Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Preface to the New Edition
- Chronology
- Chapter 1 1843–1865: Childhood and Years of Study
- Chapter 2 1866–1867: Tribschen
- Chapter 3 1868–1869: Munich
- Chapter 4 1870–1871: Brussels; Tribschen
- Chapter 5 1871–1874: Budapest
- Chapter 6 1874–1875: Budapest and Bayreuth
- Chapter 7 1875: Vienna
- Chapter 8 1876: Bayreuth
- Chapter 9 1877: London
- Chapter 10 1878–1879: Vienna
- Chapter 11 1879–1880: Friends and Enemies
- Chapter 12 1880–1881: London and Vienna
- Chapter 13 1881–1882: Richter and d'Albert
- Chapter 14 1882: Richter and d'Albert
- Chapter 15 1882–1883: The Master's Death
- Chapter 16 1884: More Opera in London
- Chapter 17 1885–1886: Vienna, London and Birmingham
- Chapter 18 1887–1888 Return to Bayreuth
- Chapter 19 1889–1900: Vienna
- Chapter 20 1897–1900: Richter and Mahler
- Chapter 21 1889–1890: England
- Chapter 22 1891–1895: England
- Chapter 23 1895–1900: England
- Chapter 24 1890–1899: Bayreuth
- Chapter 25 1894–1899: Richter's Diary
- Chapter 26 1899–1900: Hallé Orchestra
- Chapter 27 1900–1902: England
- Chapter 28 1903–1904: England
- Chapter 29 1904–1906: England
- Chapter 30 1906–1908: England
- Chapter 31 1908–1909: England
- Chapter 32 1909–1911: England
- Chapter 33 1911–1914: Retirement
- Chapter 34 1914–1916: The Last Years
- Chapter 35 Finale
- HANS RICHTER'S CONDUCTING BOOKS
- Appendix 1 Works conducted by Hans Richter
- Appendix 2 Cities and towns where Richter conducted
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 16 - 1884: More Opera in London
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 April 2017
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Preface to the New Edition
- Chronology
- Chapter 1 1843–1865: Childhood and Years of Study
- Chapter 2 1866–1867: Tribschen
- Chapter 3 1868–1869: Munich
- Chapter 4 1870–1871: Brussels; Tribschen
- Chapter 5 1871–1874: Budapest
- Chapter 6 1874–1875: Budapest and Bayreuth
- Chapter 7 1875: Vienna
- Chapter 8 1876: Bayreuth
- Chapter 9 1877: London
- Chapter 10 1878–1879: Vienna
- Chapter 11 1879–1880: Friends and Enemies
- Chapter 12 1880–1881: London and Vienna
- Chapter 13 1881–1882: Richter and d'Albert
- Chapter 14 1882: Richter and d'Albert
- Chapter 15 1882–1883: The Master's Death
- Chapter 16 1884: More Opera in London
- Chapter 17 1885–1886: Vienna, London and Birmingham
- Chapter 18 1887–1888 Return to Bayreuth
- Chapter 19 1889–1900: Vienna
- Chapter 20 1897–1900: Richter and Mahler
- Chapter 21 1889–1890: England
- Chapter 22 1891–1895: England
- Chapter 23 1895–1900: England
- Chapter 24 1890–1899: Bayreuth
- Chapter 25 1894–1899: Richter's Diary
- Chapter 26 1899–1900: Hallé Orchestra
- Chapter 27 1900–1902: England
- Chapter 28 1903–1904: England
- Chapter 29 1904–1906: England
- Chapter 30 1906–1908: England
- Chapter 31 1908–1909: England
- Chapter 32 1909–1911: England
- Chapter 33 1911–1914: Retirement
- Chapter 34 1914–1916: The Last Years
- Chapter 35 Finale
- HANS RICHTER'S CONDUCTING BOOKS
- Appendix 1 Works conducted by Hans Richter
- Appendix 2 Cities and towns where Richter conducted
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Despite all six children contracting measles one after another from the end of November 1883, Hans and Marie spent Christmas en famille. There were Hofkapelle duties on Christmas Day and a midday concert the following day but the couple went alone to Hans’ home town of Raab for a short break before Don Giovanni on 29 December. Concerts in Vienna between the New Year of 1884 and the end of the season celebrated or featured musicians of lowlier rank than Brahms. The Second Serenade by Robert Fuchs formed the centrepiece of the concert on 6 January and was followed by a new symphony by Giovanni Sgambati, the eminent Italian pianist and pupil of Liszt. Ignaz Brüll was the soloist in his Second Piano Concerto on 20 January. Robert Volkmann had died in October 1883 and Rosa Papier sang ‘An die Nacht’ on 16 December in his memory, but a more substantial tribute was paid to the composer when his Second Symphony was played on 9 March. Stanford's Serenade ended the same concert, whilst the one on 23 March began with Mendelssohn's rarely played overture to his opera Camacho's Wedding. The final concert of the season (6 April) contained two other comparatively rare overtures, Spohr's Jessonda and Volkmann's Richard III. Volkmann was not the only colleague who died at that time; another was Gustav Hölzl, the first Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger at Munich in 1868. In February 1884 Gustav Weber also died; it was he who had bedecked the podium in Pest for Richter's final appearances there:
An honourable man and a warm, artistic friend. Wagner received from him the wild vines which decorate Wahnfried. When I left Pest I received a picture from him which showed all the dates of concerts I had given in Pest. We last saw one another at the Vienna performance of Tristan.
Another friend whose death he mourned was Louis Brassin (at St Petersburg on 17 May), to whom Richter was grateful for securing the Brussels Lohengrin engagement of 1870, when the young conductor's fortunes were low after the Rheingold affair.
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- Hans Richter , pp. 200 - 210Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2016