August Püringer ( German: August Püringer ; August 31, 1874 [1] , Vienna - after 1935 [2] ) - German music critic and conductor of Austrian origin.
Since the early 1890s published as a music critic and publicist in the Vienna newspaper Ostdeutsche Rundschau . He published a book of poems ( German Gedichte ; Dresden , 1900), the drama The Taming of Chaos ( German Die Bändigung des Chaos ; 1901), several songs on verses by Goethe , Schiller, and others. In 1904, the tutor in Laybach . In 1905-1906 headed the Carlsbad Spa Orchestra , after the first season he retired amid a series of conflicts and a negative assessment of his work [3] . After that, he lived mainly in Germany and was mainly engaged in journalism (although in 1910-1911 he was the chief conductor of the New Berlin Operetta Theater, the German Neue Berliner Operettenensemble ). For some time he served as editor-in-chief of the Deutsche Zeitung newspaper , an organ of the All- German Union [4] .
A passionate admirer of Richard Wagner , in the words of a later researcher, is a “gullible and carefree fanatic” ( German: leichtgläubig-unbekümmert Fanatiker ) [5] . In early publications, he often chose the names of the characters of Wagnerian operas as pseudonyms . Since 1904, he has published many articles in the Bayreuther Blätter magazine, of which the most famous is Richard Wagner and Bismarck (1924), who interpreted these two personalities as symbols of the German nation, pursuing common goals [6] . In 1912, he initiated a petition to the Reichstag demanding the adoption of a law protecting Wagner established and expiring in 1913 the exclusive right of the Bayreuth Festival to stage the opera Parsifal ; The petition gained 18 thousand signatures, but was rejected by the Reichstag [7] . Throughout his journalistic career, he made anti-Semitic publications, in particular accusing Jews of eroding and weakening the purely German national character of Wagnerian work. In 1921, in connection with the prospect of a revival of the festival after the First World War, he demanded that Siegfried Wagner not allow Jews to participate in it; Wagner responded with a lengthy rebuke to Pühringer, saying that representatives of all nations would be welcomed in Bayreuth [8] .
Notes
- ↑ Kürschners deutscher literatur-kalender auf das Jahr 1904 / Hrsg. von Dr. H. Klenz. - Leipzig, 1904. - Kol. 1030.
- ↑ D. Broadback points out that Pühringer's publications are found until this year. (David Lee Brodbeck. Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity, and Music-critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna. - Oxford University Press, 2014. - P. 243.) In this regard, the reference to 1925 as it appears in some sources death must be mistaken.
- ↑ Antonín Mařík. Proměny Lázeňského orchestru v Karlových Varech do 1. světové války // "Západočeské archivy". - 2011 . - S. 112.
- ↑ Brigitte Hamann. Winifred Wagner, oder, Hitlers Bayreuth. - Piper Verlag, 2002 .-- S. 68.
- ↑ Winfried Schüler. Der Bayreuther Kreis von seiner Entstehung bis zum Ausgang der wilhelminischen Ära. - Verlag Aschendorff, 1971. - S. 161-162.
- ↑ Hannu Salmi. Wagner and bismarck
- ↑ Mary A. Cicora. Parsifal Reception in the Bayreuther Blätter . - P. Lang, 1987 .-- P. 30.
- ↑ Jonathan Carr. The Wagner Clan. - Faber & Faber, 2011 .-- P. 147.