Max von Oberleithner

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Max von Oberleithner

Max Heinrich Edler von Oberleithner (born July 11, 1868 in Mährisch Schönberg , Moravia ; † December 5, 1935 in Šumperk , Czechoslovakia ) was a lawyer , cloth manufacturer, composer and conductor .

Life

Max was the son of the textile industrialist Karl von Oberleithner and married to Vilma. From 1890 to 1895 he was on the recommendation of Felix Mottl's private student with Anton Bruckner . In 1892 he graduated as Dr. jur. at the University of Vienna and in the same year Anton Bruckner dedicated Psalm 150 to him. In 1895 he became theater conductor in Teplice , but a year later he moved to Düsseldorf , where he also worked as a theater conductor for a year. In 1897 he returned to Vienna . Since he was financially independent as a manufacturer, he was able to concentrate on classical music.

In 1912, in view of Maria Jeritza's engagement at the Vienna Court Opera, he set Pierre Louÿs' novel “Aphrodite” to music and four years later he created his most successful opera “The Iron Savior”.

Oberleitner supervised the printing of Bruckner's eighth symphony in 1892 and made some changes together with Joseph Schalk . However, the often unauthorized adaptations of Anton Bruckner's works by his students, such as the aforementioned Joseph Schalk, his brother Franz and Ferdinand Löwe , are viewed extremely critically.

Operas

  • 1899: Redeemed
  • 1901: Ghitana
  • 1908: Abbé Mouret
  • 1912: Aphrodite
  • 1914: La Vallière
  • 1916: The Iron Savior (World premiere: Vienna Volksoper, January 20, 1917)
  • 1919: Cecilia
  • 1920: The Heidentor

literature

  • Andraschke, Peter : Max von Oberleithner, a Bruckner student from Mährisch Schönberg. In: The music of the Germans in the east and their interaction with the neighbors. Baltic Sea Region - Silesia - Bohemia / Moravia - Danube Region. Eds. Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller and Helmut Loos, German Music in the East, Vol. 6, Gudrun Schröder Verlag, Bonn, 1994, pp. 445-465. ISBN 3-926196-25-4
  • Doebel, Wolfgang : Bruckner symphonies in arrangements, the concepts of the Bruckner students and their reception up to Robert Haas. Vol. 24, Tutzing 2001. ISBN 3-7952-1034-8
  • Oberleithner, Max von: My memories of Anton Bruckner. Regensburg, 1933.
  • Sudetendeutsches Musikinstitut (Hrsg.): Lexicon for German music culture. Bohemia. Moravia. Sudetenschlesien, Vol. 2, Munich, 2000, pp. 1041-1043. ISBN 3-7844-2799-5
  • C. Rapf:  Oberleithner Max von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 188.

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Oberleithner, Max von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oberleithner, Max Heinrich Edler von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, cloth manufacturer, composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Šumperk
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1935
Place of death Šumperk