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  Karl Muck - Biography - AOL Music
Karl Muck was born in Darmstadt, Germany, on October 22, 1859.
Karl studied piano with Kissner in Würzburg, but when he went for his university training, he elected to take classic academic studies, studying philology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Leipzig.
Muck gained a reputation as natural leader, able to impose his discipline on an orchestra quickly and achieve intelligent, tasteful, and highly musical performances.
music.aol.com /artist/karl-muck/190320/biography   (769 words)

  
 INKPOT#88 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: WAGNER The Complete Karl Muck Parsifal Recordings. Various/Muck (Naxos Historical)
Karl Muck is the nearest we have to a direct Wagner link, mainly through his relationship with Wagner's widow, Cosima.
Muck's conducting of the prelude is very slow (in my experience only Toscanini has been slower on a 1930s BBC recording, although that performance lacks mystery).
Karl Muck offers unique insights into this work in recordings that are very serviceable, and require minimal adjustment for the listener.
inkpot.com /classical/wparsifalmuck.html   (1316 words)

  
 Karl Bohm - Biography - AOL Music
One of the most acclaimed operatic and orchestral conductors of his generation, Karl Bohm was one of the most influential musicians and recording artists in the postwar classical world.
Among those in attendance at the performance was Karl Muck, one of the leading conductors of the day, famed at the time for his work at Bayreuth as well as with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Muck offered to train Bohm further in Wagner's music, and the younger man spent his apprenticeship with Muck working on the Ring cycle, Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde, and Meistersinger.
music.aol.com /artist/karl-bohm/170266/biography   (1980 words)

  
 Wagner: The Complete Karl Muck Parsifal Recordings, Orchestral Suite, etc / Muck
Karl Muck (1859-1940), one of the greatest Wagnerian conductors of the generation immediately following those who knew and worked directly with the master, was responsible for leading the performances of Parsifal at Bayreuth from 1901 until 1930.
It contains Muck's accounts of the Prelude to Act I and a sizable amount of Act III, recorded with the chorus and orchestra of the Berlin State Opera, and of excerpts from Acts I and II, recorded with the chorus and orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival.
Muck sustains the prelude as if on a single breath, just at the point where the pulse almost disappears; the music seems to arise out of silence and darkness to become light and spirit.
www.link-web.net /music_review_52/wagner_the_complete_karl_muck_parsifal_recordings.html   (465 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Wagner: Overtures & Preludes: Music: Richard Wagner,Karl Muck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Muck occupies an interpretive place midway between the emotional and spiritual generosity of a Furtwängler and the intensity of a Toscanini; these are straightforward, stylish readings enlivened with little personal touches that bring the music to life.
Karl Muck was a member of the first generation of conductors since Wagner himself that took a literal approach to a score (Toscanini and Weingartner among others).
Muck's renditions are very objective and uneccentric, but that could also be because the orchestra is just not capable of playing the music except on a very basic level (I have heard youth orchestras that are better than this).
www.amazon.com /Wagner-Overtures-Preludes-Karl-Muck/dp/B00006B1KC   (1031 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Parsifal: Music: Richard Wagner,Alfred Hertz,Karl Muck,Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra,Berlin State Opera ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Karl Muck (1859--1940), one of the greatest Wagnerian conductors of the generation immediately following those who knew and worked directly with the master, was responsible for leading the performances of Parsifal at Bayreuth from 1901 until 1930.
Karl Muck was one of the great Wagner conductors, with an uncanny feel for Wagner's music (and a resemblance to the composer that was so uncanny that people thought that he was Wagner's illegitimate son!).
On the 6th track of the first disc, Muck conducts the Transformation Music for the Grail Scene in Act I. In that scene you hear the bells that Wagner had constructed for the first performances of Parsifal at his own theater at Bayreuth (where these recordings were made).
www.amazon.ca /Parsifal-Richard-Wagner/dp/B000026C8I   (1649 words)

