
Julius Röntgen (1855-1932) Aus Goethes Faust (1930) Orchestra: Orkest van het Oosten Conductor: David Porcelijn Choir: Koor van de Nationale Reisopera Machteld Baumans (soprano) - Gretchen Marcel Beekman (tenor) - Bauer André Morsch (baritone) - Erdgeist André Post (tenor) - Brander Mark Richardson (baritone) - Bettler Dennis Wilgenhof (bass) - Mephistopheles Julius Röntgen was a composer, conductor and pianist, son of Engelbert Röntgen. The most celebrated member of the family, he studied composition with Friedrich Lachner, harmony and counterpoint with Hauptmann and EF Richter and the piano with Louis Plaidy and Carl Reinecke. He began composing at the age of nine, and in 1869 he made his début as a composer at the Niederrheinisches Musikfest in Düsseldorf with a duo for two violins, performed by his father and Joseph Joachim. After giving concerts in Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Baden-Baden he settled in Cannstatt (18734) as accompanist to the baritone Julius Stockhausen. He visited Liszt in Weimar in 1870. From 1877 to 1925 Röntgen lived in Amsterdam, where he became a piano teacher at the music school in 1878 (the school acquired conservatory status in 1884). From 1912 to 1924 he was director of the Amsterdam Conservatory, succeeding Frans Coenen and Daniël de Lange, and he remained there as a piano teacher until 1926. He succeeded GA Heinze as conductor of the choral society Excelsior (18846) and Johannes Verhulst as conductor of the Amsterdam Toonkunstkoor (188698); he <b>...</b>
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