Theater In Paris: In France. Rankled by the continuing rivalry, however, Goldoni accepted a post in 1762 as director of the Italian Theater in Paris. Ironically, he was expected to provide mere scenarios for interpretation by the actors—this after his embattled reform of improvised comedy in Venice. He left this theater after two years but remained in France and became tutor in Italian to the sisters of Louis XVI.
The earliest treatise on guita playing is dated 1586; another followed in 164C and the most famous, by Caspar Sanz, appears Paris in 1902, the same year his first dramatic work, Le Page, an opera bouffe, was performed. Until 1910 he was associated primarily with his father's company at the Theatre de la Renaissance, and from 1910 to World War II he was the acknowledged master of the boulevard (popular, as opposed to literary) theater. He died in Paris on July 24, 1957.
RICHTER, Hans, Austrian musical conductor : b. Raab, Hungary, April 4, 1843; d. Bay-reuth, Dec. 5, 1916. He was the son of the kapellmeister of the cathedral and entered the conservatorium at Vienna in 1860. He studied the violin under Karl Heissler and theory under Simon Sechter. He was conductor of the Hof und National Theater, Munich, in 1868-1869, after which he visited Paris and Brussels. He became chief conductor of the National Theater, Budapest, in 1871; and in 1875 succeeded Felix Dessoff as conductor of the court opera at Vienna, holding at the same time the conductorship of the Philharmonic Concerts. |
