Josef Krips

Josef Alois Krips (born the April 8th 1902 with Vienna in Austria, dead the October 13rd 1974 with Swiss Geneva in ) was a Leader and Violon Austrian ist .

Biography

Krips was pupil of Eusebius Mandyczevski and Felix Weingartner. In 1921 he became the assistant of Weingartner to the popular Opéra of Vienna. it directed then various orchestras. In 1933 it is gone back to Vienna as leader. He was also professor with the Academy of Vienna.

The wife of Krips was Jewish. This is why it was constrained to leave Austria after the Anschluss (1938). He fled with Belgrade where he worked some time in symphony orchestras until the Yugoslavia enters in war. He has then to work in a factory of food products until the end of the war.

After the war (1945), Krips was the only Austrian leader authorized to work again. His/her colleagues who had continued to work under the mode Nazi did not know this privilege. It was thus one of the most solicited chiefs. It was the first to direct the Philharmonic orchestra of Vienna after the war; it égament directed the first Festivals of Salzburg of the post-war period.

Of 1950 with 1954, Josef Krips led the London Symphony Orchestra . Then it directed the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra to New York and the San Francisco Symphony . II its last station starting from 1970 as chief of the Deutsche Oper Berlin occupied. Of 1970 with 1973 he was pincipal chief Wiener Symphoniker . It is the first Austrian leader to have made a round in Soviet Union.

Most of the recordings of Krips is always appreciated, for example the symphonies of Beethoven with the London Symphony Orchestra , which were republished out of CD in the years 1990. Are remainders also its recordings of the operas of Mozart like Don Giovanni or Removal with the seraglio . It directed the last symphonies of Mozart with the Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest of Amsterdam.

Josef Krips is buried in Vienna with the cemetery of Neustift amndt Walde.

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Biography and discography of Krips

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