- Richard Specht
Richard Specht (
December 7 ,1870 ,Vienna -March 19 ,1932 ) was anAustria nlyricist ,dramatist ,musicologist andwriter .Specht is most well-known for his writings on classical music, and in his time was seen as a leading music journalist. He was a great authority on the music of
Gustav Mahler , and in later life became a regular acquaintance of his widow,Alma Mahler-Werfel .He was, amongst other things, a contributor to the "Wiener Illustrierten Extrablatts" and other Viennese newspapers. From 1910, he worked at the "Merker" publishing house. In 1925, he was appointed to a professorship at the institution that is now the
University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna .Works
Fiction
* Gedichte (1893)
* Das Gastmahl des Plato, Drama (1895)
* Pierrot bossu, Drama (1896)
* Mozart, twelve poems (1914)
* Florestan Kestners Erfolg, a story (1929)
* Die Nase des Herrn Valentin Berger, Drama (1929)Academic works
*
Johann Strauss (1909)
*Gustav Mahler (1913)
* Das Wiener Operntheater - "Fifty years of memories" (1919)
*Die Frau ohne Schatten - "Introduction to the music" (1919)
*Richard Strauss and his work (1921)
*Julius Bittner (1921)
*Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek - "A preliminary study" (1922)
*Arthur Schnitzler - "The poet and his work. A study" (1922)
*Wilhelm Furtwängler (1922)
*Franz Werfel (1926)
*Johannes Brahms (1928)
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