Hans Swarowsky
Known as widely for his teaching as for his orchestral direction, Hans Swarowsky had much to share with a younger generation of musicians. He studied composition and conducting with several of the twentieth century's greatest icons, absorbing and exercising what he had learned in a respected career as a conductor. Despite an uneven cast, his recording of Wagner's Ring cycle, taped in Prague, has considerable power and poetry.
Born in Hungary, Swarowsky studied in Vienna with composers Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern and trained in conducting with Felix Weingartner, Richard Strauss, and Clemens Krauss. His engagements subsequently took him to many parts of Europe, first to Stuttgart and Hamburg, later to Berlin (1934), Zürich (1937-1940), and Krakow (1944-1946).
Following several harrowing experiences in flight from the Nazis, Swarowsky found his career stabilized once more in the postwar period with an engagement at Graz from 1947-1950. During this time and in subsequent assignments at the Wiener Staatsoper, Swarowsky was recognized as a conductor with a long measure of technical expertise. Thus, his classes at Vienna's Academy of Music and the Performing Arts, where he had been professor of conducting since 1946, drew a remarkable pool of aspiring young musicians. Among them were Claudio Abbado, Jesús López-Cobos, Mariss Jansons, Zubin Mehta, Giuseppe Sinopoli, and Bruno Weil, later to be among the most prominent of their generation. Vienna's Hans Swarowsky International Conductors' Competition has attracted musicians from all parts of the globe, becoming in the process one of the world's most important clearing houses for rising talent.
From 1957 to 1959, Swarowsky served as chief conductor of the Scottish National Orchestra. In 1959, he was appointed chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra; together with his service to that ensemble, he continued to appear with the Wiener Staatsoper.
In addition to performing compositions from the Classical and Romantic periods, Swarowsky served his own age with diligence. Aside from Strauss and Webern, composers such as Britten, Einem, Hindemith, Pfitzner, and Stravinsky figured prominently in the conductor's programming. Among his recordings for Concert Hall, Erato, Nonesuch, Vanguard, Vox, and Weltbild, he committed to disc an especially delightful set of orchestral suites from Humperdinck operas.
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Liszt: 4 Rhapsodies hongroises - J. Strauss II: Csárdás du Chevalier Pásmán (Mono Version)
Orchestre de l'opéra d'état de Vienne, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1961
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Grieg: Concerto pour piano, Op. 16 - Falla: Nuits dans les jardins d'Espagne (Mono Version)
Guiomar Novaes, Hans Swarowsky, Pro Musica Orchester Wien
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1955
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Beethoven: Symphonie No. 7, Op. 92 (Stereo Version)
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1961
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Falla: Noches en los jardines de España
Orquesta Sinfónica Pro-Música de Viena, Hans Swarowsky, Guiomar Novaes
Klassik - Erschienen bei MARFER am 30.09.1972
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Weber, Verdi, Rossini & Wagner: Famous Overtures (Mono Version)
Orchestre de l'opéra d'état de Vienne, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1957
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Beethoven: Concerto pour piano No. 4 & Sonate pour piano No. 17 "La tempête" (Mono Version)
Guiomar Novaes, Hans Swarowsky, Pro Musica Orchester Wien
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1956
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Grosses Symphonieorchster, Hans Swarowsky
Klassik - Erschienen bei Denon am 01.01.2009
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Music from Watchmen
Ultimate Heroes, Grosses Symphony Orchestra, Hans Swarowsky
Pop - Erschienen bei Vanilla OMP am 15.04.2012
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Beethoven: Sinfonía No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21
Orquesta Sinfonica De Viena, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei MARFER am 13.07.1980
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Haydn: Symphony No. 100, Overture in D Major & Trumpet Concerto (Mono Version)
Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Swarowsky, Adolf Holler
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1960
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Mendelssohn: Concerto pour deux pianos, MWV O5 & Capriccio brillant, Op. 22 (Mono Version)
Orazio Frugoni, Pro Musica Orchester Wien, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1955
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Piano Masterpieces: Friedrich Gulda, Vol.1 (Recordings 1962)
Friedrich Gulda, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Hans Swarowsky
Klassik - Erschienen bei Jube Classic am 02.07.2013
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto No. 20 For Piano And Orchestra In D-Minor, K. 466 / Piano Sonata In A-Minor, K. 310
Denis Matthews, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hans Swarowsky, Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Pop - Erschienen bei Music Manager am 26.03.2013
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Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Op. 64
Ivry Gitlis, Wiener Symphoniker, Hans Swarowsky
Instrumentalmusik - Erschienen bei Vox am 07.04.2023
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Beethoven: Sinfonia No. 5 en C Minor, Op. 67
Orquesta Sinfónica de Hamburgo, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei MARFER am 13.04.1978
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Smetana & Suppé: Ouvertures d'opéras (Mono Version)
Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1961
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Saint-Saëns, Liszt: Symphony No. 3 "Organ Symphony" and Symphonic Poem No. 9 "Hungaria"
Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Hans Swarowsky, Josef Nebois
Klassik - Erschienen bei HORTUS am 04.01.1991
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Beethoven: Symphonie No. 2 & 2 Ouvertures (Mono Version)
Orchestre de l'opéra d'état de Vienne, Hamburger Symphoniker, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1962
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Brahms: Concerto pour piano No. 1, Op. 15 (Mono Version)
Friedrich Wuhrer, Pro Musica Orchester Wien, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1962
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Mozart: 4 Concertos pour cor (Mono Version)
Albert Linder, Orchestre de l'opéra d'état de Vienne, Hans Swarowsky
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1962
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Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (Mono Version)
Pro Musica Orchester Wien, Hans Swarowsky, Jean Christophe Benoit
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1963
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