Background
Bruno Walter was born Bruno Schlesinger in Berlin, Germany, the son of Joseph Schlesinger, bookkeeper for a silk firm, and of Johanna Fernbach. Schlesinger - he changed his name to Walter around 1897 for professional reasons.
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Bruno Walter was born Bruno Schlesinger in Berlin, Germany, the son of Joseph Schlesinger, bookkeeper for a silk firm, and of Johanna Fernbach. Schlesinger - he changed his name to Walter around 1897 for professional reasons.
He attended public schools until the age of fifteen, but from early childhood his principal interest and talent was music. At age six he began piano lessons with his mother, and three years later he enrolled at the Stern Conservatory of Music to pursue advanced study under Alfred Heinrich Ehrlich. By the age of thirteen, Walter had perfected his piano skills to the point that a concert career seemed imminent. But in 1890 a concert directed by Hans von Bülow so inspired him that he decided to prepare for a conducting career.
After three years of intensive study with Robert Radeke, he was engaged by the Cologne Municipal Theater as accompanist-coach for the 1893-1894 opera season. On March 13, 1894, he conducted his first opera, Albert Lortzing's Der Waffenschmied. During the following two seasons Walter assisted Gustav Mahler at the Hamburg Opera. After a year as assistant conductor at the Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) State Theater, he spent the 1897-1898 season as principal conductor at the Pressburg (now Bratislava, Slovakia) State Theater. From 1898 to 1900, Walter was principal conductor of the Riga State Theater. There he conducted several Mozart and Wagner operas, performed in a number of piano-violin recitals, and led symphonic concerts for the first time. In 1900, Walter signed a five-year contract as royal Prussian conductor at the Berlin Opera. Although enjoying his association with Karl Muck and Richard Strauss, Walter chafed at the bureaucratic management of the Berlin Opera. He obtained his release in 1901 in order to become conductor of the Vienna Imperial Opera under Gustav Mahler. Walter worked closely with Mahler for the next six seasons, and the relationship left an indelible mark upon him. When Mahler departed for America in 1907, Walter remained, under Felix Weingartner and Hans Gregor, until the fall of 1912. During this time he directed Vienna Singakademie programs in 1911 and 1912 and a number of Vienna Philharmonic concerts, in addition to appearing as guest conductor in London, Rome, and Moscow. On January 1, 1913, Walter became Bavarian general music director and artistic head of the Munich Opera. During the next ten years he conducted both opera and symphony concerts, meanwhile furthering his understanding of Mozart and his music. He resigned this dual position in the fall of 1922, and spent the next three years conducting in Europe and the United States. His American debut occurred on Feburary 15, 1923, with the New York Symphony Orchestra. During the summer of 1925, Walter made the first of more than a dozen appearances at the Salzburg Music Festival. That fall he became general musical director of the Berlin Municipal (Charlottenburg) Opera. He resigned the post four years later because of repertory and budgetary disagreements. In late 1929, Walter was installed as director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. This association ended in March 1933, when anti-Semitic municipal authorities forbade him to conduct, on the ground that he threatened "public order and security. " Shortly thereafter, Walter was replaced as conductor of a Berlin Philharmonic concert because the Nazi Propaganda Ministry declared him "politically suspicious. " Walter immediately established residence in Austria. During the next three years he conducted extensively in western Europe, Italy, and especially in America, where he directed a substantial number of New York Philharmonic concerts. In 1936, Walter became principal conductor and artistic adviser of the Vienna State Opera, in which capacity he served until Germany annexed Austria in March 1938. He then settled in Switzerland, where he helped found the Lucerne Festival prior to accepting French citizenship in the fall of 1938. He continued his musical activities in Europe until 1939, when he migrated to the United States. During the war Walter was guest conductor for the Minneapolis Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, but mainly for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra; cut his first American recordings; and made his Metropolitan Opera debut on Feburary 14, 1941, directing Beethoven's Fidelio. During his ten-season association with the Met Walter conducted 108 performances (thirty-six were of The Magic Flute). After the war Walter frequently visited Europe to conduct, principally in London and Vienna and at the Edinburgh and Salzburg festivals. In America he devoted the bulk of his energy to the New York Philharmonic, for which he was musical adviser and principal conductor from 1947 to 1949. He became an American citizen in 1946. At the age of eighty, Walter curtailed his concert appearances to record, primarily for Columbia. He was world-renowned for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and especially of Anton Bruckner and Mahler, whose music he constantly championed. Walter shunned dissonance and atonality, which, he said, threatened to "cause the decay of music. " He worked assiduously to bring out the "beauty of lyrical feeling" in compositions. Above all, he strove to perform music according to the composer's will, not the conductor's. Walter excelled in opera. Walter died in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Quotations: "The conductor's relation to the orchestra, " he stated, "must be tolerant benevolence. "
His long apprenticeship in Germany, augmented by years of close association with Mahler, had given him both a full understanding of the human voice and vital experience in the many aspects of dramatic production. He developed an "eye for the musical stage" and was, Lotte Lehmann wrote, "both conductor and stage director at once. " Equally important, he realized the orchestra's role was secondary to that of the singers and conducted accordingly. Modest and introspective, Walter treated his musicians as his equals and viewed his role as that of an educator, not a despot.
On May 2, 1901, he married Elsa Wirthschaft, an operatic soprano whose stage name was Korneck, whom he had met at Riga. They had three daughters.