Wilhelm Kienzl worked in music at a period when the art was changing shape around them.
The record lists Wilhelm Kienzl as Austrian composer (1857–1941).
Wilhelm Kienzl was born at Waizenkirchen in 1857. His recorded nationality is Cisleithania. He trained at University of Vienna and University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.
This was the century of the virtuoso and the touring soloist, when a performer could become famous across a continent.
He worked as composer, conductor and musicologist.
The instruments recorded are piano.
His work is classed as opera.
A musical reputation rests on a handful of works that refuse to date.
That the work came out of Cisleithania shaped it: musical traditions, training institutions and the reach of a recording industry all differ by country.
Wilhelm Kienzl died in 1941, aged 84. The recordings and scores remain, which is the only durable form a musical life takes.
Achievements
- Instruments: piano
- Genres: opera
