Ludwig Rottenberg

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Ludwig Rottenberg

Ludwig Rottenberg (born October 11, 1864 in Czernowitz ; † May 6, 1932 in Frankfurt am Main ) was an Austro-German composer and conductor .

life and work

Rottenberg came from a German-speaking Jewish family from Czernowitz , the capital of Bukowina , which at that time belonged to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . He studied music in his hometown, later in the Conservatory in Vienna .

During his student days he conducted an amateur orchestra and worked as a song accompanist. He got his first permanent engagement at the Opera in Brno .

In 1892 Rottenberg was appointed to succeed Felix Dessoff as first conductor at the Frankfurt Opera . Based on the recommendations of Johannes Brahms and Hans von Bülow, he prevailed against two prominent competitors, Richard Strauss and Felix Mottl .

Until 1926, Rottenberg was the first conductor at the Frankfurt Opera. During this time he worked with six artistic directors , including very intensively with Emil Claar , and developed the Frankfurt Opera into one of the leading theaters of its time. Numerous contemporary works have been staged under his direction, including the world premieres of the operas Der ferne Klang (1912), Die Gezeichen (1918) and Der Schatzgräber (1920) by Franz Schreker . Other important performances, some as German premieres, were Hans Pfitzner's Der arme Heinrich (1897), Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande (1907), Richard Strauss ' Elektra (1909) and other works by Ferruccio Busoni , Leoš Janáček , Béla Bartók and Paul Hindemith .

Rottenberg's own work was also premiered at the Frankfurt Opera in 1915, the one-act play Die Geschwister, based on a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . Rottenberg also composed mainly songs and piano works.

Rottenberg was married to Theodore Adickes , a daughter of Frankfurt's Lord Mayor Franz Adickes . The couple had two daughters: Gabriele (1898–1987) married the doctor and radio pioneer Hans Flesch (1896–1945, missing ) in 1920 , Gertrud Rottenberg (1900–1967) married the composer Paul Hindemith in 1924 .

In the last years of his life Rottenberg taught at the Hoch Conservatory . He died on May 6, 1932 in Frankfurt am Main. His grave is in the main cemetery , his literary estate in the Johann Christian Senckenberg university library .

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  1. ↑ Guide to the graves of well-known personalities in Frankfurt cemeteries . Frankfurt am Main 1985, p. 42

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personal data
SURNAME Rottenberg, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1932
Place of death Frankfurt am Main