  
 Karl Muck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Generalmusikdirektor Karl Muck, langjähriger Dirigent der Bayreuther Festspiele, Ehrenbürger.
Nach Bayreuth kam Dr. Karl Muck als Dirigent zum ersten mal im Jahre 1901, um mit Hans Richter, Felix Mottl und Siegfried Wagner die Orchesterleitung zu übernehmen.
Muck wurde die musikalische Leitung des "Parsival" übertragen, der Oper Richard Wagners, mit der Muck sich immer "am innigsten verbunden fühlte".
www.bnbt.de /~tr1035/bt/wer/karlmuck.htm   (507 words)

  
 Sympathy for Karl Rove @ daily FISK... a humorous look at the news, politics and opinionators of our day
Karl Rove, without judgement, gives generous cover to all who come, and greatly is he loved.
Karl, pierced and bleeding, is hauled back and forth to a grand jury a preposterous four times, but finds the strength for swordplay, defending now the president, himself, and his government from inside assaults by his own people, the so-called Christians--he made these people!
Karl should count himself blessed to be the brunt of yur pen.
dailyfisk.blogspot.com /2005/10/sympathy-for-karl-rove.html   (957 words)

  
 Muck's Wagner
Muck was born in 1859—a year before Mahler—and lived 81 years.
Muck was more, however, than a martinet; he was a "modern" conductor, who brooked no Schlamperei—and was so before Toscanini put his oar in the water.
Listening to Muck again after 16 years, it strikes me that Fritz Reiner's tuition-by-observation of his countryman Artur Nikisch (1855-1922) may have been a technical revelation, but Muck was surely as influential (and possibly more) in respect to musicianship and interpretation.
classicalcdreview.com /muck.htm   (829 words)

  
 Reissue CDs, NOV02, Pt. 2 - AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
Karl Muck (1859-1940), along with Arthur Nikisch and Felix Weingartner, belong to the older Germanic tradition, where the lean, athletic and largely unsentimental approach to Wagner is the rule.
Muck found his way to Bayreuth in 1892, where his interpretations of the Ring cycle gained prominence; but in 1901 he led what became his calling card, Parsifal.
Muck was ever the tough, durable conductor, well prepared and often volatile in performance.
www.audaud.com /audaud/NOV02/REISSUES/recds2NOV02.html   (2868 words)

  
 Karl Muck / Oscar Fried / Nathan Milstein / Bartok Quartets / Vegh Quartet
Karl Muck / Oscar Fried / Nathan Milstein / Bartok Quartets / Vegh Quartet
(So, which follow, are Karl Muck’s 1927-29 Berlin recordings.) A friend provided me with Lys’ remastering of a 1937 Soviet recording of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique with the USSR State Symphony Orchestra, created for Fried, who fled east (rather then west) in 1934 when the Nazis began their anti-Jewish pogrom.
The Muck (rhymes with “look”) disc is generous, but it duplicates the contents of previous collections from Centaur, Preiser, Opal, Pearl, and especially Naxos, which is missing only the “Funeral Music” from Götterdämmerung included here (because it ran too long).
classicalcdreview.com /kmrd.html   (1297 words)

  
 Today in German History
He was taken to Vienna to study music at age 10.
An orchestra conductor, Muck attained the reputation of master of the music of Richard Wagner.
Just before the outbreak of WWI Muck had become the director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
www.germanculture.com.ua /october/oct22.htm   (394 words)

  
 Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
Karl Muck (1859-1940) was chiefly regarded as a Wagner specialist, particularly for his conducting of Parsifal.
The recordings preserve the imposing sonority of the bells that were built to Wagner's specification for the opera's 1882 premiere, and destroyed during World War II.
Few modern singers match the relaxed authority Hofmann and Pistor respectively bring to Gurnemanz and Parsifal's sprawling vocal lines, and Brongeest is an Amfortas who bears his suffering with a modicum of dignity.
www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=322   (300 words)

