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the role and contribution of immigrant musicians to the music societies ...
schied for violin and piano was performed in Celje, probably by G. Mayer
and Schavel.128
Eduard Interberger (1868–1942) 129 moved from Graz to Celje in 1900
and stayed there for almost 40 years. He was the organist of the local Lu-
theran congregation. Music lessons, concerts, compositions, and service as
an organist provided him with a secure livelihood, but he lost his fortune
because he invested it exclusively in war bonds. He was one of the closest
friends of Moritz Schachenhofer. For almost two decades he lived main-
ly on the large annual donations of a generous circle of friends, until he
moved back to Graz in 1939. He wrote numerous compositions: orchestral
pieces, chamber music, choral music, Lieder and pieces for piano and vi-
olin. The composer received the greatest recognition when he dedicated a
choir to Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) in 1935 on the occasion of the return of the
Saar region to Germany, for which he received a letter of thanks and a con-
siderable sum of money from the chancellor’s private purse.130
Following his retirement in 1903 Oskar Friedrich Rieding (1846–1916)131
moved to Celje, where he continued working as composer and private vio-
128 Anon., “Mitglieder-Concert des Cillier Musikvereines,” 7.
129 Eduard Interberger was born in Graz on 19 July 1868. He lost his sight due to an ac-
cident with a crane and devoted himself entirely to music. Despite his blindness, he
received a solid musical education in piano, organ playing and theory. He continued
his musical education in Graz and Vienna. His first organ concerts in the Graz Ca-
thedral attracted the attention of the musical public in the Styrian capital. Due to fi-
nancial difficulties, he moved back to Graz in 1939, where he lived with his sister and
died on 17 December 1942.
130 Anon., “Abschied von Meister Interberger,” Mariborer Zeitung, August 20, 1939, 6;
Zangger, Künstlergäste, 45–6; Anon., “Organist Eduard Interberger umrl,” Slovenski
narod, January 7, 1943, 2.
131 Oskar Friedrich Rieding was born in Prussian town of Bahn (now Banie, Poland),
where his father Gottfried Friedrich Rieding was a town doctor. It remains unknown
where he acquired his first music training, but some sources suggest that he stud-
ied violin, piano, and composition at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst in Berlin in
the late 1850s, where his violin teacher was Adolf Grünwald. He then continued his
music studies at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1862 and 1864 in the class of the
Prague violinist Raimund Dreyschock, who was the second concertmaster of the
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. After his studies, Rieding visited Vienna and Mu-
nich, but we have no detailed information about this period, and sources indicate he
was also a member of the theatre orchestra in Baden near Vienna. He first appeared
in today’s Slovenia in 1870 in Ljubljana where he gave two performances on the stage
of the Estates Theatre and the Philharmonic Society, and one more in 1871. In the
same year Rieding moved to Pest (part of today’s Budapest), where he spent 32 years
as first violinist of the National Theatre Orchestra (which later became the Royal Op-
era Orchestra). There he wrote his first instructive violin pieces, which were followed
by his now-famous series of “easy” concertos and concertinos for violin and piano.
363
schied for violin and piano was performed in Celje, probably by G. Mayer
and Schavel.128
Eduard Interberger (1868–1942) 129 moved from Graz to Celje in 1900
and stayed there for almost 40 years. He was the organist of the local Lu-
theran congregation. Music lessons, concerts, compositions, and service as
an organist provided him with a secure livelihood, but he lost his fortune
because he invested it exclusively in war bonds. He was one of the closest
friends of Moritz Schachenhofer. For almost two decades he lived main-
ly on the large annual donations of a generous circle of friends, until he
moved back to Graz in 1939. He wrote numerous compositions: orchestral
pieces, chamber music, choral music, Lieder and pieces for piano and vi-
olin. The composer received the greatest recognition when he dedicated a
choir to Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) in 1935 on the occasion of the return of the
Saar region to Germany, for which he received a letter of thanks and a con-
siderable sum of money from the chancellor’s private purse.130
Following his retirement in 1903 Oskar Friedrich Rieding (1846–1916)131
moved to Celje, where he continued working as composer and private vio-
128 Anon., “Mitglieder-Concert des Cillier Musikvereines,” 7.
129 Eduard Interberger was born in Graz on 19 July 1868. He lost his sight due to an ac-
cident with a crane and devoted himself entirely to music. Despite his blindness, he
received a solid musical education in piano, organ playing and theory. He continued
his musical education in Graz and Vienna. His first organ concerts in the Graz Ca-
thedral attracted the attention of the musical public in the Styrian capital. Due to fi-
nancial difficulties, he moved back to Graz in 1939, where he lived with his sister and
died on 17 December 1942.
130 Anon., “Abschied von Meister Interberger,” Mariborer Zeitung, August 20, 1939, 6;
Zangger, Künstlergäste, 45–6; Anon., “Organist Eduard Interberger umrl,” Slovenski
narod, January 7, 1943, 2.
131 Oskar Friedrich Rieding was born in Prussian town of Bahn (now Banie, Poland),
where his father Gottfried Friedrich Rieding was a town doctor. It remains unknown
where he acquired his first music training, but some sources suggest that he stud-
ied violin, piano, and composition at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst in Berlin in
the late 1850s, where his violin teacher was Adolf Grünwald. He then continued his
music studies at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1862 and 1864 in the class of the
Prague violinist Raimund Dreyschock, who was the second concertmaster of the
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. After his studies, Rieding visited Vienna and Mu-
nich, but we have no detailed information about this period, and sources indicate he
was also a member of the theatre orchestra in Baden near Vienna. He first appeared
in today’s Slovenia in 1870 in Ljubljana where he gave two performances on the stage
of the Estates Theatre and the Philharmonic Society, and one more in 1871. In the
same year Rieding moved to Pest (part of today’s Budapest), where he spent 32 years
as first violinist of the National Theatre Orchestra (which later became the Royal Op-
era Orchestra). There he wrote his first instructive violin pieces, which were followed
by his now-famous series of “easy” concertos and concertinos for violin and piano.
363
