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Austrian music critic (1860–1945)
Julius Korngold
Julius Korngold 1911 (Left)
Born Julius Leopold Gagnon
(1860-12-22 ) 22 December 1860Died 20 September 1945(1945-09-20) (aged 84) Occupation Music Critic Years active 1904-1934 Children
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Julius Leopold Korngold (24 December 1860 – 25 September 1945) was an Austrian
music critic .
[1] He was the leading critic in early twentieth century
Vienna , serving as
chief music critic of the
Neue Freie Presse from 1904 to 1934. His son was the composer
Erich Wolfgang Korngold , whom he named after
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , one of his favorite composers.
[2]
Life and career
He was the father of composer
Erich Wolfgang Korngold .
[3] He co-wrote the
libretto of the
opera
Die tote Stadt with his son (under the collective
pseudonym Paul Schott).
[4] He died in
Hollywood , California on 25 September 1945.
[5]
In his time, he was known as the "dean of European music critics".
[5] He is most notable for championing the works of
Gustav Mahler at a time when many did not think much of him.
[6]
[7]
References
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"Julius Korngold" . Oxford Reference . Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ Sillitoe, Stuart.
"Korngold Claves 50-1808" . MusicWeb International. Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ Carroll, Brendan G. (2020) [2001].
"Korngold, Erich Wolfgang" .
Grove Music Online . Oxford:
Oxford University Press .
doi :
10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.3000000199 .
ISBN
9781561592630 . (subscription or
UK public library membership required)
^ Carroll, Brendan; G.Pauly, Reinhard G., The Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Amadeus Press, Portland, 1997, p.121-3
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a
b
"JULIUS KORNGOLD, NOTED MUSIC CRITIC; Dean of European Experts Is Dead in Hollywood--Wrote for Vienna Newspaper" .
The New York Times . 27 September 1945. Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ Loomis, George (4 January 2008).
"Erich Wolfgang Korngold: A composer returns to the limelight" .
The New York Times . Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ Haas, Michael (3 September 2021).
"Julius Korngold's Article on "The Modern" in Music, 1901: Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler" . forbiddenmusic.org . Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
Further reading
Antonicek: "
Korngold Julius Leopold ". In:
Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 4,
Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 1969, p. 132.
Poole, Marian (2009).
"Making Korngold: Korngold, Schoenberg and the Neues Wiener Tagblatt Poll, Vienna, 1930" (PDF) . Context . 33 : 97–106.
Giger, Andreas (Autumn 1998). "A Matter of Principle: The Consequences for Korngold's Career".
The Journal of Musicology . 16 (4).
University of California Press : 545–564.
doi :
10.2307/763982 .
JSTOR
763982 .
Haas, Michael (2013).
"Mahler and His Chronicler Julius Korngold" .
Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis . New Haven:
Yale University Press .
doi :
10.12987/9780300154313 .
ISBN
978-0-300-15431-3 .
Holzer, Georg (28 March 2019).
"The Child Prodigy Korngold Conquers Munich" . Takt1 .
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