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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1BIOGRAPHIES
3Moszkowski
4Jeanne d'arc, a symphony in four movements; and Phantastischer Zug for orchestra.
5His brother, Alexander, born at Pilica, Poland in 1851, is musical critic of the Deutsches Montagsblatt and joint editor of Berliner Wespen at Berlin and has also written several humorous booklets.
7Mottl (mot'-l), Felix. 1856-
8Gifted German orchestra conductor; born at Unter St. Veit, near Vienna. As a boy, his beautiful soprano voice enabled him to enter the Löwenberg Konvikt, a preparatory school to the Imperial Court Chapel. Afterward, at Vienna Conservatory he studied conducting under Josef Hellmesberger, composition under Dessoff, theory under Bruckner and Scheuer and piano under Door, and took many prizes. Intrusted with the conductorship of the Academie Wagnerverein of Vienna, his talents for the work at once manifested themselves. In 1876 he was stage conductor of the Nibelungen-Kanzlei, an organization which took charge of the rehearsals for the musical festival at Bayreuth. In 1880 he succeeded Dessoff as conductor of the Grand Ducal Opera House of Carlsruhe, a position which he held until 1903. He conducted the Philharmonic concerts until 1892. In 1886 he conducted the festival performance of Tristan and Isolde at Bayreuth so successfully that he was offered the position of chapelmaster of the Berlin Opera, an honor which he declined. In 1898 he rejected a similar offer from Munich. Besides this work he has also conducted successfully in London and Paris, and in 1903 and 1904 he conducted the performance of Parsifal given in New York. In 1904 he was made a director of the Royal Academy of Music at Berlin, and in 1907 at Munich he received the order of St. Michel of the second class from Prince Regent. He is one of the most enterprising of modern conductors and at Carlsruhe brought performances of the Royal Opera House up to a very high standard, producing all the Cycles of Berlioz and of Richard Wagner. As a conductor his work is distinguished by a careful mastery of detail and a conscientious rendition of the notes of the score rather than by any originality or force of interpretation.
10Moussorgsky
11Mottl has been successful as a composer. His opera, Agnes Bernauer, was given at Weimar in 1886 and his one-act opera, Fürst und Sänger, came out at Carlsruhe in 1893. He also wrote Ranin and a festival piece entitled Elberstein; the song cycle, Pan in Busch; and a string quartet. He arranged for orchestra, Liszt's piano solo, St. Francis Preaching to the Birds; and also edited Cornelius' Barber of Bagdad and some of Berlioz's compositions.
13Moussorgsky (moos-sôrg'-shki), Modeste Petrovich. 1835-1881.
14One of the strangest and most tragic figures in the history of modern music. He was a man possessed of great native ability, but cursed with those qualities of an artistic temperament which made it almost impossible for him to submit himself to discipline and restriction, or to pursue any one course for any length of time. He was incapable of enough concentration to study the technical part of music, and as a result, his writings have had to be edited by other musicians before they could be presented to the world. He was a realist of the most pronounced type, and his compositions, often quite lacking in form or beauty, make a direct appeal to the heart. Born at his father's country home at Kareve, in the government of Pskov, on March 28, 1835, the early part of his life passed quietly in the country. His musical talents were early developed, for his parents were both musicians, and his mother gave him piano lessons at which he showed such progress that when only nine he could play several of Liszt's compositions. He went to the Ensigns' School at St. Petersburg, and while there continued his music under the pianist, Herke. When only seventeen he entered the Preobrajensky Regiment, famed as one of the smartest in the Russian service. But the restrictions of a military career and its constant interruptions of his musical pursuits caused him to resign from the service little more than a year after he had entered it. Through an acquaintance with Dargomysky, which he formed in 1857, he became associated with Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodini, Balakirev, Cui and the other musicians who formed the little circle of neo-Russian musicians. He turned his
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