- Julius Rietz
August Wilhelm Julius Rietz (
December 28 ,1812 ,Berlin –September 12 ,1877 [cite journal|title=Dr. Julius Rietz.|journal=Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature|pages=113|date=October 27, 1877|volume=37|issue=15|last=Dwight|first=John Sullivan
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=anE_AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA113&dq=%22julius+rietz%22+dwight+john&ei=pk8RR5ySH4P06wLBq-XQBw (Excerpt from October 1877 London Musical Times obituary, with birth and death dates and some biography)] ,Dresden ) was a Germancomposer , conductor and cellist. He was a teacher among whose students wereWoldemar Bargiel [cite web|title=Sleeve-notes for Recording of Bargiel and Mendelssohn Octets|publisher=Hyperion Records|url=http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/55043.html|year=1989|accessdate=2007-11-02] ,Salomon Jadassohn andArthur Sullivan [cite web|title=Arthur Sullivan in Memoriam|publisher=Musical Times|url=http://www.musicaltimes.co.uk/archive/obits/190012sullivan.html|accessdate=2007-11-02|month=December | year=1900] .He also edited many works by
Felix Mendelssohn for publication.The
Louisville Orchestra First Edition series contained, besides many works mostly by modern composers (usually American), Rietz' Concert Overture, opus 7 (coupled with the second symphony ofMax Bruch ), and recorded around 1970 ["Louisville Orchestra LS 703", 1970 series, number 3: withJorge Mester conducting the orchestra. Note cite web|title=Library Catalog Permalink for a reference to this long-playing record|publisher=Cornell University
url=https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=2174238&DB=local|accessdate=2007-11-02] . This may have been the same concert overture commissioned by the Lower Rhine Festival to commemorate an anniversary [cite journal|last=Dwight|first=John Sullivan|title=The Forty-First Musical Festival of the Lower Rhine|journal=Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature|pages=282–3|volume=24|issue=10|date=August 6, 1864|accessdate=2007-11-02|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_CQ5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA284&dq=julius+rietz&as_brr=3&ei=6GcrR42mKoPS7QLO4_SWBQ#PPA283,M1] .References
*cite book | last=Fuller-Maitland | first=John A. | coauthors=Grove, George | title=A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) | pages=pp.132-133 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=WlAoAAAAMAAJ&pg | location=London | publisher=Macmillan | year=1883 | oclc=19025639
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