Hans Swarowsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hans Swarowsky

Austrian conductor and music educator

Date of Birth: 16-Sep-1899

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 10-Sep-1975

Profession: writer, conductor, university teacher, music pedagogue

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Hans Swarowsky (September 16, 1899 – September 10, 1975) was an Austrian conductor of Hungarian birth. Swarowsky was born in Budapest, Hungary.
He studied the art of conducting under Felix Weingartner and Richard Strauss.
His teachers in musical theory included Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern.Herbert von Karajan invited him to take on the permanent position as conductor of the Vienna State Opera.He became a professor of conducting at the Vienna Music Academy.
His many conducting students included Claudio Abbado, Alexander Alexeev, Zubin Mehta, Leonid Nikolaev, Paul Angerer, Ádám and Iván Fischer, Jesús López-Cobos, Gustav Meier, Miltiades Caridis, Aleksandr Alekseyev, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Brian Jackson, Alfred Prinz, Bryan Fairfax, James Allen Gähres, Albert Rosen and Bruno Weil.
Swarowsky's lectures and essays were collected into the publication Wahrung der Gestalt (Keeping Shape), which today serves as an encyclopaedia for performance and conducting. From 1957 to 1959 he was chief conductor of the Scottish National Orchestra (now the Royal Scottish N.O.). He died in Salzburg, Austria, less than a week before his 76th birthday.