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FELIX MOTTL (1856- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 931 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FELIX See also:MOTTL (1856- )  , See also:German conductor and composer, was See also:born near See also:Vienna, and had a successful career at the Vienna See also:Conservatoire . - He became known as a gifted conductorof See also:Wagner's See also:music, and in 1876 was engaged for the See also:Ring See also:des Nibelungen at See also:Bayreuth . From 1881 to 1903 he was conductor at the Carlsruhe See also:Opera, and made a wide reputation for his activity there, particularly in producing the See also:works of Wagner and See also:Berlioz . In 1886 he directed the performance of See also:Tristan and Isolde at Bayreuth . In later years he visited See also:London and New See also:York, and became known as one of the most brilliant conductors of his See also:day; and in 1904 he was made a director of the See also:Academy of Music at See also:Berlin . He composed some operas, of which See also:Agnes See also:Bernauer (See also:Weimar, 1880) was the most successful, and numerous songs and other music .

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