Background
Bülow was born in Dresden, Germany to members of the prominent Bülow family
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Bülow was born in Dresden, Germany to members of the prominent Bülow family
At the age of nine he began to study music under Friedrich Wieck as part of a genteel education.
It was only after an illness while studying law at Leipzig University in 1848 that he determined upon music as a career.
At this time he was a pupil of Moritz Hauptmann.
Next he became principal professor of the piano at the Stern Academy.
Became law student but abandoned it for mus. pupil of Liszt, 1851.
From Weimar he went to Zurich, where the exile Wagner instructed him in the elements of conducting.
But he soon returned to Weimar and Liszt; and in 1853 he made his first concert tour, which extended from Vienna to Berlin.
Thence he removed to Munich, where, thanks to Wagner, he had been appointed H of kapellmeister to Louis II, and chief of the Conservatorium.
After a temporary stay in Florence, Biilow set out on tour again as a pianist, visiting most European countries as well as the United States of America, before taking up the post of conductor at Hanover, and, later, at Meiningen, where he raised the orchestra to a pitch of excellence till then unparalleled.
He constantly visited England, for the last time in 1888, in which year he went to live in Hamburg.
Nevertheless he continued to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic Concerts.
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A passionate hater of humbug and affectation, he had a ready pen, and a biting, sometimes almost rude wit, yet of his kindness and generosity countless tales were told.
He married in his twenty-eight year Liszt's daughter Cosima.
In 1869 his marriage was dissolved, his wife subsequently marrying Wagner, an incident which, while preventing Billow from revisiting Bayreuth, never dimmed his enthusiasm for Wagner's dramas.
In July 1882 he married the actress Marie Schanzer.