Hans Swarovski is an Austrian conductor of Jewish origin. Since 1946 - professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
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Swarovski was born in Budapest in the family of a Viennese industrialist. He studied art history and philosophy at the University of Vienna. Since 1920, he took lessons in music theory and conducting from Arnold Schoenberg , and then from Anton Webern [4] . After working as an accompanist, he worked as a mentor at the Vienna Volksoper , and then at the Stuttgart Opera House. He was then the first bandmaster and opera director at the Hera Theater before he was forced to become bandmaster at the Hamburg State Opera in 1934, and at the Berlin State Opera in 1935 [5] . After an alleged professional ban in 1936 [4], Swarovski worked from 1937 to 1940 at the Zurich Opera House before returning to the National Socialist Third Reich [4] [6] . At the invitation of Richard Strauss and Clemens Kraus Swarovski worked on the libretto of the opera Capriccio (the German version of Ronsard ’s son Kein Andres, das mir so im Herzen loht belongs to him). He also translated many old opera texts into German.
From 1940 to 1944, he also worked as a playwright at the Salzburg Festival . From 1944 until his last concert on January 9, 1945, he was the chief conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Governor General in Krakow in occupied Poland , where he directed the premiere of Hans Pfitsner ’s play “Krakauer Begrüßung”, which was dedicated to Hans Frank [7] .
After the end of World War II, Swarovski, who was in Stuttgart at that time, was briefly on the gray list of the US military government [5] . From 1946 to 1947 he was the main conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, director of the opera house in Graz in 1947-1950. As a result, he devoted himself primarily to teaching. Many of the most famous conductors of the last decades come from his school, such as Claudio Abbado , Alekseev Alexander Vasilievich, Paul Angerer, Rudolf Bibl [8] , Miltiades Caridis , Gabriel Khmura , Jesus Lopez Cobos , Yoram David, Jacques Delacotte, Adam and Ivan Fischer , Theodore Gushlbauer, Erwin Ortner, Christoph Haas, Raimund Hug, Manfred Huss, Maris Jansons , Miguel Gomez Martinez , Zubin Meta , James Allen Gares, Roberto Paternostro, Heinrich Schiff , Peter Schneider, Karl Sollak, Mario Wenagz Zanotelli.
Articles and lectures by Swarovski were published in Manfred Hus's collection Wahrung der Gestalt, which is the “bible” on interpretation and performance practice.
Swarovski’s grave is located in the central cemetery of Vienna (group 32 C, number 40).
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- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 117384402 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Tabellarische Biographie
- ↑ 1 2 Fred K. Prieberg: Handbuch Deutsche Musiker 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, S. 7.130.
- ↑ Swarowsky, _Hans in the vocabulary of Austria
- ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbuch Deutsche Musiker 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, S. 5240 and 7130–7131.
- ↑ Nachruf für Rudolf Bibl