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Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1a youth he made a concert-tour, finally settling for a time in 1867 as "Conzertmeister" at the town theatre in Breslau. When Schuch, now conductor at Dresden, quitted a similar post at the Lobe Theater, Hans Sitt was promoted to fill the vacancy. Later he occupied the same office at the Landes-Theater in Prague and at the town theatre in Chemnitz.
3In 1880 Baron Derwies engaged him to conduct his orchestra of sixty at Nice, where performances both of concert-music and opera were given. This was no sinecure. Through it Sitt obtained a great deal of experience that was to be of real service to him later in the fine art of orchestral conducting. On the death of Baron Derwies, however, the orchestra was disbanded.
5Sitt then returned to North Germany and became conductor of the recently founded Crystal Palace Institute's orchestra. This though a post of little importance was useful for the experience it gave, and Sitt made a considerable reputation for himself and his band by his admirably arranged popular concerts, at which he frequently appeared himself as solo-violinist. Yet neither the position held by these concerts nor the direction of a mere pleasure band were calculated to afford the completest satisfaction to such an artist. But when Brodsky was summoned to fill the office of professor of the violin at the Conservatorium, he (with Nowaček, Sitt and Grützmacher from Weimar) founded a string-quartet which very quickly obtained a European fame, Sitt playing the viola.
7Shortly after this (1883) Sitt became teacher of the violin at the Leipzig Conservatorium, and in order to exercise his skill as an orchestral director he undertook the conductorship of the Examination concerts (at the request of the directors) of which about twenty were held for instrumentalists and vocalists in the winter half-year.
9In addition to these manifold duties Sitt was chosen conductor of the Leipzig Bach Society on the retirement in 1885 of Herzogenberg, the Teacher's Vocal Society,
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