Felix Mottl
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Felix Mottl (24 August 1856 — 2 July 1911) was an Austrian conductor and composer.
Born near Vienna, he had a successful career at the Vienna Conservatoire. He became known as a gifted conductor of Wagner's music, and assisted Hans Richter in the preparations for the first compete Ring Cycle at Bayreuth; in 1886 he directed the performance of Tristan und Isolde at the Bayreuth Festival. From 1881 to 1903 he was conductor at the Karlsruhe Opera, and made a wide reputation for his activity there, particularly in producing the works of Wagner and Berlioz. In later years, as aconductor of Wagner especially, he visited London and New York, where he was guest conductor for the Metropolitan Opera in 1903. In 1904 he was made a director of the Academy of Music at Berlin. In June 1907 he cut some player piano rolls, including his own piano transcription of the Prelude, the Love Duet and Brangäne's Warning from Tristan. He died on July 2, 1911 while conducting a performance of Tristan in Munich
Mottl was regarded as one of the most brilliant conductors of his day. He composed some operas, of which Agnes Bernauer (Weimar, 1880) was the most successful, and numerous songs and other music. He was also a teacher, counting among his pupils Ernest van Dyck.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- ↑ Infamously this feat was repeated by Joseph Keilberth in 1968.
| Preceded by Hermann Zumpe |
General Music Directors, Bavarian State Opera 1904–1911 |
Succeeded by Bruno Walter |
