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
- Preface
- Book 1 1865–March 1884
- Book 2 March 1884–March 1895
- Book 3 March 1895–April 1899
- Book 4 April 1899–1901
- Book 5 1902–January 1907
- Book 6 January 1907–1912
- Appendix 1 Works conducted by Hans Richter
- Appendix 2 Cities and towns where Richter conducted
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Preface
from HANS RICHTER'S CONDUCTING BOOKS
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
- Preface
- Book 1 1865–March 1884
- Book 2 March 1884–March 1895
- Book 3 March 1895–April 1899
- Book 4 April 1899–1901
- Book 5 1902–January 1907
- Book 6 January 1907–1912
- Appendix 1 Works conducted by Hans Richter
- Appendix 2 Cities and towns where Richter conducted
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
It is hard to imagine how, given his conducting duties and travel schedules, Hans Richter found the time to record in his conducting books every opera, concert and Hofkapelle (Court Chapel) service he conducted, together with details for each entry of venue, date, soloist, programme, opera and even some occasional comments. His first public appearance was at a concert in his home town of Raab on 19 September 1865. To begin with, Richter lists just the works performed in each concert programme or the opera's title and at the end of the first of the six books, a summary of how many performances he has conducted of each opera to that date: for example, he had reached his seventh of Der Tribut von Zamora by Gounod on 20 March 1884. Thereafter, from the second book, he places the accumulating number of times he has conducted each opera as it appears, starting with his eleventh of Tristan und Isolde on 23 March 1884. Every tenth performance, whether opera, concert or chapel duty, is logged, starting with Der erste Glückstag (Le premier jour de bonheur) by Gluck on 7 October 1869. For the purposes of this book, dates (originally entered in German with ditto marks until a change of month) are listed in English with no such marks, for instance 4ter Jänner, 1880 is 4 January 1880. A few changes of programme are noted by Richter and on two or three occasions even the printed slip produced for the public's benefit is pasted in.
Misspellings, inconsistencies or inaccuracies have in general been left as Richter wrote them. Operas are usually given their German titles, for example Wilhelm Tell by Rossini but La traviata by Verdi. However, the spelling of artists’ names remains as he wrote them; works performed in England are often listed in their English version but Beethoven's Ninth or Choral Symphony is always referred to as ‘Die Neunte’ even in performances beyond Germany, while Tchaikovsky's (almost always spelt Tschaikowsky) Sixth Symphony soon becomes simply Pathétique. The first performance of Elgar's Enigma Variations (19 June 1899) appears as it does on the title page of the score, namely ‘Variations for full orchestra’, on 16 March 1904 and 3 December 1906 as ‘Variations on an original theme’ (with or without Op. 36), the remaining thirty performances simply ‘Variations’ – Richter never uses the word Enigma.
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- Hans Richter , pp. 471 - 473Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2016