Talk:Bruno Walter

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[edit] Dropping the name Schlesinger Adopting the name Walter

Firstly it says he dropped the name in 1911. Then we're told it happened in 1896. He adopted Austrian citizenship in 1911.

What this leads me to think is that he unoficially dropped Schlesinger in 1896, but it remained his legal surname until he became Austrian in 1911, when it was dropped entirely. Is that correct? JackofOz 06:30, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Walter was born "Bruno Schlesinger"--no middle name; I've seen his birth certificate. (See Ryding and Pechefsky, p. 423, n. 1.) He never said that "Walter" was his middle name, though in his early career, after he'd changed his professional name to Bruno Walter, a few critics referred to him as "Bruno Walter Schlesinger"; this form usually appeared in anti-Semitic newspapers and was meant as a slight. Many reference works have unfortunately either listed "Walter" as his official middle name or ambiguously included "Schlesinger" in brackets. In fact, even pieces that I have written have sometimes been edited to include "Walter" as BW's middle name. Let's get it right here.

Regarding the official change of his name to Bruno Walter, it probably happened in 1911, as Walter writes in his autobiography, though his dates are often wrong, and I never saw official documentation verifying the date 1911. --Erik Ryding

Someone added that BW sometimes used "Walter" as his middle name when he changed from "Schlesinger" to "Walter." I have never seen this in any of BW's writings--only in the writings of some early critics, who sometimes referred to BW as "Bruno Walter Schlesinger."70.23.202.52 03:43, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

It's now become the received wisdom that he was born "Bruno Walter Schlesinger" and that he simply dropped the surname. This is so ingrained in mythology that it appears in the most learned of sources, and is all over the internet. I myself believed this version until Erik Ryding's post above, for which I am grateful. However, this, which needs a subscription to access fully, proves that the name Walter was entirely made up:

• Bruno chose Walter as his stage name, "thinking of Walter von Stolzing, Walther von der Vogelweide, and of Siegmund in Die Walküre, who would have ...".

I've amended the header to this thread in order not to perpetuate the myth. I'd like to include this information in the article, but we need the full article to get a better handle on his reasons for the choice of name. And there may be copyright issues. -- JackofOz (talk) 01:34, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Writings?

How about mentioning his writings, e.g. books, essays and autobiography (see the german version) in the article? Bagradian 07:43, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

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