  
 Decca Music Group - Karl Böhm
Karl Böhm enjoyed the musical and personal friendship of some of the most important fellow performers and composers of the 20th century.
He was especially close to Richard Strauss who dedicated his opera Daphne to Böhm (a fine DGG recording has never left the catalogue).
Munich was the next stop in 1921 where Bruno Walter and Karl Muck were in charge and Böhm acknowledged a debt to both men throughout his career.
www.deccaclassics.com /artists/bohm/biog.html   (227 words)

  
 Classical Net Review - Wagner - Parsifal
Karl Muck (1859-1940) spent part of the 1910s as chief conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but he returned to Germany at the end of World War One.
Bass Alexander Kipnis (Gurnemanz) and Fritz Wolff (Parsifal) were engaged for the Good Friday Spell, but Muck angrily backed down from conducting this scene when he was told that it would have to be split across three sides.
Muck subsequently recorded the opera's Prélude and a large portion of Act III in the following year, this time for HMV, and at the Berlin State Opera instead of at Bayreuth.
www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/n/nxs10049a.html   (820 words)

  
 We Have Sung It in Many Languages
His sin was not that he wrote a discordant arrangement of the tune.
In 1918 the German native allegedly refused to lead the orchestra in a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner.
Muck claimed that the piece was left off the program because musically it was not in accord with the serious compositions scheduled.
www.hnn.us /articles/24658.html   (853 words)

  
 Felix Weingartner: Biography and Recordings
Orchestral recordings of those born before him are either sonically very restricted - Nikisch (1855) is here the obvious instance - or limited in the scope of repertoire captured.
For example, the records of Kajanus (1856) are confined almost wholly to Sibelius; those issued of Karl Muck (1859) contain little other than Wagner; Max Fiedler (1859) recorded nothing but Brahms; and Franz Schalk (May 1863) a mere handful of works by Beethoven and Schubert.
Gaps there may be in Weingartner's recorded repertoire, in particular next to nothing of the Schubert and Schumann of which he was a renowned exponent in the concert hall.
www.geocities.com /perofoslo/Weingartner/index.html   (191 words)

  
 Karl Muck - The Electrical Wagner Recordings for Orchestra 1927-1928 (2 CDs)
Karl Muck: The Electrical Wagner Recordings for Orchestra (1927-1928)
Karl Muck, the great Wagnerian who performed at every Bayreuth Festival for three decades, conducts Siegfried Idyll and music from Der fliegende Holländer, Götterdämmerung, Tannhäuser, Die Meistersinger, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal.
With the Berlin State Opera Orchestra and the 1927 Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus.
www.vaimusic.com /CD/1118-2.htm   (81 words)

  
 TPMmuckraker June 14, 2006 08:32 AM
Heckuva job, reps! Amid some of the worst corruption scandals in modern memory, the House of Representatives voted to give each member a $3,300 pay raise.
Karl Rove's Spokesman Denies Any Deal For Cooperation
Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) wants a Congressional investigation into Karl Rove's involvement in the CIA leak scandal.
www.tpmmuckraker.com /archives/000897.php   (918 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Wagner: The Complete Karl Muck Parsifal Recordings, Orchestral Suite, etc / Muck: Music: Cornelis ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Conductor: Alexander Kipnis, Ludwig Hoffmann, Alfred Hertz, Karl Muck, Siegfried Wagner
Having gotten used to Levine's wonderful recording from the Met with its polished sound quality and mindblowing soloists, I was quite shocked and surprised to have tears running down my cheeks listening to Karl Muck's recordings here.
I'm going to leave it to the experts to explain why and how Muck achieves this, all I can say is that listening to this recording leaves me startled and in total respect of these old masters!
www.amazon.com /Wagner-Complete-Parsifal-Recordings-Orchestral/dp/B000026C8I   (1880 words)

  
 Dorothy Holcomb on Philip Greeley Clapp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The first was his mother, Florence Greeley Clapp, "an excellent singer who was broadly educated in all the arts"; the second, Dr. Karl Muck, the conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1906 to 1908 and from 1912 to 1918.
Clapp wrote that on one occasion when he asked Dr. Muck bow he could repay him in even a small measure for all that he had done for him, be answered, "Pass it on to the next generation."[1]
After receiving the Ph.D. in music from Harvard in 1911, he studied in Europe with Max von Schillings and in Boston under Karl Muck, conductor of the Boston Symphony.
www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/Bai/holcomb.htm   (4059 words)

