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    Arthur Nikisch (12 October 1855 – 23 January 1922) was a Hungarian conductor who performed internationally, holding posts in Boston, London, Leipzig and—most...
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    succeeding Richard Strauss. In January 1922, following the sudden death of Arthur Nikisch, he was appointed to the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Shortly afterwards...
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  • Beethoven's Fifth Symphony by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Arthur Nikisch has been regarded as the first complete recording of a full length orchestral...
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    It is dedicated to Ludwig II of Bavaria. The premiere, given under Arthur Nikisch and the Gewandhaus Orchestra in the opera house at Leipzig on 30 December...
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    Ferdinand Löwe, St Petersburg under Alexander Siloti, and Leipzig under Arthur Nikisch. There were performances in Rome, Chicago, Boston, Toronto and fifteen...
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    the series on October 27, 1904, and the others were conducted by Herr Arthur Nikisch, Mr. Fritz Steinbach, Sir Charles Stanford, M. Edouard Colonne, Sir...
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    composer Artúr Nikisch (1855–1922), Hungarian conductor Arthur Philipp Nikisch (1888–1968), German lawyer, son of Arthur (de) Mitja Nikisch (1899–1936),...
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    performance - perhaps the premiere - of the work on 17 February that year. (Arthur Nikisch, London Symphony Orchestra.) A. Eaglefield-Hull (Ed.), A Dictionary...
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    Mitja Nikisch was the son of the celebrated Hungarian orchestral conductor Arthur Nikisch and the Belgian singer and composer Amélie Nikisch. Like his...
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    Society and others (including the Bach Choir, and the Felix Mottl and Arthur Nikisch concerts) to adopt the continental pitch. In England the term low pitch...
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    teacher's teachers Persinger (1887–1966) studied with teachers including Arthur Nikisch, Jacques Thibaud, and Eugène Ysaÿe. Guila Bustabo Arnold Eidus Fredell...
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    performance of the second movement: 9 November 1896 Berlin, conducted by Arthur Nikisch (repeated by him in Leipzig on 21 January 1897). Performance of second...
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  • only 46 strings, much less than the Wagnerian ideal of 64. In 1895, Arthur Nikisch became chief conductor, and was succeeded in 1923 by Wilhelm Furtwängler...
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    Tauris. From 1886 to 1888, Gustav Mahler was the second conductor; Arthur Nikisch was his superior. During an air raid in the night of 3 December 1943...
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  • including the seminal and highly influential Hungarian-born conductor Arthur Nikisch, in accordance with the tastes of Higginson. Wilhelm Gericke served...
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    1899, when he gave a concert with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Arthur Nikisch. It was this concert and a series of American tours from 1901 to 1903...
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    two were first performed in Leipzig on 23 October 1913, conducted by Arthur Nikisch. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring is the longer of the two pieces...
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    concert. In 1914, he performed with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Arthur Nikisch. The conductor said he had never heard such an excellent violinist....
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    motto "Res severa verum gaudium" . Later principal conductors included Arthur Nikisch, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, and Václav Neumann. From 1970 to...
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    However, a performance of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony conducted by Arthur Nikisch in 1896 inspired him to become a composer. In 1902 he completed his...
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    Neues Stadttheater in Leipzig, where rivalry with his senior colleague Arthur Nikisch began almost at once. This conflict was primarily over how the two should...
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    Zeitung's music critic Theodor Helm, and famous conductors such as Arthur Nikisch and Franz Schalk constantly tried to bring his music to the public,...
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  • Album 1977 Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Arthur Nikisch His Master's Voice 1913 Classical Album 2008 Beethoven: Symphony No...
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    initial fame thanks to orchestral concerts he gave under the conductor Arthur Nikisch as well as playing in chamber music and accompanying his future wife...
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  • 1905) 1840 – Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress (d. 1909) 1855 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic (d. 1922) 1860 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry...
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  • 1922 – René Beeh, Alsatian painter and draughtsman (b. 1886) 1922 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic (b. 1855) 1923 – Max Nordau, Austrian...
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    conductors, including Arthur Nikisch (1855–1922) who succeeded Bülow as music director of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1895. Nikisch premiered important works...
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    Günther (1822–1897) 1897–1902: Carl Reinecke (1824–1910) 1902–1907: Arthur Nikisch (1855–1922) 1907–1924: Stephan Krehl (1864–1924) 1924–1932: Max Pauer...
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    with Arthur Nikisch before finishing with Eugène Ysaÿe in Brussels and then studying with Jacques Thibaud in France for two summers. Arthur Nikisch described...
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    hear international artists and to hear the early masters. In 1902, Arthur Nikisch became director of the Leipzig Conservatory, and approved her to sing...
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