Contents
- Author’s Note
- Conductors born in the 1850s
- SIR GEORGE HENSCHEL
- ARTHUR NIKISCH
- ROBERT KAJANUS
- MAX FIEDLER
- KARL MUCK
- Conductors born in the 1860s
- ENRIQUE FERNANDEZ ARBOS
- GABRIEL PIERNÉ
- FRANZ SCHALK
- FELIX WEINGARTNER
- RICHARD STRAUSS
- ARTURO TOSCANINI
- LORENZO MOLAJOLI
- MAX VON SCHILLINGS
- HANS PFITZNER
- SIR HENRY J. WOOD
- Conductors born in the 1870s
- LEO BLECH
- OSKAR FRIED
- WILLEM MENGELBERG
- ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY
- SIEGMUND VON HAUSEGGER
- ALFRED HERTZ
- FREDERICK STOCK
- SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
- SIR LANDON RONALD
- SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY
- SELMAR MEYROWITZ
- PIERRE MONTEUX
- ETTORE PANIZZA
- PABLO CASALS
- BRUNO WALTER
- ARTUR BODANZKY
- OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH
- TULLIO SERAFIN
- SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
- PHILIPPE GAUBERT
- SIR HAMILTON HARTY
- GAETANO MEROLA
- FRANTISEK STUPKA
- Conductors born in the 1880s
- D. E. INGHELBRECHT
- CARL SCHURICHT
- BRUNO SEIDLER-WINKLER
- ALBERT COATES
- LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
- IGOR STRAVINSKY
- HERMANN ABENDROTH
- ERNEST ANSERMET
- NIKOLAI MALKO
- FRITZ STIEDRY
- VACLAV TALICH
- SAMUIL SAMOSUD
- ALBERT WOLFF
- VITTORIO GUI
- OTTO KLEMPERER
- HANS WEISBACH
- WILHELM FURTWAENGLER
- FRANCO GHIONE
- ROBERT HEGER
- GENNARO PAPI
- PAUL PARAY
- GEORGE GEORGESCU
- PIERO COPPOLA
- HANS KNAPPERTSBUSCH
- FRITZ REINER
- SIR ADRIAN BOULT
SIEGMUND VON HAUSEGGER
1872-1948
Many perfect Brucknerites know that the first recording of Bruckner’s Ninth was a pre-war version by the Munich Philharmonic conducted by the imperially monikered Siegmund von Hausegger who had in fact led the premiere of Bruckner’s original version – an editor’s remuddling of the piece had been going the rounds – at a private concert in Munich in 1932. Von H’s mellow, impassioned recording of the Ninth, lately on CD, is alas the only recording that’s come down to us from this teacher of the better-known Eugen Jochum. I for one would have loved to hear his Brahms . . . Now Jochum, there’s a great gentleman of the podium: I treasure his charming Haydn, his searching Grieg concerto in Amsterdam, his ultra-amorous Polish Scene from Boris in Munich. Von Hausegger like a number of our conductors, Weingartner, Walter, Furtwaengler, Blech, was also a composer — could there be a correlation between the passion of his Bruckner and a piece he wrote called Dionysian Fantasy? One could argue this out, I suppose, over those wonderful sausages in the brasserie at Munich’s Hauptbahnhof. Zemlinsky, of course, was the conductor who really made it as a composer, turning out that ripe plum of a song cycle the Lyric Symphony, a fragile giant that soars and twists somewhere between Richard Strauss and Alban Berg and boasts for sure a heart-wrenching final inning — “let love melt into memory,” says the poem by Tagore, “and pain into songs . . .”