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Gustav Ludwig Wilhelm Hinrichs〔Not to be confused with Gustav Dethlef Hinrichs, a noted scientist of the 19th century, or Gustav Hinrichs, of Berlin, a German historian and classicist who collaborated with the Brothers Grimm in addition to many of his own writings.()〕 (later Anglicized to Hinricks)〔 (10 December 1850 - 26 March 1942) was a German-born American conductor and composer. He immigrated to the United States at the age of twenty, conducting opera in San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia where he founded his own opera company. His compositions include an opera and an accompanying score to the 1925 silent film ''The Phantom of the Opera''.〔''Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians''〕 ==Career== Gustav Hinrichs was born in Grabow near Ludwigslust, Germany to August Hinrichs and Sophie ''neé'' Havekoss.〔US Census 1920, Ancestry.com〕 He studied music, first with his father, and later with Marxsen in Hamburg.〔''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians'' (2001)〕 At the age of fifteen he started studying conducting. By the age of twenty he was sufficiently accomplished to obtain a position as a conductor in the United States. Leaving from Hamburg via Le Havre, he arrived in the United States on the ''Silesia'' on 4 April 1870.〔 In San Francisco he taught music and conducted the Fabbri Opera 〔 and served as the music director of the Tivoli Opera House.〔 One of the operas he directed there was ''The Prince of Pilsen'' by Henry W. Savage.〔Margaret Blake-Alverson (1913) ''Sixty Years of California Song''〕 In 1881 he founded the San Francisco Philharmonic Society, precursor of the San Francisco Symphony.〔(Museum of Performance and Design, San Francisco )〕 His conducting of the newly established orchestra played to mixed reviews.〔The Californian, Volume 5 (1882) pp. 381-382, "The Philharmonic Concerts" ()〕 While in San Francisco he conducted the Grand Military Band at the Authors' Carnival given for the Associated Charities of San Francisco, October 18 to October 28, 1880.〔(Margaret Blake Alverson (1836-1923) ''Sixty Years of California Song'' )〕 In 1885, he moved to New York where he became assistant conductor of the American Opera Company under director Theodore Thomas.〔 In 1888, he founded the Gustav Hinrichs Opera Company in Philadelphia which survived for ten seasons. On 28 July 1890, he produced and conducted the première of his own opera, ''Onti-Ora''.〔Gustav Hinrichs; Mary B Toland, libretto, (188?) ''Onti-Ora: romantic grand opera in three acts'', Charles F. Tretbar, New York〕 He also conducted the American premières of ''Cavalleria rusticana'' (9 Sept. 1891), ''L'amico Fritz'' (8 June 1892), ''Les Pêcheurs de perles'' (1893) and ''Manon Lescaut'' (29 Aug. 1894).〔〔 He conducted the première American performance of ''I Pagliacci'' in New York on 15 June 1893.〔 He also conducted ''Hänsel und Gretel'' in Philadelphia〔(Internet Archive )〕 He moved back to New York where he conducted and held a professorship at Columbia University from 1895 to 1906 and taught at the National Conservatory. He conducted at the Metropolitan Opera for several seasons from 1899 to 1904 conducting ''Faust'' (19 Oct. 1899) at the house and ''Il Barbiere di Siviglia'' (14 Oct. 1899) while the Met was on tour in Syracuse, New York.〔〔 From October 11 to October 16, 1909 he conducted ''La Loie Fuller and the Muses'' at the National Theatre, Washington, D.C.〔(The National Theatre, Washington D.C )〕 Hinrichs translated ''Boccaccio'', by Franz von Suppé, into English.〔(Music Australia )〕 Hinrichs was a very active arranger, orchestrating a large number of songs and other works by Rudolf Friml, Bizet, Gounod and others.〔Library of Congress〕〔(Internet Archive )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gustav Hinrichs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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