Max Vogrich (24 January 185210 June 1916) was an Austria

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n pianist and composer.

Max Vogrich was born in Hermannstadt, Transylvania

Transylvania

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 (now Sibiu

Sibiu

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, Romania

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). A childhood prodigy, he was an acclaimed pianist at the age of 14 years. He studied at Leipzig

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 under Carl Reinecke

Carl Reinecke

Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist.-Biography:Reinecke was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany; until 1864 the town was under Danish rule. He studied with his father, Johann Peter Rudolph Reinecke, a music teacher...

, Hans Richter

Hans Richter (conductor)

Hans Richter was an Austrian orchestral and operatic conductor.-Biography:Richter was born in Raab , Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother was opera-singer Jozsefa Csazenszky. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory...

, Moritz Hauptmann

Moritz Hauptmann

Moritz Hauptmann , was a German music theorist, teacher and composer.Hauptmann was born in Dresden, and studied violin under Scholz, piano under Franz Lanska, composition under Grosse and Francesco Morlacchi,...

, Wenzel, and Ignaz Moscheles

Ignaz Moscheles

Ignaz Moscheles was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as head of the Conservatoire.-Sources:Much of what we know about Moscheles's life...

, completing the studies in 1869. From 1870 to 1878 he was engaged in concert tours throughout continental Europe, South America, and the United States. From 1882 to 1886 he was engaged in concert tours and teaching in Australia, after which he went to New York City

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, where he lived for some time. He died there in 1916.

His works include the opera

Opera

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s Vanda (1875), Lanzelot (1890), King Arthur (1893), and Buddha (1904); an oratorio

Oratorio

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, The Captivity (1891); the cantata

Cantata

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s The Young King and the Sheperdess and The Diver; several masses

Mass (music)

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, symphonies

Symphony

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, violin and pianoforte concerto

Concerto

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s, and sonatas, besides duets, songs, and chamber music.

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