Forgotten conductors, Eduard Morike
Eduard Mörike The son of a businessman and a music-loving mother, the great-nephew of the poet of the same name grew up with seven siblings in Stuttgart . When he was ten years old, the family moved to Leipzig . There he attended the Royal High School from Easter 1888 to September 1894 . On the advice of Felix Weingartner he decided to let his musical talent to train instead of Medicine study. At the Leipzig Conservatory he studied piano with Adolf Ruthardt , Karl Piutti and Hans Sitt , among others form. At the age of 19 he won a composition award for a piano concerto in A minor . He then became a personal student of the pianist Alexander Ilyich Siloti . After spending seven months in the United States , he decided to pursue a career as a conductor. He got a job as 2nd Kapellmeister at the Rostock City Theater . At the age of 24 he was appointed chief conductor in Kiel . In 1906 he was given the honorable assignment to participate in the Bayreuth Festiv...