FELIX

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• FELIX MOTTL (1856- )

MOTTL (1856- )  , German conductor and composer, was born near Vienna, and had a successful career at the Vienna Conservatoire . - He became known as a gifted conductorof Wagner's music, and in 1876 was engaged for the Ring des Nibelungen at Bayreuth . From 1881 to 1903 he was conductor at the Carlsruhe Opera, and made a wide reputation for his activity there, particularly in producing the works of Wagner and Berlioz . In 1886 he directed the performance of Tristan and Isolde at Bayreuth . In later years he visited London and New York, and became known as one of the most brilliant conductors of his day; and in 1904 he was made a director of the Academy of Music at Berlin . He composed some operas, of which Agnes Bernauer (Weimar, 1880) was the most successful, and numerous songs and other music .