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May 23, 2018 · From 1931 to 1933 Böhm held the post of Generalmusikdirektor of the Hamburg Opera; from 1934 to 1943 he was music director of the Dresden State Opera, where he gave the first performances of Die Schweigsame Frau (June 24, 1935) and Daphne (Oct. 15, 1938), which Strauss dedicated to him.
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This week marked the 30th anniversary of the death of Karl Böhm. We looked through the Gramophone archive and found this interview with the legendary Austrian conductor from 1972 when the music critic Alan Blyth sought out Böhm in Salzburg.
Apr 17, 2024 · Böhm became musical director at Darmstadt in 1927, at Hamburg in 1931, and at Dresden in 1934. He made his London debut at Covent Garden in 1936. Böhm came under public criticism for taking the Dresden position because he had replaced Fritz Busch, who had been forced to resign by the Nazis; Böhm replaced Bruno Walter at Salzburg in 1938 ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Born in Graz in 1894, the conductor had begun his career at the opera house there and was appointed General Music Director in Hamburg in 1931, after stations in Munich and Darmstadt. Under his directorship, Darmstadt and Hamburg developed into centres of contemporary music.
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The excerpt includes the Waltz sequence from the Rosenkavalier Suite from 1938, and the Finale from the opera Daphne, sung by soprano Margarete Teschemacher in the title role from 1939. Böhm speaks in German, but an English transcription can be found in the booklet.
