Richard Specht (7 December 1870, Vienna – 18 March 1932) was an Austrian lyricist, dramatist, musicologist and writer. Specht, who had studied music with Ignaz Brüll, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Franz Schreker, is most well known for his writings on classical music, and in his time was seen as a leading music journalist. He was a great authority on the music of Gustav Mahler, and in later life became a regular acquaintance of his widow, Alma Mahler-Werfel. He was, amongst other things, a contributor to the Wiener Illustrierten Extrablatts and other Viennese newspapers, as well as a correspond
Richard Specht (7 December 1870, Vienna – 18 March 1932) was an Austrian lyricist, dramatist, musicologist and writer.
Specht, who had studied music with Ignaz Brüll, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Franz Schreker, is most well known for his writings on classical music, and in his time was seen as a leading music journalist. He was a great authority on the music of Gustav Mahler, and in later life became a regular acquaintance of his widow, Alma Mahler-Werfel.
He was, amongst other things, a contributor to the Wiener Illustrierten Extrablatts and other Viennese newspapers, as well as a correspondent for the Berlin-based music magazine Die Musik. In 1909, Specht founded the periodical Der Merker, for which he served as editor until July 1914 and again from May 1918 to October 1919 and collaborating with Richard Batka. In 1925, he was appointed to a professorship at the institution that is now the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.
0 comentarii3 vizualizări0 reacții
Richard Spechta adăugat o fotografie
acum 3 zile
R.I.P Richard
Florestan Kestners Erfolg, a story (1929)
Die Nase des Herrn Valentin Berger, Drama (1929)
0 comentarii3 vizualizări0 reacții
Richard Spechta lăsat un gând
acum 3 zile
Gustav Mahler (1913)
Das Wiener Operntheater - Fifty years of memories (1919)
Die Frau ohne Schatten - Introduction to the music (1919)
0 comentarii3 vizualizări0 reacții
Richard Spechta lăsat un gând
acum 3 zile
Julius Bittner (1921)
Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek - A preliminary study (1922)
Arthur Schnitzler - The poet and his work. A study (1922)
0 comentarii3 vizualizări0 reacții
Richard Spechta lăsat un gând
acum 3 zile
Franz Werfel (1926)
Johannes Brahms: Leben und Werk eines deutschen Meisters (1928; English translation by Eric Blom)
0 comentarii3 vizualizări0 reacții
Richard Spechta lăsat un gând
acum 3 zile
Bildnis Beethovens (1931; English translation, 1933)
Giacomo Puccini. Das Leben, der Mensch, das Werk (1931; English translation, 1933)
