Hans Von Bülow
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Hans Guido Freiherr von Bülow (January 8, 1830-1894) was a German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer of the Romantic period.
Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms were two of the nineteenth century's most influential conductors, including Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms.
Bülow was certainly one of the early students of Hungarian virtuoso pianist, conductor, and composer Franz Liszt, and he appeared in the first public performance of Liszt's Sonata in B minor in 1857 alongside Carl Tausig.
He became acquainted with, fell in love, and then married Liszt's daughter Cosima, who later left him for Wagner.
He was known for his interpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven's works, making him one of the first European musicians to tour the United States.
Life and career
Bülow was born in Dresden to members of the influential Bülow family. He started as a student at University Friedrich Wieck (the father of Clara Schumann). However, his parents insisted that he study law rather than music, and his parents took him to Leipzig. Franz Liszt, and after hearing some Richard Wagner's music, particularly Lohengrin's premiere in 1850, he decided to defy his parents' and pursue his career in music instead. He studied piano in Leipzig with the renowned pedagogue Louis Plaidy. He began his first conducting job in Zurich on Wagner's advice in 1850.
Bülow had a strong acerbic demeanor and a loose tongue; this alienated many musicians with whom he worked. He was suspended from his Zurich work for this reason, but he was also known for his ability to do new and difficult jobs without scoring. He became a pupil of Liszt in 1851, marrying his daughter Cosima in 1857. They had two daughters, Daniela, born in 1860, and Blandina, born in 1863. He was a pianist, conductor, and writer in the 1850s and early 1900s, and his reputation in Germany as well as Russia rose. He premiered Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor in Berlin in 1857.
He began as Hofkapellmeister in Munich in 1864, and it was at this position that he obtained his principal renown. In 1865 and 1868 respectively, he conducted the premieres of two Wagner operas, Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; both were hugely successful. During the meantime, Cosima had been involved with Richard Wagner and gave birth to their daughter Isolde in 1865. Eva was their second daughter two years ago, and they had another baby, Eva. Although Cosima and Wagner's affair was now revealed, Bülow refused to give his wife a divorce. The conductor at last relented only after she gave birth to a third child, Siegfried. They divorced in 1870, shortly after Cosima and Wagner married. Bülow never spoke to Wagner again, and he didn't get to see his ex wife for 11 years after he had been in the hospital for 11 years. However, he continued to honor the composer on a professional level, as he still did his experiments and mourned Wagner's death in 1883. He married actress Marie Schanzer in July 1882.
Bülow, a native of Munich, became the head of the newly reopened Königliche Musikschule in 1867. He taught piano there in Liszt's style. He served as the conservator of the Conservatory until 1869. Asger Hamerik and Joseph Pache were among Bülow's students in Berlin.
Bülow, in addition to promoting Wagner's music, was a promoter of Brahms and Tchaikovsky's music. In the world premiere of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, he appeared solo. In Boston in 1875, there was one in a B-flat minor. He was also a fan of Frédéric Chopin's music; he left epithets for all of Chopin's Opus 28 Preludes, but they had since been discarded. On the other hand, the D-flat major Prelude No. 10 has been issued. The 15th of "Raindrop" is a common word.
He was the first to perform (from memory) Beethoven's complete cycle of sonatas, and with Sigmund Lebert, he co-produced a copy of the sonatas.
He was appointed conductor of the orchestral subscription concerts at Glasgow's newly opened St Andrew's Hall, touring with their orchestra to repeat these performances in other Scottish cities for the winter season 1877-1878. The recently updated Brahms Symphony No. 1 was one of the works he did there.
He was Hofkapellmeister in Hanover from 1878 to 1880, but was forced to leave due to a tenor's role in "Knight of the Swan [Schwan] in Lohengrin; Bülow had dubbed him the "Knight of the Swine [Schwein]," but Bülow had nicknamed him the "Knight of the Swine [Schwein]. He moved to Meiningen, Germany, where he took the same job and turned the Meiningen Court Orchestra into one of Germany's best; among his other requests, he insisted that the musicians learn to play all of their parts from memory.
Richard Strauss first met him in Meiningen during his five years as mayor (though the meeting took place in Berlin). His initial impression of the young composer was unfavorable, but when he was presented with a sample of Strauss' "Serenade," he changed his mind. Strauss' first regular job as a conductor came later. Bülow, as Strauss, was attracted to Max Stirner's theories, who reportedly had not met him personally. Bülow's last performance with the Berlin Philharmonic in April 1892, where he had been performing as Principal Conductor since 1887, was "exalting" Stirner's ideas. Stirner's biographer, John Henry Mackay, arranged a memorial plaque at his last home in Berlin.
The introduction of the five-string bass and the pedal timpani, among other orchestral innovations, has since been included in the symphony orchestra. His precise, sensitive, and remarkably musical interpretations positioned him as the prototype of the virtuo conductors who flourished at a later date. He was also an astute and witty literary journalist.
He stayed in Hamburg in the late 1880s but went on tour, both playing and performing on the piano.
Bülow suffered with persistent neuralgiforme headaches, which were attributed to a tumor of the cervical radicular nerves. His mental and physical health began to decline in 1890, and he sought a cooler, drier environment for recovery; he died in a Cairo, Egypt hotel at the age of 64, just 10 months after his last concert appearance.
