Charles Michael Schwab
Charles Michael Schwab , 1862-1939, American steel magnate, b. Williamsburg, Pa. He started as a stake driver in Andrew Carnegie's steelworks and rose to become (1897) president of the Carnegie Steel Company and then the first president (1901) of the U.S. Steel Corp. He resigned (1903) to run the Bethlehem Steel Company, which under his direction became the largest independent producer in the field.
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Egmont: Overture. Symphony No. 5/Der Freischütz: Overture. Oberon: Overture/Le nozze di Figaro: Overture/Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 * Arthur Nikisch, cond; Berlin PO;1 London...differing ways. One of these was Arthur Nikisch, the subject of this release...string sound on the entire set. Arthur Nikisch (1855-1922) was generally...
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Interview: Joseph Horowitz discusses his new book "Classical Music in America: A History of its Rise and Fall"
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 4/27/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...amazing and little-known fact that Arthur Nikisch, who later became the most eminent...years of the Boston Symphony. Nikisch came to Boston and created a furor...The reason for this furor is that Nikisch conducted Beethoven's 5th differently...
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From the Musical Times, June 1901
Magazine article from: Musical Times; 7/1/2001; ; 429 words
; ...illustration of this phenomenon is furnished by Herr Arthur Nikisch [...] It is impossible to entirely acquit this otherwise...interpretation of the 'Pathetic' Symphony on the part of Herr Nikisch, one could not help feeling that the importance of...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Herbert von Karajan: A Life in Music.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/5/1998; 700+ words
; ...at least, not compared to two idols of his youth, Arthur Nikisch and (now all-but-forgotten) Ernst von Schuch...classic school for outstanding conductors from Mahler, Nikisch and Bruno Walter right through to Solti. Not any more...
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The Lights of London Town
Magazine article from: Strings; 6/1/2005; ; 694 words
; ...The Centennial Set (1904-2004). Conductors: Arthur Nikisch, Hamilton Harty, Bruno Walter, Josef Krips, Pierre...recording: Weber's "Oberon" Overture, conducted by Nikisch in 1914. Sound and style are antique, the fast passages...
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The play's the thing
Magazine article from: Musical Times; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...like this. Few people nowadays would wish to imitate Arthur Nikisch's epoch-making performance of Beethoven's Fifth...fluctuations of tempo which characterise it. Although Nikisch starts the first movement with a tempo which sounds...
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Grand Gewandhaus; Leipzig has musical connections to Boston
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 11/8/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...In the lobby of the New Gewandhaus concert hall photographs of past conductors include Arthur Nikisch. Before directing the Leipzig orchestra, Nikisch conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1889- 1893. And of course there is a portrait...
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A well-conducted look at `Maestros'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/24/1995; ; 652 words
; ...emerge as cold. The earliest of the conductors, glimpsed on a bit of silent film, is Arthur Nikisch, with his lordly wielding of a long baton; Nikisch, the father of all modern conducting, was music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
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The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the trail for these nine to follow: Hans von Bulow, Arthur Nikisch, Gustav Mahler, Felix Wein-gartner, Richard Strauss...their technique and musical interpretations. (Although Nikisch's film debut is from the silent era, documentary...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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RELEASE BY KOREAN VIOLINIST PRESAGES CONCERTOS AT BOULDER FEST.(Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 8/4/1996; 700+ words
; ...early, scratchy (but still gripping) performances by Arthur Nikisch to modern, state-of-the-art (but equally exciting...versions of the Beethoven Fifth first movement, from Nikisch to Klemperer. An invaluable music lesson. This is...
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Arthur Nikisch
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Arthur Nikisch , 1855-1922, Hungarian conductor and violinist, grad. Vienna Conservatory, 1873. He played in Wagner's orchestra at the...
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Nikisch, Arthur
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Nikisch, Arthur ( b Lébényi Szent-Miklós, 1855; d Leipzig, 1922). Hung. conductor and violinist. Child prodigy...
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Leipzig
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...x2013;54), Anton Seidl (1878–80), Arthur Nikisch (1879–89), Gustav Mahler (1886...there 1879. New Gewandhaus opened 1884. Conds. were Arthur Nikisch (1895–1922), Furtwängler...
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...conductors have included Sir George Henschel (1881-84), Arthur Nikisch (1889-93), Karl Muck (1906-08; 1912-18...its present title since 1900, has been conducted by Arthur Fiedler (1930-79), John Williams (1980-93...
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Boult, Adrian Cedric
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...to the Leipzig Conservatorium in Germany, where in 1912 he studied under composer Max Reger and eminent conductor Arthur Nikisch. He returned to Oxford to take his bachelor's in music examination in 1913 and received his master's degree from...
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