Hans Richter (János Richter) (4 April 1843 – 5 December 1916) was an Austrian conductor.
Richter was born in Raab (now Győr), Hungary, and studied at the Vienna Conservatory. He had a particular interest in the horn, and developed his conducting career at several opera-houses in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He became associated with Richard Wagner in the 1860s, and in 1876 he was chosen to conduct the first complete performance of Wagner's Der Ri...
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Hans Richter (János Richter) (4 April 1843 – 5 December 1916) was an Austrian conductor.
Richter was born in Raab (now Győr), Hungary, and studied at the Vienna Conservatory. He had a particular interest in the horn, and developed his conducting career at several opera-houses in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He became associated with Richard Wagner in the 1860s, and in 1876 he was chosen to conduct the first complete performance of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
In 1877, he assisted the ailing composer as conductor of a major series of Wagner concerts in London, and from then onwards he became a familiar feature of English musical life, appearing at many choral festivals including as principal conductor of the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival (1885-1909) and directing the Hallé Orchestra (1899-1911) and the newly-formed London Symphony Orchestra (1904-1911). In Europe his work was chiefly based in Vienna, where (transcending the bitter division...
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