Hans Richter (conductor)

Hans Richter (conductor)

Hans Richter (4 April 1843 in Raab, today Győr, Hungary as János Richter, died 5 December 1916 in Bayreuth) was an Austrian-Hungarian conductor. Richter studied at the Vienna Conservatory with 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.

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;Further reading
* Christopher Fifield. Foreword by Georg Solti. "True Artist and True Friend: A Biography of Hans Richter." Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-19816-157-3. (The title is from Elgar's dedication of his Symphony No. 1.)


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