Leopold Kuhn

Leopold Kuhn ( August 16, 1861 in Vienna - January 16, 1902 near Vienna) was an Austrian theater director , conductor and composer .

Life

During the summer months from 1890 to 1900, Kuhn directed the spa theater in Bad Hall . As Kapellmeister he was at the Theater an der Wien in 1895/96 and at the Thaliatheater in Berlin in 1896/97 . In the fall of 1898 he became director of the Chernivtsi City Theater . An incurable illness soon forced the management to give up. He was admitted to a mental hospital and died at the age of 40.

Kuhn, who also composed, had among other things written the music for the farce The poor girl .

literature

Cooperative of German Stage Members (ed.), Neuer Theater-Almanach 1903 , Druck- und Commissions-Verlag by FA Günther & Sohn, Berlin, 1903, page 144 ( digitized ).

Individual evidence

↑ Helmut Bachmaier, Stefan Henze (eds.): Karl Valentin - Couplets . All works in eight volumes. tape 2 . Piper, 1994, ISBN 3-492-03402-0 , pp. 245 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

personal data
SURNAME	Kuhn, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian theater director, conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 16, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	January 16, 1902
Place of death	Vienna

[Margarethe-1] Helmut Bachmaier, Stefan Henze (eds.): Karl Valentin - Couplets . All works in eight volumes. tape 2 . Piper, 1994, ISBN 3-492-03402-0 , pp. 245 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).