Wilhelm Jahn
Austrian conductor
Wilhelm Jahn (24 November 1835 in Dvorce – 21 April 1900 in Vienna) was an Austrian conductor.
Life
Jahn served as director of the Vienna Court Opera from 1880 to 1897 and principal conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra from 1882 to 1883.
He gave the partial premiere of Bruckner's Symphony No. 6, performing the middle two movements in 1883.[1][2] in 1892 he conducted the world premiere of Jules Massenet's Werther in Vienna.
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Vienna Staatsoper Directors
- Franz von Dingelstedt (1867)
- Johann von Herbeck (1870)
- Franz von Jauner (1875)
- Wilhelm Jahn (1881)
- Gustav Mahler (1897)
- Felix Weingartner (1908)
- Hans Gregor (1911)
- Richard Strauss / Franz Schalk (1919)
- Franz Schalk (1924)
- Clemens Krauss (1929)
- Felix Weingartner (1935)
- Heinrich Karl Strohm (1940)
- Lothar Müthel (1941)
- Karl Böhm (1943)
- Franz Salmhofer (1945)
- Karl Böhm (1954)
- Herbert von Karajan (1956)
- Egon Hilbert (1964)
- Heinrich Reif-Gintl (1968)
- Rudolf Gamsjäger (1972)
- Egon Seefehlner (1976)
- Lorin Maazel (1982)
- Egon Seefehlner (1984)
- Claus Helmut Drese (1986)
- Eberhard Waechter / Ioan Holender (1991)
- Ioan Holender (1992)
- Dominique Meyer (2010)
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