Wilhelm Jahn

Austrian conductor

Wilhelm Jahn (24 November 1835 in Dvorce – 21 April 1900 in Vienna) was an Austrian conductor.

Life

Jahn served as director of the Vienna Court Opera from 1880 to 1897 and principal conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra from 1882 to 1883. He gave the partial premiere of Bruckner's Symphony No. 6, performing the middle two movements in 1883.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Kennedy, Michael (1999). Richard Strauss: Man, Muisician, Enigma. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 27.
^ Cohrs, Benjamin. "Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major WAB 106" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 12 August 2014.

Vienna Staatsoper Directors

Franz von Dingelstedt (1867)
Johann von Herbeck (1870)
Franz von Jauner (1875)
Wilhelm Jahn (1881)
Gustav Mahler (1897)
Felix Weingartner (1908)
Hans Gregor (1911)
Richard Strauss / Franz Schalk (1919)
Franz Schalk (1924)
Clemens Krauss (1929)
Felix Weingartner (1935)
Heinrich Karl Strohm (1940)
Lothar Müthel (1941)
Karl Böhm (1943)
Franz Salmhofer (1945)
Karl Böhm (1954)
Herbert von Karajan (1956)
Egon Hilbert (1964)
Heinrich Reif-Gintl (1968)
Rudolf Gamsjäger (1972)
Egon Seefehlner (1976)
Lorin Maazel (1982)
Egon Seefehlner (1984)
Claus Helmut Drese (1986)
Eberhard Waechter / Ioan Holender (1991)
Ioan Holender (1992)
Dominique Meyer (2010)

v t e Vienna Philharmonic Subscription Conductors
Otto Nicolai (1842) Karl Anton Eckert (1854) Felix Otto Dessoff (1860) Hans Richter (1875) Wilhelm Jahn (1882) Hans Richter (1883) Gustav Mahler (1898) Joseph Hellmesberger Jr. (1901) Felix Weingartner (1908) Wilhelm Furtwängler (1927) Clemens Krauss (1929)