15 Facts About Eusebius Mandyczewski

Eusebius Mandyczewski was a Romanian musicologist, composer, conductor, and teacher.

Eusebius Mandyczewski was an author of numerous musical works and is highly regarded within Austrian, Romanian and Ukrainian music circles.

Eusebius Mandyczewski was born in the village of Bahrynivka on 18 August 1857.

Eusebius Mandyczewski's father was a priest and his mother, Veronica, born Popovici, was the sister of Eusebiu Popovici, erudite professor of History at the University of Cernauti and the father of the Bucovinian poet Gheorghe Popovici.

Eusebius Mandyczewski's origin according to the father has Slavic affiliations; according to his mother the origin is Romanian.

Eusebius Mandyczewski finished his secondary studies at the upper school of Chernivtsi and simultaneously studied music under Sydir Vorobkevych.

Eusebius Mandyczewski began studies at the Chernivtsi University, then moved to the Vienna Conservatory in 1875 and studied music history under Eduard Hanslick, music theory under Gustav Nottebohm and Robert Fuchs.

From 1879 to 1881, Mandyczewski was the conductor of the Vienna Singakademie.

Eusebius Mandyczewski's name is particularly associated with the ten volumes of songs, which he edited meticulously, sometimes printing as many as three or four variants of individual songs; in recognition of his editorship he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig in 1897.

Eusebius Mandyczewski brought out a second volume of Nottebohm's Beethoveniana, a series of pioneering essays in Beethoven scholarship that had been partly published in series in the Musikalisches Wochenblatt and partly left in manuscript.

Eusebius Mandyczewski edited the complete edition of Franz Schubert's works, began a complete edition of Joseph Haydn's and, together with his pupil Hans Gal, edited Brahms's complete works.

Eusebius Mandyczewski was joint editor of the Brahms Gesamtausgabe with Hans Gal, and organized the Schubert exhibition of 1922 and the International Schubert Congress ; this last function greatly overtaxed his strength, and he died before the proceedings of the congress were published.

Eusebius Mandyczewski composed music to the words of poets such as Taras Shevchenko, Yuriy Fedkovych, Vasile Alecsandri, Mihai Eminescu, and Heinrich Heine.

Eusebius Mandyczewski arranged compositions based on many Ukrainian, Romanian, German, and Hungarian folk songs.

Eusebius Mandyczewski died in Sulz near Vienna, Austria on 13 August 1929.