Emil Paur ( German: Emil Paur ; August 29, 1855 , Chernivtsi , now Ukraine - June 7, 1932 , Mistek , now Czech Republic ) - Austrian conductor.
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| Date of Birth | August 29, 1855 |
| Place of Birth | Chernivtsi , Austrian Empire [1] |
| Date of death | June 7, 1932 (aged 76) |
| Place of death | Frydek-Mistek , Czechoslovakia |
| A country | Austria |
| Professions | conductor |
| Collectives | Boston Symphony Orchestra , New York Philharmonic Orchestra , Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra , Berlin Opera Orchestra |
Biography
The son of the conductor and music teacher Franz Paura, a student of Karl Czerny . He studied violin and piano in Vienna , then studied conducting under the direction of Arthur Nikisch and Felix Motl .
He worked in Kassel , then in Königsberg , where, in particular, in 1879 he carried out, together with director Max Stegemann , the German premiere of Bizet 's opera Carmen , which was a resounding success. In 1880 - 1889 worked in Mannheim , then for some time in Leipzig .
In 1893 he moved to the United States , where he headed the Boston ( 1893 - 1898 ), then the New York Philharmonic ( 1898 - 1902 ) orchestras. Since 1899 he was also the director of the National Conservatory . After a short return to Europe, he made a tour with his own orchestra in the United States, and then headed the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra ( 1904 - 1910 ). In the United States, Paur has established himself as a promoter of German music - above all, Brahms and Wagner . James Haneker notes the special role of Paura in acquainting American listeners with the work of Richard Strauss , noting also that along with Strauss, Paura’s skate was Tchaikovsky’s music [2] . At the same time, Paur did not shy away from American music - in particular, in Boston he conducted the Indian Suite by Edward MacDowell , which the composer dedicated to the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Paur as its leader, performed the premiere of the Gaelic Symphony Amy Beach ( 1896 ) and others.
Upon returning to Europe, Paur directed the orchestra of the Berlin Opera.
Family
In 1882 , he married the pianist Maria Burger (1862-1899), a student of Theodore Leshetitsky .
Their son Kurt Paur became a pianist, studied with Ernst von Donagni and made his debut in Berlin in 1912 with his father’s orchestra [3] , and later worked in the USA.
Notes
- ↑ Now - the regional center of Ukraine .
- ↑ Huneker J. The Philharmonic Society of New York and its seventy-fifth anniversary: A retrospect . - New York: The Philharmonic Society of New York, 1917. - P. 18–19.
- ↑ Berlin vaudeville reaches West End // The New York Times , November 17, 1912.