German Theodor Otto Grödener ( German: Hermann Theodor Otto Grädener ; May 8, 1844 , Kiel - September 18, 1929 ) - Austrian composer, violinist, music teacher. The son of Karl Gredener .
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He graduated from the Vienna Conservatory ( 1862 ). In 1864 - 1869 violinist of the Vienna Opera . From 1873 he taught at the Clavier School of Horak , from 1877 at the Conservatory, and from 1884 a professor; among his students, in particular, Clemens Kraus . In 1892-1896 led the Vienna Singing Academy . In 1899 he headed the Department of Harmony and Counterpoint at the University of Vienna , which Anton Bruckner had previously held.
Gredener was a rather conservative writer. He owns the only opera, "Holy Zita" ( German Die Heilige Zita ), staged in Vienna in 1918 , a symphony, a violin concert, variations for organ, trumpet and string orchestra, various chamber works, among which contemporaries appreciated two string quartets.
In the biography of Gustav Mahler, Gredener is mentioned in connection with his enthusiastic reaction to the youthful Mahler piano quartet, which was subsequently lost (Gredener even organized a private performance of this work in one of Vienna's private houses) [4] . Mahler was not equally endorsed by the music of Gredener: when he was the head of the Vienna Opera, he did not accept his opera to be staged [5] . Moritz Rosenthal in his memoirs also reports on the caustic reviews of Johannes Brahms , who had once collaborated with Gredener the father, on Gredener the son, explaining them, however, with envy [6] .
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- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 116808268 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Alfred Rosenzweig. Gustav Mahler: new insights into his life, times and work - Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 .-- P. 151.
- ↑ Henry-Louis de La Grange. Gustav Mahler: Vienna: triumph and disillusion (1904-1907) - Oxford University Press, 1999 .-- P. 54.
- ↑ Moriz Rosenthal. Brahmsiana // Moriz Rosenthal in word and music: A legacy of the nineteenth century -Indiana University Press, 2006 .-- P. 116. (English)
Links
- Gredener, Herman: sheet music for works at the International Music Score Library Project