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Felix Weingartner Conducts Beethoven, Berlioz, Weber by Felix Weingartner. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
6. Jan. 2015 · In 1902, at the Mainz Festival, Weingartner conducted all nine Beethoven symphonies. From 1907 to 1910 he was the Director of the Vienna Hofoper, succeeding Gustav Mahler; he retained the conductorship of the Vienna Philharmonic until 1927.
While some of the selections here are available elsewhere (the Beethoven on Naxos, the Brahms on EMI), this two-for-one midprice release in the Great Conductors series should burnish Weingartner’s reputation and attract wider interest.
In 1902, at the Festival of Mainz, Felix Weingartner conducted the complete symphonies of L.v. Beethoven. From 1908 to 1911 he was the principal conductor of the Vienna Hofoper succeeding Gustav Mahler ; he retained the conductorship of the Wiener Philharmoniker until 1927.
Weingartner was the first conductor to make commercial recordings of all nine Beethoven symphonies, and the second (to Leopold Stokowski in Philadelphia) to record all four Brahms symphonies. In 1935 he conducted the world premiere of Georges Bizet's long-lost Symphony in C.
Weingartner was much associated with Beethoven (even publishing a book, ‘On Conducting and On the Performance of Beethoven’s Symphonies’) so it is entirely apt that the set begins with two works by the Master.
Weingartner’s cycle of the Beethoven Symphonies – the first to be made – was an ad hoc affair.
