Education
University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.
composer conductor music educator
University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.
Schnéevoigt began his career as a cellist performing throughout Europe in the 1890s. He was principal cellist of the Helsinki Philharmonic from 1896 to 1902. After this, he conducted many orchestras including the Kaim Orchestra (now the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra), Riga Philharmonic Orchestra which he founded, Oslo Philharmonic (1919–1921), the Stockholm Concert Society (later the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra), the Sydney Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
From 1930 until his death in 1947, Schnéevoigt was chief conductor of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra.
He conducted the first performance in Finland of Luonnotar in January 1914. He discovered the manuscripts of Sibelius"s tone poems "Lemminkäinen and the Maidens" and "Lemminkäinen in Tuonela" (from the Lemminkäinen Suite), which had been thought lost, and gave their first performance since 1894.
He also made the first recording of Sibelius"s Symphony Number. 6. In Europe young Schneevoigt was considered at best a genius.
Vesa Sirén has pointed out that the accounting by Los Angeles Philharmonic is not in accordance with the contemporary critique of Schnéevoigt"s conducting.
Sirén says that the critiques published in the papers of Los Angeles during 1927-1929 were mainly positive and especially Schnéevoigt"s Mahler interpretations were applauded. Schnéevoigt died in Malmö, Sweden in 1947 at age 75.