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Mozart was never one of the Wiener Sängerknaben but Haydn and Schubert had their first musical training in the choir school as did Clemens Krauss, natural son of an Archduke and a ballet dancer, who now directs the Vienna Opera. Haydn and Schubert had to leave the choir when their voices broke. The Habsburgs would not have their boy sopranos castrated although that was common practice elsewhere in 17th and 18th Century Europe. With the fall of the Habsburgs the choir disbanded, but six years later Father Josef Schnitt, a priest at the Former Imperial Chapel, reorganized...
Richard Strauss's Le Bourgeois Gentil-homme by Conductor Clemens Krauss and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Victor, $6.50)?A Habsburg turned conductor gives keen edge to music of a rare, satirical cast...
Salzburg. Special music and drama, July 25-Aug. 30. Diversified programs will be directed by such famed men as Max Reinhardt, Arturo Toscanini, Ernst von Dohnanyi, Clemens Krauss, Franz Schalk, Bruno Walter...
...Toscanini. In Munich, the usual Wagner & Mozart Festival takes place from July 23 to August 31 at the Prince Regent and Residence Theatres. Musical events in Vienna and lower Austria from June 2 to 16 include ballets and serenades by the Vienna Philharmonic under Franz Schalk and Clemens Krauss; a concert by a choir of 8,000 in front of the City Hall; operettas of Strauss, Suppé, and Offenbach; church concerts in Modling (near Vienna) featuring Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. The Salzburg Festival, August 4 to 30, calls in the assistance of the Vienna Philharmonic. Beethoven...
Last week, in Manhattan, the most discussed musical arrival was Clemens Krauss of Vienna and Frankfort, one of the Continent's outstanding maestros, on his way to be guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. For luggage Conductor Krauss carried the latest novelty from Vienna, a specially constructed suitcase of aluminum and steel to hold music. Customs officers, prodding through his possessions, caused him annoyance by discovering some 250 dutiable cigars. Friends soothed him with the assurance that among Philadelphia's concertgoers is many a person able, alert and eager to send a distinguished new guest conductor some good...