Oswald Kabasta ( him. Oswald Kabasta ; 1896 - 1946 ) - Austrian conductor .
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| Date of Birth | December 29, 1896 |
| Place of Birth | Mistelbach an der Tsaya , Austria-Hungary |
| Date of death | February 6, 1946 (49 years) |
| Place of death | Kufstein |
| A country |  Austria-Hungary ,  Austria |
| Professions | conductor |
Biography
In 1913–1916, he studied at the Vienna Academy of Music under Josef Marx and Ferdinand Loew , a student of Anton Bruckner , and also took private lessons from Franz Schmidt (later he conducted the premiere of one of the most famous works of Schmidt, the oratorio Book at Seven Seals, 1938 , - as well as the fourth symphony dedicated to him).
He led small orchestras in Wiener Neustadt and Baden , since 1926 , General Director of Graz .
Since 1931 he took the leadership of the class of conducting Franz Schalk in the Vienna Academy of Music.
In 1934 he headed the Vienna Symphony Orchestra . His influence on this team persisted until the 1970s.
In 1938 he was appointed music director of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra , at the same time he joined the NSDAP (as it is believed, this was stipulated by the condition of his appointment) [1] . At the same time, he continued to include in the programs the works of unwanted authorities by composers - F. Mendelssohn , P. Duke , G. Mahler , B. Bartok . In 1944, included in Gottbegnadeten-Liste .
In August 1944 , after Tonhalle, the main concert venue of the Munich Orchestra, was destroyed by the Allied bombardment, Kabast's active conduct activities ceased. After the end of the Second World War, the cultural administration of the Allies forbade him to conduct conducting, falsely accusing him of membership in the Nazi Party since 1932.
On February 6, 1946, after desperate letters asking for a return to concert activity, Kabast died from an overdose of sleeping pills.
Kabasta was a master in the Bruckner repertoire - his live recordings of the fourth , seventh and ninth symphonies are highly valued. Among the few recordings by Kabasta stands out, in particular, Antonin Dvorak 's Ninth Symphony “From the New World”, recorded in Munich on July 14, 1944, during his last concert with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra; ironically, this record was long attributed to Wilhelm Furtwängler [2] .
Sources
- ↑ Monod, David. Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, The Americans, 1945-1953 . - University of North Carolina Press, 2005. - P. p. 59. - ISBN 0807829447 .
- ↑ R. Detmer. Review of the double CD Oswald Kabasta (eng.)
Links
- Discography (English)