Karl Stiegler

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Karl Stiegler (born January 27, 1876 in Vienna ; † June 5, 1932 there ) was an Austrian horn player and professor at a music college.

Life

Karl Stiegler, who started playing the horn at an early age, had his own horn quintet at the age of 15 and studied with Josef Schantl . After completing his studies, he was solo horn player in the Wiesbaden court theater from 1896 to 1899 . Gustav Mahler brought him back to Vienna in 1899, where he was principal horn at the Vienna State Opera until 1906 and principal horn with the Vienna Philharmonic from 1906 to 1932 . The importance of Stiegler is clear from the fact that Gustav Mahler has repeatedly performed his 5th Symphony (the premiere horn was Max Hess in Cologne), in which the solo horn plays a dominant role in the middle movement (also referred to as "corno obligato" in the voice), to performances outside Vienna. Incidentally, he was one of the best paid soloists of his time. For example, he received two thousand gold marks at the Basel Mozart Festival in 1922 for Mozart's Second Horn Concerto KV 417. He was also the soloist in the premieres of Richard Strauss's operas Die Frau ohne Schatten and Ariadne auf Naxos . Numerous composers of the Vienna Circle wrote solo pieces with piano or chamber music especially for him. Stiegler himself was “tireless as an arranger, composer and theorist” with regard to his instrument.

Stiegler cultivated friendships with numerous music greats of his time, such as Gustav Mahler, Hans Richter , Bruno Walter , Arnold Schönberg , Richard Strauss, Franz Schmidt and Max Reger .

Stiegler had a significant influence as a horn teacher. In 1902 he succeeded Schantl as chief instructor of the imperial hunting music in Vienna and was professor at the State Academy for Music and Art in Vienna from 1917 to 1932 . One of his students was his nephew Gottfried von Freiberg . Further students were Hans Berger , Otto Nitsch , Leopold Kainz , Josef Veleba and Emil Kreuziger . Fritz Mischlinger and Holger Fransman were among the last graduates of Stiegler.

A few days before his death, Stiegler fell ill with a leg disease, a painful lump in the left hollow of the knee, for which he gave his consent to the operation at the Eiselsberg Clinic and which led to the amputation of the leg by the surgeon Wolfgang Denk , which caused a ( fatal ) embolism .

Stiegler, unmarried, was a collector of all kinds of instruments and every kind of horn music. He also left numerous works for horn and horn ensemble, with a focus on preserving hunting horn music. Stiegler was an advocate of the Viennese F-Horn , to which he made a significant contribution.

His brothers were also well-known musicians: Adolf Stiegler played the trombone , Hans Stiegler the trumpet . Both were members of the Vienna Philharmonic . The three Stiegler brothers took part in the hunting music on the occasion of the Dreikaisertreffen in Mürzzuschlag .

Recordings

  • Early horn quartets from before 1910
  • Symphonies (No. 5, 6, 8) from 1928 under Franz Schalk (first recordings of these works)
  • Scherzo from the 4th Symphony by Anton Bruckner under Clemens Krauss.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Stiegler , in: Allgäuer Waldhornbläser play the Hubertus Mass by Stiegler, director: Ulrich Köbl, booklet of CD FCD 368 304, p. 2
  2. ^ Karl Stiegler , in: Allgäuer Waldhornbläser play the Hubertus Mass by Stiegler, director: Ulrich Köbl, booklet of CD FCD 368 304, p. 2
  3. ↑ Death of the famous horn player Stiegler. Died during an amputation. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 24328/1932, June 6, 1932, p. 5, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  4. ↑ The most important horn player of our time: Professor Karl Stiegler has died. Succumb to a heartbeat after a leg amputation. In:  Wiener Sonntags-Zeitung / Wiener Sonn- und Mondags-Zeitung , June 6, 1932, p. 3, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wsz.
personal data
SURNAME Stiegler, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian horn player
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1932
Place of death Vienna