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RICHTER, HANS (1843– )

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RICHTER, HANS (1843– ) , Hungarian musical conductor, See also:born at Raab on the 4th of See also:April 1843, was the son of the kapellmeister at the See also:cathedral, and of his wife, nee See also:Josephine Csazinsky, who was the first to perform See also:Venus in See also:Tannhauser at See also:Vienna. See also:Young Hans sang either See also:soprano or See also:alto. in the cathedral See also:choir, according to requirement, and occasionally played the See also:organ. But his public debut was made as a drummer in See also:Haydn's Paukenmesse. In 1853, at the See also:age of ten, he appeared in a See also:concert as pianist in See also:Hummel's E See also:flat quintet; and in 1854, after his See also:father's See also:death, went to the choristers' school, the Convikt (where See also:Schubert was educated) in Vienna, and there became chorister in the See also:Court See also:Chapel. For five years from 186o Richter studied under Heissler and Sechter in the Vienna Conservatorium, and he learnt the See also:horn under Kleinecke. A See also:year and a See also:half after his first See also:lesson he became hornist in the old Karnthnerther See also:Theatre at £3 a See also:month. Meanwhile he had devoted See also:time to conducting. It was not till See also:August 1868 that Richter made his first See also:appearance as a conductor, at the See also:Hof Theater, See also:Munich (where he had just been appointed), in See also:William Tell; but in the next year he resigned this See also:post, went first to See also:Paris, then to See also:Brussels, and finally to Triebschen, where he copied Der See also:Ring See also:des Nibelungen for See also:Wagner. In April 1871 Richter took up his new duties as conductor of the Hungarian See also:National See also:Opera at See also:Budapest, where he remained four years, until he began in May 1875 his See also:long connexion with the Vienna Opera, which terminated only with the See also:century. In 1876. Richter After his See also:mother's death he went in 1797 to See also:Leipzig, and in the following year to See also:Weimar, where he had much pleasant intercourse with See also:Herder, by whom he was warmly appreciated. He did not become intimate with See also:Goethe and See also:Schiller, to both of whom his See also:literary methods were repugnant; but in Weimar, as elsewhere, his remarkable conversational See also:powers and his genial See also:manners made him a favourite in See also:general society.

In 18or he married See also:

Caroline See also:Meyer, whom he met in See also:Berlin in 1800. They lived first at See also:Meiningen, then at See also:Coburg; and filially, in 1804, they settled at See also:Bayreuth. Here Richter spent a quiet; See also:simple and happy See also:life, constantly occupied with his See also:work as a writer. In 18o8 he was fortunately delivered from anxibty as to outward necessities by the See also:prince-See also:primate, K. T. von See also:Dalberg, who gave him a See also:pension of a thousand florins. Before settling at Bayreuth, Richter had published his most ambitious novel, Titan (1800–3); and this was followed by Flegeljahre (1804-5), two See also:works which he himself regarded as his See also:master-pieces. His later imaginative works were 'Dr Katzenbergers Badereise (18o9), Des Feldpredigers Schmelzle Reise nach Fldtz (1809), Leben Fibels (1812), and Der Komet, See also:oder Nikolaus See also:Marggraf (1820-22). In Vorschule der Aesthetik (1804) h'e expounded his ideas on See also:art; he discussed the principles of See also:education in Levana, oder Erziehungslehre (1807); and the opinions suggested by current events he set forth in Friedenspredigt (1808), Ddmmerungen See also:fur Deutschland (1809), See also:Mars and Phobus Thronwechsel See also:im Jahre 1814 (2814), andPolitische Fastenpredigten (1817). In his last years he began Wahrheit aus See also:Jean Pauls Leben; to which additions from his papers and other See also:sources were made after his death by C. See also:Otto and E. See also:Forster. In 1821 Richter lost his only son, a youth of the highest promise; and he never quite recovered from this See also:shock.

He died of See also:

dropsy; at Bayreuth, on the 14th See also:November directed the rehearsals and performances of Der Ring at Bayreuth; and in 1877 paid his first visit to See also:England to conduct the Wagner Festival at the See also:Albert See also:Hall. There in 1879 he founded the Richter Concerts, which were a See also:revelation to See also:London 'musical circles of the masterly See also:personality of the conductor, and his See also:influence upon the See also:orchestra; in 1885 he became conductor of the See also:Birmingham' Triennial Festival, . and was created See also:Mus. Doc. Oxon. honoris causa. In 1882 Richter also conducted a famous See also:series of performances of Wagner'.s works (including the first in England of See also:Die See also:Meistersinger and See also:Tristan) at See also:Drury See also:Lane, and in r9oo became conductor of the See also:Halle Orchestra in See also:Manchester. He had established his position as one of the most richly gifted and the most experienced of See also:modern conductors, supreme in the See also:interpretation of See also:Beethoven, Wagner and See also:Brahms.

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