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Weigl, Johann Baptist(b Hahnbach, Bavaria, 26 March 1783; d Regensburg, 5 July 1852). German composer. He received his musical and academic education at the monastery of Prüfening (near Regensburg) and (from 1803) Amberg. In 1806 he was ordained priest, taught for a short time at the Gymnasium and later at the lyceum in Amberg; he then taught church history and canonic law at the lyceum in Regensburg, where he was also chancellor, inspector of the seminary of St Paul and leader of the choir. In 1837 he became a member of the cathedral chapter, the cathedral scholar and the inspector of the diocesan school of Regensburg. Weigl was a keen defender of church music with instrumental accompaniment and was opposed to the reform which was beginning in Catholic music around 1840, led by Karl Proske. WORKSall sacred vocal
BIBLIOGRAPHYD. Mettenleiter: Musikgeschichte der Stadt Regensburg (Regensburg, 1866) D. Mettenleiter: Karl Proske … ein Lebensbild (Regensburg, 1868, 2/1895) U. Kornmüller: Lexikon der kirchlichen Tonkunst (Brixen, 1870, 2/1891–5/R) T. Emmerig: ‘Die Musik im Regensburger Dom vor der Vewirklichung der Reformpläne Proskes: Wolfgang Joseph Emmerig, Johann Baptist Weigl und Johann Evangelist Deischer und ihr Einfluss auf die Kirchenmusik in Regensburg bis 1852’, Verhandlungen des Historischen Vereins für Oberpfalz und Regensburg, cxxiv (1984), 421–5 AUGUST SCHARNAGL Weigl, Karl(b Vienna, 6 Feb 1881; d New York, 11 Aug 1949). Austrian composer, naturalized American. After graduating from the Vienna Music Academy in 1902, he studied composition with Zemlinsky and musicology with Adler at the University of Vienna (PhD 1904). He served as a rehearsal conductor for Mahler at the Vienna Hofoper (1904–06) and taught at the Vienna City Conservatory (1918–28), before becoming professor of theory and composition at the University of Vienna in 1930. In 1938, with the annexation of Austria by Hitler, Weigl, who was Jewish, found that his works could no longer be performed. He left Vienna for the USA, where, after considerable difficulty, he obtained teaching positions at the Hartt School of Music (1941–2), Brooklyn College (1943–5), the Boston Conservatory (1946–8) and the Philadelphia Musical Academy (1948–9) among other institutions. He became an American citizen in 1943. Weigl was a respected composer in both Austria and the USA; his music was admired by Strauss, Mahler, Schoenberg, Walter, and Furtwängler. Representing the best of Viennese tradition in the melodiousness and clarity of design of his works, he was a particularly prolific composer of lieder in the tradition of Wolf and Mahler. The instrumental works combine a Brahmsian emphaticism with a profusion of polyphony. A Karl Weigl Memorial Fund, established for the perpetuation of his music through study, performance and recording, was set up at Mannes College in New York; its administration was transferred to Indiana University in 1979. He was married to the music therapist and composer Vally Weigl. WORKS(selective list)
BIBLIOGRAPHYR. Hoffmann: ‘Karl Weigl’, Musikblätter des Anbruch, iii (1921), 282–86 R. List: ‘Ein österreichischer Musiker in Amerika’, Austria: die Welt im Spiegel Österreichs, ii (1947), 278 K. Adler: ‘Dear M and A’, Music and Artists, i/4 (1968), 26–7 W. Sargeant: ‘Musical Events’, New Yorker (24 Feb 1968), 110, 112 P.L. Miller: ‘Karl Weigl: A Centennial Appreciation’, American Record Guide, xliv/10 (1981–2), 2–6 H.E. Selig: ‘Karl Weigl's Op. 1 in its 19th Century Context: A Historic Literary-Musical Fusion of Goethe's Wanderers Nachtlied and Ein Gleiches’, A History of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts, ii (1990), 579–606 R. Davis: ‘Karl Weigl: A Song Catalogue’, NATS Journal, xlv/3 (1988–9), 22–7 W. Szmolyan: ‘Ein Karl-Weigl-Symposium im Stift Altenburg’, ÖMz, xliv (1989), 644–5 K. Weigl and A. Zemlinsky: ‘Brahms and the Newer Generation: Personal Reminiscences’ [Eng. trans.], ed. W. Frisch, Brahms and his World (Princeton, 1990), 205–210, esp. 205–7 CHARLOTTE ERWIN/MICHAEL MECKNA Directory: New%20Grove%20Dictionnary%20Of%20Music Download 14.95 Mb. Share with your friends:
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