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LEVI, HERMANN (1839-1900)
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See also:LEVI, See also:HERMANN (1839-1900) , See also:German orchestral conductor, was See also:born at See also:Giessen on the 7th of See also:November 1839, and was the son of a Jewish See also:rabbi. He was educated at Giessen and See also:Mannheim, and came under Vincenz Lachner's See also:notice. From 1855 to 1858 Levi studied at the See also:Leipzig conservatorium, and after a See also:series of travels which took him to See also:Paris, he obtained his first See also:post as See also:music director at See also:Saarbrucken, which post he exchanged for that at Mannheim in 1861. From 1862 to 1864 he was See also:chief conductor of the German See also:opera in See also:Rotterdam, then till 1872 at Carlsruhe, when he went to See also:Munich, a post he held until 1896, when See also:ill-See also:health compelled him to resign. Levi's name is indissolubly connected with the increased public appreciation of See also:Wagner's music. He conducted the first performance of See also:Parsifal at See also:Bayreuth in 1882, and was connected with the musical See also:life of that See also:place during the See also:remainder of his career. He visited See also:London in 1895. End of Article: LEVI, HERMANN (1839-1900)Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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