austrian conductor and violinist . He contributed significantly to the revitalization of Viennese musical life in the post-war period .

Life

Krips was the son of a Viennese doctor. At the age of six he sang in the choir of the Carmelite Church in Vienna . He received a humanistic school education and was taught piano and harmony. At the age of 13 he got his first violin. From 1918 to 1921 he was a violinist at the Vienna Volksoper . In 1920/21 he studied music theory with Eusebius Mandyczewski at the Vienna Music Academy , he was also a private student of Felix Weingartner . After initially majoring in the violin , he soon switched to conducting.

From 1921 to 1924 he worked as a répétiteur and Weingartner's assistant, later as choir conductor and Kapellmeister at the Vienna Volksoper. After one year as head of opera at the Stadttheater in Aussig an der Elbe (Bohemia) and first Kapellmeister in Dortmund , he was appointed court conductor at the Badische Hofkapelle Karlsruhe in 1926 and a short time later became Germany's youngest general music director. After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he returned to Vienna as a conductor, where he became resident conductor at the Vienna State Opera . In 1935 he took over a professorship at the Vienna Music Academy.

After the connection of Austria to Germany in 1938 Krips moved to Belgrade , where he spent a year as a guest conductor at the opera worked and at the Philharmonie. In 1939 he went to Vienna, but his father was because of the Jewish origins disbarment and became the Reich Labor Service used. After a brief engagement in Budapest , he secretly worked as a répétiteur and gave private lessons. In 1943, a friend gave him a job in a food company and was therefore not drafted into the Wehrmacht.

After the war, Krips was the only Austrian conductor who was considered unencumbered and was allowed to work again immediately. This is how Krips became one of the most sought-after conductors. Krips conducted at the Volksoper and at the Theater an der Wien . He was the first to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic after the Second World War and conducted the first Salzburg Festival in the post-war period. In 1946 and 1947 he conducted the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic and founded the Vienna Mozart Ensemble, which made guest appearances around the world and was famous for its special singing and playing culture. He directed the Vienna Court Music Band and gave concerts at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna and the Konzerthausgesellschaft . In 1949 he became director of the Kapellmeister school at the Vienna Music Academy.

From 1950 to 1954 Josef Krips was chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra , then, in the same function, for nine years head of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in New York and, from 1963 to 1970, head of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra . From 1954 to 1960 he directed the Cincinnati May Festival . In 1963 he made his debut with Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden , London. In 1966 he became a guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He took up his last position in 1970 when he became guest conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin . From 1970 to 1973 he was artistic advisor and principal conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker . He was the first Austrian conductor to tour the Soviet Union . Among other things, he appeared in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater . Krips' last great success, in early 1974, was a new production of Così fan tutte at the Grand Opéra Paris .

The large number of Krips recordings include, for example, the symphonies by Beethoven with the London Symphony Orchestra, which were recorded in 1960 and appeared on CD in the 1990s. His interpretations of Mozart operas such as Don Giovanni and The Abduction from the Seraglio are also known . With the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra , he recorded a cycle of eight long-playing records of Mozart's late 20 symphonies from 1972 to 1974.

Krips was married three times: in his first marriage (1925) with Maria Heller, b. Rotsch († 1930) from Aussig, in the second (1947) with Maria (nne) ( Mitzi ) Weinlinger, b. Willheim (1897–1969), in third (1969) with Harrietta Procházka (1938–2015). His brother Henry Krips (1912–1987), who took on Australian citizenship, was also a conductor.

Krips lived u. a. in the Herrengasse skyscraper . He died of lung cancer in 1974 in Geneva Cantonal Hospital . He was buried in the 19th district of Vienna ( Döbling ) in the Neustift cemetery in an honorary grave (group 16, row 4, number 30). In 1988 the Kripsgasse in the 23rd district of Vienna ( Liesing ) was named after him.

Cenotaph in the Neustift Cemetery (2009)
Kripsgasse in Vienna-Liesing (2015)

Fonts (selection)

  • You can't make music without love ... memories . Edited and documented by Harrietta Krips. Böhlau, Vienna (inter alia) 1994, ISBN 3-205-98158-8 . (French edition, 1999: ISBN 2-88011-157-9 ).

Awards, honors and prizes

Literature, audio

Web links

Commons : Josef Krips  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Legendary Mozart Ensemble - Departure after the end of the war. Accessed December 12, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ F (ritz) W (alden) : He built up Vienna's musical life after 45: conductor Joseph Krips died . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 15, 1974, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ Krips: You can't make music without love , passim .
  4. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Krips Josef, Prof. In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on November 6, 2013.
  5. ^ Inscription Deutschordenshof, Singerstraße: Josef Krips 1953 (accessed June 12, 2014)
  6. ^ Vienna 1962: reports from April 1962 (…) April 27, 1962: Presentation of the ring of honor to Prof. Krips . In: wien.gv.at , accessed on November 8, 2010.
  7. ↑ Professor Josef Krips became (...) . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 30, 1964, p. 8 , column 2, below ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  8. ↑ gustav-mahler.org: The golden Mahler Medal (accessed October 30, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Krips, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krips, Josef Alois (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor and violinist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1974
Place of death Geneva , Switzerland