Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Preface to the New Edition
- Chronology
- Chapter 1 1843–1865: Childhood and Years of Study
- Chapter 2 1866–1867: Tribschen
- Chapter 3 1868–1869: Munich
- Chapter 4 1870–1871: Brussels; Tribschen
- Chapter 5 1871–1874: Budapest
- Chapter 6 1874–1875: Budapest and Bayreuth
- Chapter 7 1875: Vienna
- Chapter 8 1876: Bayreuth
- Chapter 9 1877: London
- Chapter 10 1878–1879: Vienna
- Chapter 11 1879–1880: Friends and Enemies
- Chapter 12 1880–1881: London and Vienna
- Chapter 13 1881–1882: Richter and d'Albert
- Chapter 14 1882: Richter and d'Albert
- Chapter 15 1882–1883: The Master's Death
- Chapter 16 1884: More Opera in London
- Chapter 17 1885–1886: Vienna, London and Birmingham
- Chapter 18 1887–1888 Return to Bayreuth
- Chapter 19 1889–1900: Vienna
- Chapter 20 1897–1900: Richter and Mahler
- Chapter 21 1889–1890: England
- Chapter 22 1891–1895: England
- Chapter 23 1895–1900: England
- Chapter 24 1890–1899: Bayreuth
- Chapter 25 1894–1899: Richter's Diary
- Chapter 26 1899–1900: Hallé Orchestra
- Chapter 27 1900–1902: England
- Chapter 28 1903–1904: England
- Chapter 29 1904–1906: England
- Chapter 30 1906–1908: England
- Chapter 31 1908–1909: England
- Chapter 32 1909–1911: England
- Chapter 33 1911–1914: Retirement
- Chapter 34 1914–1916: The Last Years
- Chapter 35 Finale
- HANS RICHTER'S CONDUCTING BOOKS
- Appendix 1 Works conducted by Hans Richter
- Appendix 2 Cities and towns where Richter conducted
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 19 - 1889–1900: Vienna
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 April 2017
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Preface to the New Edition
- Chronology
- Chapter 1 1843–1865: Childhood and Years of Study
- Chapter 2 1866–1867: Tribschen
- Chapter 3 1868–1869: Munich
- Chapter 4 1870–1871: Brussels; Tribschen
- Chapter 5 1871–1874: Budapest
- Chapter 6 1874–1875: Budapest and Bayreuth
- Chapter 7 1875: Vienna
- Chapter 8 1876: Bayreuth
- Chapter 9 1877: London
- Chapter 10 1878–1879: Vienna
- Chapter 11 1879–1880: Friends and Enemies
- Chapter 12 1880–1881: London and Vienna
- Chapter 13 1881–1882: Richter and d'Albert
- Chapter 14 1882: Richter and d'Albert
- Chapter 15 1882–1883: The Master's Death
- Chapter 16 1884: More Opera in London
- Chapter 17 1885–1886: Vienna, London and Birmingham
- Chapter 18 1887–1888 Return to Bayreuth
- Chapter 19 1889–1900: Vienna
- Chapter 20 1897–1900: Richter and Mahler
- Chapter 21 1889–1890: England
- Chapter 22 1891–1895: England
- Chapter 23 1895–1900: England
- Chapter 24 1890–1899: Bayreuth
- Chapter 25 1894–1899: Richter's Diary
- Chapter 26 1899–1900: Hallé Orchestra
- Chapter 27 1900–1902: England
- Chapter 28 1903–1904: England
- Chapter 29 1904–1906: England
- Chapter 30 1906–1908: England
- Chapter 31 1908–1909: England
- Chapter 32 1909–1911: England
- Chapter 33 1911–1914: Retirement
- Chapter 34 1914–1916: The Last Years
- Chapter 35 Finale
- HANS RICHTER'S CONDUCTING BOOKS
- Appendix 1 Works conducted by Hans Richter
- Appendix 2 Cities and towns where Richter conducted
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The year 1888 was the halfway point in Richter's forty-seven-year professional career from 1865 to 1912. It was also the busiest year of his life; he never again had simultaneous associations with so many organisations or held so many positions. In that year he had his four posts in Vienna, his London season, his return to Bayreuth, his first engagement at the Lower Rhine Music Festival and his second Birmingham Triennial Festival. Between 1888 and his departure from Vienna in the New Year of 1900 to reside in Manchester as Hallé's successor there were no new commitments, only new works, new artists and new composers. On 23 December 1888, at the fourth Vienna Philharmonic concert, he conducted his two thousandth performance; his first thousand had been completed on 9 January 1881, the third would take place on 17 November 1895 and the fourth on 14 May 1906. With his annual schedule firmly established by the end of the 1880s, an overview of Richter's life in the 1890s covering all aspects of his musical life now follows, with an emphasis on special occasions or events during the decade.
At the Vienna Opera the Jahn–Richter duo held sway until 1897, the year of Mahler's arrival. Jahn's great achievements in his last years were the staging of Verdi's Otello and Falstaff and Massenet's Manon and Werther, neither of which concerned Richter who only conducted the less successful Le Cid. Both were vehicles for van Dyck and Marie Renard. They were two of the new generation of singers about to replace those who had reigned supreme during the previous two decades but they maintained the golden era with wonderful performances of their own. Amalie Materna sang her last Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung under Richter on 30 December 1894 and retired in 1897. Lilli Lehmann took on the mantle of that role, whilst Paula Mark's fame grew with her portrayal of Nedda in Pagliacci. The American contralto Edyth Walker made her Viennese debut as Azucena in Il trovatore on 11 May 1895 under Richter and remained a member of the company well into Mahler's era. Marie Wilt and Rosa Papier completed Jahn's most successful female singers, whilst among the men were Karl Sommer, Josef Ritter and Scaria's heir, Karl Grengg. They all sang under Richter and many were recommended by him to Cosima Wagner at Bayreuth.
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- Hans Richter , pp. 245 - 263Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2016