16 Facts About Felix Weingartner

Paul Felix Weingartner, Edler von Munzberg was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.

Felix Weingartner was born in Zara, Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary, to Austrian parents.

Felix Weingartner eventually resigned from the opera post while continuing to conduct the symphony concerts, and then settled in Munich, where he incurred the enmity of pundits like Rudolf Louis and Ludwig Thuille.

Felix Weingartner gave his last concert in London that year and died in Winterthur, Switzerland two years later.

Felix Weingartner was the first conductor to make commercial recordings of all nine Beethoven symphonies, and the second to record all four Brahms symphonies.

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In 1935 he conducted the world premiere of Georges Bizet's long-lost Symphony in C His crisp classical conducting style contrasted with the romantic approach of many of his contemporaries such as Wilhelm Furtwangler, whose conducting is considered "subjective" on the basis of tempo fluctuations not called for in the printed scores; while Weingartner was more like Arturo Toscanini in insisting on playing as written.

Felix Weingartner taught conducting to students as eminent as Paul Sacher, Charles Houdret, Georg Tintner and Josef Krips.

Felix Weingartner experimented with films of himself conducting as a tool in "orchestral training".

Felix Weingartner was married five times, to Marie Juillerat, Baroness Feodora von Dreifus, mezzo-soprano Lucille Marcel, actress Roxo Betty Kalisch, and Carmen Studer .

Besides numerous operas, Felix Weingartner wrote seven symphonies which have all been recorded, with his other orchestral music, by cpo - classic production osnabruck, in Osnabruck, Germany.

Felix Weingartner's idiom left some marks on Erich Wolfgang Korngold, whose precocious Sinfonietta is dedicated to Weingartner, who conducted its first performance.

Felix Weingartner edited, with Charles Malherbe, the complete works of Hector Berlioz as well as the operas Joseph by Mehul and Oberon by Weber, and individual works of Gluck, Wagner and others.

Felix Weingartner made orchestral versions of piano works such as Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata, Weber's Invitation to the Dance, and Bizet's Variations chromatiques.

Felix Weingartner was early interested in the occult, astrology, and Eastern mysticism, which influenced his personal philosophy and his music to some extent.

Felix Weingartner was himself a prolific writer who published a poetical drama, Golgotha, in 1908.

Felix Weingartner wrote copiously on music drama, on conducting, on the symphony since Beethoven, on the symphonies of Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann as well as on art and esoteric subjects.