Weingartner, Felix
(1863–1942)> COMPOSER · CONDUCTOR
Weingartner, Felix (2 June 1863, Zara, Dalmatia; 7 May 1942, Winterthur), Austrian composer and conductor, studied privately at Graz under W. A. Rémy and at the Conservatory in Leipzig. Franz Liszt took an interest in him, and his first opera, Sakuntala , was produced at Weimar in 1884. He went on to write a number of operas and to conduct at a series of German cities including Königsberg (1884), Hamburg (1887), Mannheim (1889), and Berlin (1891). His fame as a composer-conductor spread beyond…