- Anton Seidl
Anton Seidl (
7 May 1850 –28 March 1898 ) was a Hungarian conductor.He was born at
Budapest , and entered the Leipzig Conservatory in October 1870, remaining there until 1872, when he was summoned toBayreuth as one ofRichard Wagner 's copyists. There he assisted in making the first fair copy of "Der Ring des Nibelungen ". Thoroughly imbued with the Wagnerian spirit, it was natural that he should take a part in the firstBayreuth Festival in 1876.His chance as a conductor came when, on Wagner's recommendation, he was appointed to the
Leipzig State Theater , where he remained until, in 1882, he went on tour withAngelo Neumann 's Nibelungen Ring company. To his conducting the critics attributed much of such artistic success as attended the production of the Trilogy ather Majesty's Theatre in London in June of that year.In 1883 Seidl went with Neumann to Bremen, but two years later was appointed successor to
Leopold Damrosch as conductor of theGerman Opera Company inNew York City , and in the same year he marriedAuguste Kraus , the distinguished singer. He became conductor of theNew York Philharmonic in 1891 where he remained until is death in 1898.References
*1911|article=Anton Seidl|author=|url=http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Anton_Seidl
* [http://homepage.mac.com/rswinter/DirectTestimony/Pages/153.html Excerpts from Memoirs of Anton Seidl]Further reading
* Finck, Henry Theophilus and Krehbiel, Henry Edward. " [http://books.google.com/books?id=qNI5AAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r Anton Seidl; a memorial by his friends] ". New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1899. Reprinted New York : Da Capo Press, 1983. ISBN 0-306-76144-0.
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