  
 Our discordant anthem - Los Angeles Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Music critic Albert Goldberg noted that Stravinsky's version was banned in Boston and booed in Baltimore, but the composer escaped sanctions.
His sin was not that he wrote a discordant arrangement.
During World War I, the German native allegedly refused to lead the orchestra in a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Muck claimed that the piece was left off the program because musically it was not in accord with the serious compositions scheduled.
www.latimes.com /news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-shaffer2may02,0,7315.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions   (578 words)

  
 Muck Products   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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 Historic Opera -  Bayreuth - Composite Postcards
Singers on the lower row: Van Dyck and Wiegand; Materna and Van Dyck; van Dyck.
Notice how they are identical except for the conductors in the upper right, who were appearing during those particular Festival years.
Bulow, Hans Richter, Hermann Levi, Felix Mottl, Karl Klindworth, Karl Muck.
www.historicopera.com /jthumb_bayreuth_composite_page.htm   (256 words)

  
 CMS 2005 National Conference - Abstracts
Karl Muck, Americanist: American Composers at the Boston Symphony Orchestra 1881-1919
From its founding in 1881, the Boston Symphony Orchestra was filled almost exclusively with German musicians, and led by German conductors.
Perhaps most ironically, Karl Muck, the conductor remembered mostly as an arch-Wagnerian, the conductor arrested and imprisoned as an enemy alien during the war, may have been at this time one of the best friends an American composer could have, compiling the most extensive and impressive repertory of performances in this survey.
www.music.org /html/2005abstracts/freeman.html   (233 words)

  
 American Composers Orchestra - David Raksin Remembers His Colleagues
A year later he gave his first recital, and soon some kind friends brought him to the attention of the great Polish pianist, Sigismond Stojowski, who offered him a scholarship.
Before long, Alfred had won a silver medal and a gold medal in a competition; among the judges were the German conductor Karl Muck and the renowned composer/ pianist Ferruccio Busoni.
But, prodigy or not, there was no escaping hard reality: Al's father could not find work, and the boy had to earn a living for his family.
www.americancomposers.org /raksin_newman.htm   (1300 words)

  
 TPMmuckraker June 13, 2006 07:50 AM
The prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case on Monday advised Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, that he would not be charged with any wrongdoing, effectively ending the nearly three-year criminal investigation that had at times focused intensely on Mr.
The decision by the prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, announced in a letter to Mr.
Rove who testified on five occasions to a federal grand jury about his involvement in the disclosure of an intelligence officer's identity.
www.tpmmuckraker.com /archives/000888.php   (1290 words)

  
 Parsifal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
After recording the prelude to act I in 1927, Muck turned to act III in the following year.
It is very intesting because of its conductor, Karl Muck, who was in the pit of the Festspielhaus for a long time, especially in the case of Parsifal.
This third act is the first major attempt to record a major part of Parsifal on 78rpm discs with a consistent cast and the only one, too.
wwwsys.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de /weber1/opera/shellac/pars28/pars28.htm   (122 words)

  
 Boston Symphony Trombone Quartet - 1906 Victor Recordings
With its distinguished music directors (including Karl Muck, Pierre Monteux, Serge Koussevitzky, Charles Munch, Erich Leinsdorf, Seiji Ozawa and, now, James Levine) and acoustically acclaimed concert hall (Symphony Hall, built in 1900), the BSO has been at the center of Boston's musical life for a century and a quarter.
The first recordings of the orchestra were made in 1917 under the direction of Karl Muck.
In recent years, we have become aware of several recordings that were made in 1912 featuring some members of the BSO including its then principal violin and clarinet players.
www.yeodoug.com /articles/1906/1906.html   (2770 words)

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