Robert Maria Haas (15 August 1886, Prague – 4 October 1960, Vienna) was an Austrian musicologist.
17-715: Robert Haas may refer to: Robert Haas (musicologist) (1886–1960), Austrian musicologist Robert Haas (calligrapher) (1898–1997), American calligrapher, typographer, photographer and book designer Robert Haas (clergyman) , German clergyman and ecumenist Robert C. Haas , American law enforcement official in Cambridge, Massachusetts Robert M. Haas (1889–1962), American art director Bob Haas (born 1942), owner and executive of Levi Strauss & Co Robert Haas (investor) (1947–2021), American investor, photographer and motorcycle collector Robert Z. Haas , American vinter of
34-563: A great productive artist [i.e., Bruckner] can be 'put under pressure' for the duration of a depression. ... The falsification that is done here to the character of Bruckner - Bruckner as a fool - is much greater than [that done] by the essays [attempts?] of the first scholars, Loewe and Schalk." On the other hand, conductor Georg Tintner , even as a Jewish victim of Nazi persecution, subsequently described Haas as "brilliant" and called Haas's edition of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony "the best" of all available versions although he himself chose to record
51-407: A revised manuscript of 1890 which incorporated suggestions from Franz Schalk , Arthur Nikisch and others, and the first published edition of 1892 which went even further in the direction of the changes, including significant cuts, suggested by Bruckner's friends. Haas decided to make a composite edition based on the 1890 manuscript but adding in some passages from the 1887 version he (justifiably, in
68-412: Is "Every theatre is an insane asylum, but an opera theatre is the ward for the incurables." Today, he is best known for his association with Anton Bruckner . He gave the premiere of Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 in 1894, but with numerous cuts and alterations thought by most authorities to have been made without Bruckner's approval. (The composer was too ill to attend the premiere.) Schalk's version of
85-738: The Third symphony was destroyed during the war.} Haas's editions of Bruckner are controversial. Writing for the Cambridge University Press , Benjamin Korstvedt charges that in the Second, Seventh and Eighth symphonies Haas made changes to Bruckner's musical texts that "went beyond the limits of scholarly responsibility". For example, the Eighth Symphony existed in three versions: Bruckner's original manuscript of 1887,
102-524: The Fifth Symphony was the one chosen for first publication, and was the only version heard by audiences for almost forty years. While many critics have attacked him for his alterations of the original versions of many of Bruckner's most important symphonies, others credit him for popularizing great works which might otherwise have remained unknown. Present-day conductor Leon Botstein is a prominent advocate of Schalk's versions of Bruckner's music, as
119-488: The Tablas Creek Vineyard See also [ edit ] Robert Hass (born 1941), American poet Robert Bernard Hass (born 1962), American poet, literary critic, and professor [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
136-728: The Wiener Singspiel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach . Franz Schalk Franz Schalk (27 May 1863 – 3 September 1931) was an Austrian conductor . From 1918 to 1929 he was director of the Vienna State Opera , a post he held jointly with Richard Strauss from 1919 to 1924. He was later involved in the establishment of the Salzburg Festival . Born in Vienna , he studied under composer Anton Bruckner . From 1900, he
153-488: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Haas&oldid=1243292825 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Robert Haas (musicologist) At the beginning of his career with the Austrian national library, Haas
170-555: The original 1887 version. Many conductors including Herbert von Karajan , Bernard Haitink , Daniel Barenboim , Takashi Asahina and Günter Wand continued to prefer Haas's editions, even after the Nowak editions became available. Haas also edited some of the music of Hugo Wolf , Claudio Monteverdi 's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria , Christoph Willibald von Gluck 's Don Juan ballet score, and other Baroque music. He also wrote about
187-459: The pair" (despite Schalk's recorded renditions of the Beethoven and Schubert 8th Symphonies virtually as distinguished as Strauss' versions of the last three Mozart symphonies, Beethoven's 5th & 7th, and some of the best-known German overtures). Tensions resulting from unclear division of responsibility between the two men eventually led to Strauss's resignation. Schalk's most famous quote
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#1732780941784204-542: The view of many Brucknerians, including conductors Rudolf Kempe and Georg Tintner ) thought it a shame to lose: he also rewrote a brief passage himself. Haas thus produced a text of the symphony, however laudable on its own merits, that didn't happen to correspond to anything ever written or approved by Bruckner. Similar reworking occurs in Haas's edition of the Second Symphony. Some scholars have suggested that Haas
221-447: Was Hans Knappertsbusch . Schalk was also involved in the early publication of Mahler 's Symphony No. 10 . Schalk gave the premiere of Richard Strauss 's opera Die Frau ohne Schatten in 1919. He died in 1931, aged 68. Some of his work as a conductor has been preserved and is available on CD. Schalk's elder brother Joseph was also a prominent conductor and musician. This article about an Austrian conductor or bandleader
238-705: Was first kapellmeister of the Vienna Court Opera (Hofoper) . Between 1904 and 1921, he was head of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. In 1918 he became director of the Vienna State Opera (Staatsoper, successor to the Hofoper), but from 1919 shared the directorship with Richard Strauss, with the well-known composer considered "blatantly (though unofficially) the 'greater equal' of
255-665: Was mostly interested in Baroque and Classical music. Later on, he was engaged by the newly formed International Bruckner Society to work on a complete edition of Anton Bruckner 's symphonies and Masses based on the original manuscripts bequeathed by the composer to the Vienna library. Between 1935 and 1944 Haas published editions of Bruckner's, Sixth (1935), Fifth (1935), First (1935), Fourth (1936 and 1944), Second , Eighth (1939) and Seventh (1944) symphonies. (A scholarly edition of Bruckner's Ninth symphony had already been produced in 1932 by Alfred Orel , while Haas's work on
272-508: Was motivated to make these changes in order to assert copyright over his work. Another source of controversy is Haas's affiliation with the Nazi party, of which he was a member and didn't hesitate or scruple to use the language of Nazism to garner approval for his work. He portrayed Bruckner as being a pure and simple country soul who had been corrupted by "cosmopolitan" and Jewish influences. This proved Haas's undoing: after World War II , he
289-571: Was removed from the Bruckner project and replaced by the more scholarly, if less inventive, Leopold Nowak who went on to produce new editions of all Bruckner's symphonies, including use of the severely cut last (1892) version of the Eighth the composer was persuaded to promulgate for publication. Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler criticized what he called Haas's "violation myth" in his private notebooks: "Only unproductive minds can seriously believe that
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