Leopold Materna

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Leopold Materna (born August 26, 1871 in Graz , † December 1, 1948 in Vienna ) was an Austrian conductor and composer of serious music .

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Leopold Materna was born into a musical family. His aunt Amalie Materna was an opera singer, as was his older sister Hedwig Materna . After studying music, Leopold Materna first held the position of choirmaster at the Philharmonic Society in Maribor. In 1906 he was appointed opera conductor at the theater in Linz.

The music critic Franz Gräflinger described in the Linzer Tages-Post 1911 a rehearsal of Gustav Mahler's 1st symphony , which the composer wanted to conduct himself:

“In the Saturday rehearsal, Kapellmeister Materna conducted first, as Mahler was unable to arrive at the minute due to a train delay from Frankfurt. Towards the end of the third movement, the prominent head appeared. [..] After the usual introduction of the two conductors, Mahler lets the desk lower and swings the baton himself. It's going very well, very well. “I pay you my compliments,” Mahler says to Materna. The latter rehearsed the symphony with professional accuracy. The work was no small matter. Mahler only needed to use the file here and there. "

In the following years Leopold Materna was a sought-after conductor. He conducted the Antwerp premiere of Bruckner's 4th Symphony, conducted a Chopin piano concerto with Leopold Godowsky as soloist in Paris , a concert with Luigi von Kunits with the Wiener Konzertverein and received an invitation to guest conduct in Russia in 1911. The position Leopold Materna gave up in Linz and moved to the Volksoper in Vienna as Kapellmeister . In addition, he has repeatedly led the Vienna Symphony Orchestra as a guest conductor .

From 1925 onwards, Leopold Materna's health deteriorated and he went to Villach for several weeks at a spa . Now he headed the Vienna Evangelical Singing Association.

Compositions

  • Reverie - An der Wiege , for violin and orchestra (1900)
  • Sonata for violin and piano in C minor (1906)
  • Little Romance , for violin and piano (1939)
  • Trio for clarinet, horn and piano (1944)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Graefinger: Gustav Mahler in Linz. In: Linzer Tages-Post of May 21, 1911, pp. 10–11.
personal data
SURNAME Materna, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor and composer of serious music
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1948
Place of death Vienna