Rudolf Dellinger
Rudolf Dellinger (born July 8, 1857 in Graslitz , West Bohemia, † September 24, 1910 in Dresden ) was a composer and conductor .
Life
As the son of a woodwind instrument maker, he received lessons at the music school in Graslitz from 1865 to 1874. From 1874 to 1879 he studied at the Prague Conservatory . Here he received, among other things, piano lessons from Julius Pisarowitz and worked as a conservator at the orchestra of the German Theater in Prague.
After completing his musical training, he took up a position as a clarinetist in Brno in 1880 and was then conductor at the theater in Brno. In the following years he worked as Kapellmeister in Passau , Saaz, Eger , Pilsen, Warnsdorf, Chernivtsi, Karlsbad, Prague and Salzburg . In 1883 he went to Hamburg , where he worked at the Carl-Schultze-Theater there . It was here that his first operetta , Don Cesar , was written, which also had its world premiere and 1500 performances in Hamburg. In 1893 Rudolf Dellinger was appointed Kapellmeister at the Residenztheater in Dresden, where he worked until his death. He died in the sanatorium in Dresden in 1910 and was buried in the Johannisfriedhof .
Rudolf Dellinger composed almost exclusively operettas and was considered one of the outstanding composers of this genre of his time.
Works (selection)
- 1885: Don Cesar
- 1886: Lorraine
- 1889: Captain Fracassa
- 1891: Saint Cyr
- 1894: The Chansonette
- 1901: Jadwiga
- 1910: The last Jonas
literature
- Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former Reg.-Bez. Eger ( Cheb ), Volume 1, Männerdorf / ZH 1985, complete production: Druckhaus Bayreuth, Verlagsgesellschaft mmH Bayreuth, ISBN 3 922808 12 3 , page 106, with a portrait photo on page 107
- Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna 1979, ISBN 3 486 49491 0 , page 238
- Otto Schneidereit : Operetta from Abraham to Ziehrer, 1965
- Wilhelm Kosch: German Theater Lexicon (1953–1966)
- Sudeten German Life Pictures 2, 1930
- Sudetendeutsche Zeitung 7, 1967
- Graslitzer Yearbook, 1924
- Riemann: Musiklexikon, 1919
Web links
- Works by and about Rudolf Dellinger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Stage works
Individual evidence
- ↑ death survey . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 3, 1910, p. 104.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dellinger, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kraslice |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 1910 |
| Place of death | Dresden |