Klaus Döring's Classical Music/Klaus Döring's Klassische Musik

  Richard Heuberger (1850-1914). Profession: Conductor, Critic Neue Freie Presse. Residences: Graz, Vienna. Relation to Mahler:  Correspondence with Mahler:  Born: 18-06-1850 Graz, Austria. Died: 28-10-1914 Vienna, Austria. Buried: Hinterbrühler Cemetery, Vienna, Austria. Richard Franz Joseph Heuberger hailed from Graz in Austria, where he was born on 18 June 1850. He studied at the Graz Conservatory and then went to Vienna where he became chorus master of the Wiener Akademischer Gesangverein, conductor of the Wiener Singakademie (1878), director of the prestigious Wiener Männergesang-Verein (Vienna Men’s Choral Association) and, in 1902, a teacher at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien. He was also a music critic and was Eduard Hanslick’s successor on the influential Viennese newspaper, the Neue Freie Presse. His own literary works included various sketches, essays and a biography of Franz Schubert (1902). As a composer he wrote operas, ballets, choral works, songs and muc...