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Felix Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg ( June 2 1863 – May 7 1942 ) was a Conductor , Composer and Pianist . Weingartner was born in the Dalmatia n city of Zara (today Zadar ) to Austrian parents, and the family moved to Graz in 1868 . From 1908 till 1927 he was the principal conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the finest in the world and the most prominent in Austria. Besides several other operas Weingartner wrote seven Symphonies (being recorded by ''cpo - classic production osnabrück'', Osnabrück , Germany), a sinfonietta, concertos for Violin and for Cello , orchestral works, at least four String Quartet s, Quintet s for strings and for piano with clarinet (as with Franz Schmidt ) and other pieces. His musical style partakes somewhat more of early Romanticism than of its later developments, to say nothing of modernism. As a conductor Weingartner recorded perhaps the first complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies on record; he also wrote books on conducting, on Beethoven's symphonies and on the symphony since Beethoven, and editions of individual works of Gluck , Wagner and others, and a large edition of Berlioz . Before Brian Newbould 's more recent work he reconstructed Schubert's Symphony in E major, D. 729 in a version that received some performances and recordings; he also arranged works by a number of early Romantic masters for orchestral performance. Among his students as a conductor were Paul Sacher , Georg Tintner and Josef Krips .
WORKS Symphonies
Operas
Some material from ''Grove 6''. FURTHER READING
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