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ANTON See also:SEIDL (1850-1898)
, Hungarian operatic conductor, was See also:born at See also:Budapest on the 7th of May 185o
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He entered the See also:Leipzig Conservatorium in See also:October 1870, and remained there until 1872, when he was summoned to See also:Bayreuth as one of See also:Wagner's copyists
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There he assisted to make the first See also:fair copy of Der See also:Ring See also:des Nibelungen
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Thoroughly imbued with the Wagnerian spirit, it was natural that he should take a See also:part in the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876
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His See also:chance as a conductor came when, on Wagner's recommendation, he was appointed to the Leipzig Stadt-Theater, where he remained until, in 1882; he went on tour with Angelo See also:Neumann's Nibelungen Ring See also:company
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To his conducting the critics attributed much of suchartistic success as attended the See also:production of the Trilogy at Her See also:Majesty's See also:Theatre in See also:London in See also:June of that See also:year
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In 1883 See also:Seidl went with Neumann to See also:Bremen, but two years later was appointed successor to See also:Leopold Damrosch as conductor of the See also:German See also:Opera in New See also:York, and in the same year he married Fraul'ein Kraus, the distinguished See also:singer
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In See also:America
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Seidl's See also:orchestra became famous
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In 1886 he was one of the conductors at Bayreuth, and in 1897 at Covent See also:Garden, London, He died in New York on the 28th of See also: See also:Finck, H . E . Krehbiel and others (New York, 1899) . |
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