Joseph Wilhelm Mengelberg (28 March 1871 – 21 March 1951) was a Dutch conductor, famous for his performances of Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler and Strauss with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest symphonic conductors of the 20th century.
criticism of Mengelberg's influence over Dutch musical life, most clearly articulated by the composer Willem Pijper, was that Mengelberg did not particularly...
Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg Karel Mengelberg (1902–1984), Dutch composer and music writer, nephew of WillemMengelberg Käthe Bauer-Mengelberg (1894–1968),...
chief conductor, Willem Kes. Willem Kes served as the orchestra's chief conductor from its 1888 founding to 1895. In 1895, WillemMengelberg became chief...
Mengelberg was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, the son of the Dutch conductor Karel Mengelberg [nl] (1902-1984) and grand-nephew of conductor Willem Mengelberg...
employed guest conductors, including Victor Herbert, Édouard Colonne, WillemMengelberg, Fritz Steinbach, Richard Strauss, Felix Weingartner, and Henry Wood...
himself instead of leaving that honor to the respected dedicatee [i.e., WillemMengelberg] may well be viewed as further confirmation of the work's self-congratulatory...
politician Willem Maris (1844–1910), Dutch landscape painter Willem Meijer (1923–2003), Dutch botanist and plant collector WillemMengelberg (1871–1951)...
WillemMengelberg believed that the First Symphony was too mature to be a first symphonic work, and must have had predecessors. In 1938, Mengelberg revealed...
Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic under the direction of WillemMengelberg and Arturo Toscanini during the 1920s. Guidi studied at the Milan...
Conservatory under Jan Hřímalý. He played in the New York Philharmonic under WillemMengelberg, the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini, and the Stringwood...
1911–12 season. Elgar conducted six concerts, Arthur Nikisch three, and WillemMengelberg, Fritz Steinbach and Gustave Doret one each. As a conductor Elgar...
Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, assisting the famous conductor WillemMengelberg. He would remain there until his retirement in 1931. In recognition...
record these suites. Leading performers of classical music such as WillemMengelberg, Edwin Fischer, Georges Enescu, Herbert von Karajan, Helmut Walcha...
got him into trouble. After having presented his First Symphony to WillemMengelberg, whom he much admired, he was disdainfully rejected after a one-year...
into historical orchestral and chamber music, reissuing the work of WillemMengelberg, Serge Koussevitzky, Leopold Stokowski, Thomas Beecham, Max Fiedler...
unknown early Mahler works emerged when, in 1938, the Dutch conductor WillemMengelberg revealed the existence of an archive of manuscripts in Dresden, in...
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