Footnotes: To eliminate the depressing
spectacle of screens full of Ibid.
and Op. Cit., all biographical data,
unless otherwise noted, comes from either Hausegger’s Betrachtungen Zur Kunst (BzK), or
from a copy of a radio speech of
Cueline:
Why Siegmund von Hausegger
up and coming…H. T. Finck:
Richard Strauss: The Man and His Works, p. 59. (Among “our smaller composers”
Strauss mentions are Pfitzner and – Mahler!)
Brief biography
Music As
Expression…Theo Schäfer: Jean-Louis Nicodé, p. 4
credits Friedrich von Hausegger’s view on music as having triumphed
Wagnerously ponderous…Nicholas
Slonimsky: Music Since 1900,
Kaim Orchestra…founded
by the philologist Franz Kaim, it lasted from 1893 till 1908
and was a vital presence in
Thomaskantor…Bach’s old position, thus one of
great prestige in
Schuster-Woldan…a painter of elegant female portraits, rather in the vein of the Americans
John White Alexander or Thomas Wilmer Dewing.
Reflective…James Huneker:
Ivory, Apes and Peacocks, p. 98. Huneker misapplied the
phrase to Schönberg, who actually often wrote at
white heat, e. g., finishing a work as complex as Erwartung in less than 3 weeks
Party member… Frederick Spotts:
Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics, p. 272
Under fire…Daniel Gillis: Fürtwängler and
Certain circumstances…Friedrich von Hausegger: letter
of
Personal
characteristics
Jochum… letter of
Redlich… letter of
Hausegger the
conductor
various posts listed…cc of a brief biographical listing sent to the writer by the composer’s
son, Friedrich
Scottish National Orchestra…Prof. Emil Kraus-Hamburg: Siegmund von Hausegger, Eine Studie, p. 297
Little regard for Debussy…Nicholas Slonimsky:
A Lexicon of Musical Invective, p. 100 See BzK for
the fleshed-out version . His son wrote me that he had
no interest in 12-tone music.
Loeffler…Ellen
Knight: Charles Martin Loeffler, pp. 139-139. This
citation implies no criticism of Loeffler, whose
music I value and enjoy.
Bruckner, Strauss and Hausegger
Beckerath…best known for his Brahms
portraits
Jochum…loc. Cit.
Bruckner connection in general…cc of a list Hausegger typed up, sent to the writer by his
son.
Premier of Bruckner’s
Fifth… This
would have been Schalk’s heavily cut and reorchestrated version.
Other compositions
Odinsmeeresritt…Arthur
Elson: Modern Composers of
his son unaware…letter of
scant mutual regard…Herta Blaukopf: Mahler’s Unknown
Letters, see p. 55 to infer his opinion of Hausegger. Hausegger considered Mahler
a master of the modern Lied, but apparently little
more.
Dionysian Fantasia
From tragedy…Walter Kaufmann, Introduction to
Nietzsche’s “Birth of Tragedy” p. 11
at the very climax of joy…Ibid., p. 40
One reluctantly sides… Wilhelm Zentner:
Siegmund von Hausegger, p. 240
Schönberg…H. H. Stuckenschmidt:
Barbarossa
Badenyi…Edward Crankshaw:
The Fall of the House of Hapsburg, p. 301
a reminder…Adolf Schultze: article on
Barbarossa
rising up…Oscar
Nöe: article on Barbarossa
If not yet the equal…Elson, Op. Cit., p. 29
An overeager article…Arthur Seidl:
Neuzeitliche Tondichter, p.
183
highly talented fellow…Anthony Beaumont: Zemlinsky, p. 122
It would be false…Zentner, Loc. Cit. Also, George L. Mosse’s excellent The
Crisis of German Ideology has valuable information on 19th-Century
Germans’ nostalgia for the past,
especially the middle ages.
Wieland der Schmied
August Kubizek…August Kubizek:
The Young Hitler I Knew, p. 190
censorious guru…Rudolf
Louis: Deutsche Musik der Gegenwart, p. 188
Stokowski…Leon
Botstein: program booklet 1992 Bard College Music Festival p. 44
Natursymphonie
Anschwager also has the archaic meanings of
“coachman” or “postillion”.
solemn song of peace…Rudolf Siegel: article on Die Natursymphonie,
p. 15
Hausegger’s finest achievement…e. g., see Dr. Hans Burkhardt’s article: Zur Deutung und Würdigung von Hauseggers Natursymphonie, p. 294
et seq.
Jochum conducted…Jochum: Loc. Cit.
Aufklänge
premier of the Mahler 4th…Henri Louis de la Grange: Mahler, v. I, p. 650