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Anton Seidl (7 May 1850 – 28 March 1898) was a Hungarian
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
 conductor
Conducting

Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
.

He was born at Budapest
Budapest

Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
, and entered the Leipzig Conservatory
Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre

The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy? Leipzig is a public university in Leipzig . Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music, it is the oldest College or university school of music in Germany and one of the most famous ones in Europe....
 in October 1870, remaining there until 1872, when he was summoned to Bayreuth
Bayreuth

Bayreuth is a city in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Frankish Alb and the Fichtelgebirge. It is the capital of Oberfranken and has a population of 73,048 citizens ....
 as one of Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
's copyists. There he assisted in making the first fair copy of Der Ring des Nibelungen
Der Ring des Nibelungen

Der Ring des Nibelungen is a literature cycle of four epic poetry music dramas by the Germany composer Richard Wagner. The operas are based loosely on characters from the Sagas and the Nibelungenlied....
. Thoroughly imbued with the Wagnerian spirit, it was natural that he should take a part in the first Bayreuth Festival
Bayreuth Festival

The Bayreuth Festival is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner are presented....
 in 1876.

His chance as a conductor came when, on Wagner's recommendation, he was appointed to the Leipzig State Theater, where he remained until, in 1882, he went on tour with Angelo Neumann's Nibelungen Ring company.






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Anton Seidl (7 May 1850 – 28 March 1898) was a Hungarian
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
 conductor
Conducting

Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
.

He was born at Budapest
Budapest

Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
, and entered the Leipzig Conservatory
Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre

The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy? Leipzig is a public university in Leipzig . Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music, it is the oldest College or university school of music in Germany and one of the most famous ones in Europe....
 in October 1870, remaining there until 1872, when he was summoned to Bayreuth
Bayreuth

Bayreuth is a city in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Frankish Alb and the Fichtelgebirge. It is the capital of Oberfranken and has a population of 73,048 citizens ....
 as one of Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
's copyists. There he assisted in making the first fair copy of Der Ring des Nibelungen
Der Ring des Nibelungen

Der Ring des Nibelungen is a literature cycle of four epic poetry music dramas by the Germany composer Richard Wagner. The operas are based loosely on characters from the Sagas and the Nibelungenlied....
. Thoroughly imbued with the Wagnerian spirit, it was natural that he should take a part in the first Bayreuth Festival
Bayreuth Festival

The Bayreuth Festival is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner are presented....
 in 1876.

His chance as a conductor came when, on Wagner's recommendation, he was appointed to the Leipzig State Theater, where he remained until, in 1882, he went on tour with Angelo Neumann's Nibelungen Ring company. To his conducting the critics attributed much of such artistic success as attended the production of the Trilogy at her Majesty's Theatre
Her Majesty's Theatre

Her Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre, located in the Haymarket, in the City of Westminster. The present building was designed by Charles J....
 in London in June of that year.

In 1883 Seidl went with Neumann to Bremen, but two years later was appointed successor to Leopold Damrosch
Leopold Damrosch

Leopold Damrosch was a German American orchestral Conducting....
 as conductor of the German Opera Company in New York City
New York City

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, and in the same year he married Auguste Kraus, the distinguished singer. He became conductor of the New York Philharmonic
New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active symphony orchestra in the United States, organized during 1842. Based in New York City, the Philharmonic performs most of its concerts at Avery Fisher Hall....
 in 1891 where he remained until is death in 1898.

Further reading

  • Finck, Henry Theophilus
    Henry Theophilus Finck

    Henry Theophilus Finck was an United States musical critic, born at Bethel, Missouri, and raised in Portland, Oregon, where he was taught piano and Cello....
     and Krehbiel, Henry Edward
    Henry Edward Krehbiel

    Henry Edward Krehbiel was an American music critic and musicologist.Krehbiel was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received a general education from his father, a German clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and began in 1872 the study of law in Cincinnati, Ohio....
    . . New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1899. Reprinted New York : Da Capo Press, 1983. ISBN 0-306-76144-0.