The last three were connected because a Swedish kapellmeister named Gustav Düben copied their music into a manuscript collection now at the Uppsala University Library. ❋ Charles T. Downey (2010)
Nevertheless, most of Caldara's huge output remains unexplored, including the 60-odd dramatic works that he composed during his time in Vienna as vice-kapellmeister to the Hapsburg court of Charles VI from 1716 until the end of his life. ❋ Andrew Clements (2010)
It is in the Schellinggasse and justifies itself by the possession of a very fine orchestra whose _militär-kapellmeister_ knows naught but inebriate _tanzmusik_. ❋ George Jean Nathan (1920)
And a great band, swung into the measures by a firm-bellied _kapellmeister_ as gorgeous in his pounds of gold braid as a peafowl, sets sail into ❋ George Jean Nathan (1920)
For a time he was a kind of assistant _kapellmeister_ to Haydn, and indeed many at that time thought his works were quite on a par with those of the great master, Beethoven. ❋ James Francis Cooke (1917)
After travelling for some time, Van der Stucken was appointed kapellmeister at the ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)
Buelow was appointed kapellmeister of the Court Theatre; reforms, peculiarly disagreeable to those reformed, were set on foot; and singers, players, regisseurs, who had anticipated sleeping away their existence in the good old fashion, were violently awakened by this reckless adventurer, charlatan, and what not, who had won the King's ear. ❋ Runciman, John F (1913)
He was an obscure German kapellmeister, and had never been conductor in a theatre which did not suffer bankruptcy or where something worse did not occur. ❋ Runciman, John F (1913)
He was appointed Court kapellmeister, and there he remained until 1849. ❋ Runciman, John F (1913)
We must remember the sort of music the Dresden public had suffered under: dull, workmanlike operas, without an original touch, without the breath of life in them -- in a word, kapellmeister music. ❋ John F. Runciman (1891)
Wagner did not wish to be kapellmeister -- on the contrary, wished most vigorously not to be kapellmeister. ❋ John F. Runciman (1891)
To be the wife of the kapellmeister of one of Germany's principal opera-houses -- a court opera-house -- that was almost, if not quite, as good; and for the time she rested content with her lot. ❋ John F. Runciman (1891)
That is, he would have saved us an appalling _longueur_ had he given us two minutes of frank recitative in place of twenty minutes of make-believe music -- music in the very finest kapellmeister style of the period. ❋ John F. Runciman (1891)
Bülow was appointed kapellmeister of the Court Theatre; reforms, peculiarly disagreeable to those reformed, were set on foot; and singers, players, _régisseurs_, who had anticipated sleeping away their existence in the good old fashion, were violently awakened by this reckless adventurer, charlatan, and what not, who had won the King's ear. ❋ John F. Runciman (1891)
So it was a bold move on the part of Riccardo Chailly, the orchestra's music director or kapellmeister, to give him his wonderfully antique title to play Russian and Italian music of the most full-blooded, theatrical, un-German kind. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We must remember the sort of music the Dresden public had suffered under: dull, workmanlike operas, without an original touch, without the breath of life in them ” in a word, kapellmeister music. ❋ Runciman, John F (1913)
Wagner did not wish to be kapellmeister ” on the contrary, wished most vigorously not to be kapellmeister. ❋ Runciman, John F (1913)
That is, he would have saved us an appalling longueur had he given us two minutes of frank recitative in place of twenty minutes of make-believe music ” music in the very finest kapellmeister style of the period. ❋ Runciman, John F (1913)
