Otto Gumprecht ( German Otto Gumprecht ; April 4, 1823 , Erfurt - February 6, 1900 , Merano , Princely District of Tyrol, Austria-Hungary [1] ) - German musicologist and music critic.
| Otto Gumprecht | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | him. Otto gumprecht |
| Date of Birth | April 4, 1823 |
| Place of Birth | Erfurt , Kingdom of Prussia |
| Date of death | February 6, 1900 (aged 76) |
| Place of death | Merano , Princely District of Tyrol, Austria-Hungary |
| A country |  German Empire |
| Professions | musicologist , music critic |
He studied law in Breslau , Halle and Berlin , defended his thesis, but since 1849 he abandoned his legal career and focused on music criticism.
In the 1850-1870s. Gumprecht, allegedly, composed, together with Richard Wurst and Gustav Engel, the “Big Three” of Berlin music critics [2] . He dedicated a separate book to Richard Wagner ( German: Richard Wagner und Dessen Bühnenfestspiel, Der Ring des Nibelungen ; 1873 ), wrote about the influence of Handel’s oratorios on Felix Mendelssohn , the difference between church and religious music, etc.
In 1869 he published the collection Essays on Musical Figures ( German: Musikalische Charakterbilder ), three years later - his second volume.
In 1889, after suffering a stroke, he retired.
Notes
- ↑ Now - in the autonomous province of Bolzano-Bozen - South Tyrol , Italy .
- ↑ Musical matters abroad // The New York Times . - 1900, 1 st Apr.