Monthly Archive: January 2019

The Music Treasury for 20 January 2019 — Josef Alois Krips, Conductor

by Audiophile Audition | Jan 20, 2019 | Uncategorized

This week, The Music Treasury is presenting recordings of the conductor Josef Krips.  Krips was a significant figure in the world 20th century conducting, leading orchestras and opera houses in Boston, San Francisco, Vienna, London, and Berlin.  Quite comfortable with the standard literature of the day, Krips also championed new composers, and featured many world premiers under his baton. The show is aired on KZSU in the Bay Area on Sunday evening, from 19:00-21:00 PST, and is streamed concurrently on the web through the host station at Stanford  University, kzsu.stanford.edu.  As always, the show is hosted by none other than Dr Gary Lemco. Josef Alois Krips, conductor Josef Alois Krips (8 April 1902 – 13 October 1974) was an Austrian conductor and violinist. Krips was born in Vienna. His father, Josef Jakob Krips, was a medical doctor and amateur singer; his mother was Aloisia, née Seitz. Krips was one of five sons. He became a pupil of Felix Weingartner and Eusebius Mandyczewski. From 1921 to 1924, he served as Weingartner’s assistant at the Vienna Volksoper, and also as répétiteur and chorus master. He then conducted several orchestras, including in Karlsruhe from 1926 to 1933. In 1933 he returned to Vienna as a […]