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Michael Balling (27 August 1866 in Heidingsfeld, near Würzburg – 1 September 1925 in Darmstadt) was an German violist and conductor. He served as principal conductor of The Hallé, Manchester, England from 1912 to 1914.
Balling studied violin with Hermann Ritter at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg and was an early convert to the viola alta, a large scale viola introduced by Ritter in 1876. By the late 1880s, Balling had established himself as a viola player of some note playing the instrument with great success in Wagner operas at the Bayreuth Festival,[1] and later conducted there from 1906 to 1909. Balling also promoted the viola alta in England.
Sources
- Donald Maurice (2003). "Michael Balling 1886-1925, Pioneer German Solo Violist with a New Zealand Interlude". Journal of the American Viola Society Online (JAVS), Summer 2003. http://violaspace.com/avs/ks/site/JAVS%20Online/Summer%202003/Balling/Balling.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
References
- ^ Riley, Maurice W. (1980). "Brief Biographies of Violists". The History of the Viola, Volume I. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Braun-Brumfield. p. 317
Hallé Principal Conductors Charles Hallé (1858) · Frederic Cowen (1895) · Hans Richter (1899) · Michael Balling (1912) · Thomas Beecham (1915)[dubious ] · Hamilton Harty (1920) · Malcolm Sargent (1939) · John Barbirolli (1943) · James Loughran (1972) · Stanisław Skrowaczewski (1983) · Kent Nagano (1992) · Mark Elder (2000)
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