Siegmund von Hausegger
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Siegmund von Hausegger (born 16 August 1872 in Graz, died 10 October 1948 in Munich) was an Austrian composer and conductor.
He conducted in many German and Austrian cities including Graz, Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin and Hamburg. His compositions included Masses, operas and symphonic poems.
He is most famous for being the first conductor to perform Bruckner's Ninth Symphony in its original form. The symphony had been posthumously premiered in a version which had been substantially edited by Ferdinand Löwe. Löwe made changes to the harmonies, dynamics and phrasing in a bid to make the symphony more acceptable to the public. In 1932, von Hausegger presented a concert in which the symphony was performed twice by the Munich Philharmonic; first in Löwe's version then using Bruckner's original autograph. Today the symphony is almost always presented in Bruckner's original form. von Hausegger also made the first commercial recording of the symphony with the Munich Philharmonic in 1938 for HMV.
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| Preceded by: Hans Pfitzner |
Principal conductors, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra 1920–1938 |
Succeeded by: Oswald Kabasta |
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