Hermann (Theodor Otto) Graedener (Grädener) (born Kiel, May 8, 1844; died Vienna, Sept 18, 1929), German conductor and and composer of the Brahms circle in Vienna. Graedener studied at Vienna University, becoming a professor there in 1882, and taught music theory and composition at the Vienna Conservatory from 1875 to 1912. Graedener and Schenker Schenker reviewed several of Graedener's compositions, notably his Piano Quintet No. 2, on which he wrote extensively with lavish music examples in 1892, referring to its "wholesale, huge richness." Graedener was one of those whom the administrration of the Vienna Conservatory pensioned off in 1912, together with Robert Fuchs. Schenker's friend Moriz Violin emphasized these two enforced retirements in his pamphlet of protest Die Zustände an der k. k. Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst (Vienna: Violin, 1912), pp. 15-18 ("whose work at Vienna's Music High School will never be forgotten, whose teaching has enriched that institution honorably"). Graedener's first wife was Irene Graedener (née Mayerhofer), one of Schenker's patrons. Hermann and she had two children, Irene and Hermann, the latter of whom Schenker taught. Hermann's second wife was Josefine Polzer. Correspondence One letter from Graedener to Schenker survives (OJ 11/24: 1901). Bibliography: Sources: Das Jahrbuch der Wiener Gesellschaft 1928, ed. Franz Planer (Vienna, 1928), p. 102 Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon ONLINE, ed. Rudolf Flotzinger: http://epub.oeaw.ac.at/ml?frames=yes |
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