Pohlig, Karl

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Pohlig, Karl

Pohlig, Karl , German conductor; b. Teplitz, Feb. 10, 1858; d. Braunschweig, June 17, 1928. A pupil of Liszt in Weimar, Pest, and Rome, he began his career as a pianist, touring Germany, Austria, Russia, Scandinavia, and Italy. He became 1st Kapellmeister at Graz, then asst. conductor to Mahler at the Vienna Court Opera, and conductor at London’s Covent Garden (1897–98); was Ist Kapellmeister in Coburg and then in Stuttgart (1900–07). After serving as conductor of the Philadelphia Orch. (1907–12), he settled in Braunschweig as Generalmusikdirektor.

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