Richard Specht
Richard Specht (7 December 1870, Vienna – 19 March 1932) was an Austrian lyricist, dramatist, musicologist and writer.
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Richard Specht Portrait
Specht is most well known for his writings on classical music, and in his time was seen as a leading music journalist. He was a great authority on the music of Gustav Mahler, and in later life became a regular acquaintance of his widow, Alma Mahler-Werfel.
He was, amongst other things, a contributor to the Wiener Illustrierten Extrablatts and other Viennese newspapers. From 1910, he worked at the Merker publishing house. In 1925, he was appointed to a professorship at the institution that is now the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.
Works
Fiction
- Gedichte (1893)
- Das Gastmahl des Plato, Drama (1895)
- Pierrot bossu, Drama (1896)
- Mozart, twelve poems (1914)
- Florestan Kestners Erfolg, a story (1929)
- Die Nase des Herrn Valentin Berger, Drama (1929)
Academic works
- Johann Strauss II (1909)
- Gustav Mahler (1913)
- Das Wiener Operntheater - Fifty years of memories (1919)
- Die Frau ohne Schatten - Introduction to the music (1919)
- Richard Strauss and his work (1921)
- Julius Bittner (1921)
- Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek - A preliminary study (1922)
- Arthur Schnitzler - The poet and his work. A study (1922)
- Wilhelm Furtwängler (1922)
- Franz Werfel (1926)
- Johannes Brahms: Leben und Werk eines deutschen Meisters (1928; English translation by Eric Blom)
- Giacomo Puccini. Das Leben, der Mensch, das Werk (1931; English translation, 1933)
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