Readings about Karl Weigl

Secondary literature
Published obituaries
Recommendations, posthumous tributes, and commemorative open letters

Secondary literature (in alphabetical order by author)

Anon. “Karl Weigl fünfzig Jahre alt.” Arbeiterzeitung (Vienna), 6 February 1931.

_____. “Karl Weigl—Friedrich Wildgans.” Radio–Wien 29 (16 April 1937): 4.

Adler, Kurt. “Dear M & A (a letter from Kurt Adler, Conductor and Chorusmaster of the Metropolitan Opera; Advisory Board Karl Weigl Memorial Fund).” Music & Artists 1, no. 4 (1968): 26–27. See also two undated five-page typescript drafts with handwritten revisions, titled “Karl Weigl (1881–1949),” MSS 73, fol. 26/835, The Karl Weigl Papers in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University. (Read text)

Becher, Christoph. “Karl Weigl und seine Musik.” Paper presented in Vienna, May 1998.

Biba, Otto. “Julius Korngold über junge österreichische Komponisten (1926).” In Prima le parole e poi la musica: Festschrift für Herbert Zeman zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. Elisabeth Buxbaum and Wynfried Kriegleder, 399–402. Vienna: Edition Praesens, 2000.

Clayton, Alfred. “Alexander Zemlinskys künstlerisch–pädagogische Beziehungen zu seinen Schülern.” In Alexander Zemlinsky: Ästhetik, Stil und Umfeld, ed. Hartmut Krones, 301–14. Wiener Schriften zur Stilkunde und Aufführungspraxis 1. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1995.

Davis, Wendell R. "Songs of Karl Weigl: A Commentary for Performers." DMA thesis for Indiana University, 1984.

_____. “Karl Weigl: A Song Catalogue.” Journal of Singing: The Official Journal of the National Association of Teachers of Singing 45, no. 3 (January–February 1988–1989): 22–27.

Erwin, Charlotte, and Michael Mechna. “Karl Weigl.” In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell, 27:218. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001.

Fermi, Laura. Illustrious Immigrants: The Intellectual Migration from Europe, 1930–41. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971; first published 1968.

Fleischmann, H[ugo] R. “Biographische Skizzen moderner Musiker: XIII. Karl Weigl.” Wiener Musikpädagogische Zeitung (Vienna, 1913): n.p. (Read text)

Flotzinger, Rudolf, and Gernot Gruber, eds. Von der Revolution 1848 zur Gegenwart. Vol. 3 of Musikgeschichte Österreichs. 2nd ed. Graz, Vienna, Köln: Böhlau, 1995; first published 1977–1979 in 2 vols. See esp. 143, 198, 203, 205, 333.

Hailey, Christopher. “The Music of Karl Weigl.” Paper presented at the conference ”Emigrés—A Weekend’s Celebration on the South Bank of the Music of Berthold Goldschmidt and Karl Weigl,” London, 15 April 1988.

_____. Introduction to “Concert I” and “Concert II.” Program book notes for the conference ”Emigrés—A Weekend’s Celebration on the South Bank of the Music of Berthold Goldschmidt and Karl Weigl,” London, 15 April 1988.

_____. “Craft and Kultur: Karl Weigl, Vienna, and the Question of Mastery.” Paper presented at the conference “Viennese Crosscurrents: Karl Weigl, Neo–Romanticism, and the Modernist Movement,” University of Chicago Department of Music, 2 December 1989.

Hoffmann, R[udolf] St[ephan]. “Wiener Konzerte.” Der Merker 4, no. 11 (June 1913): 435–36, esp. 435.

_____. “Karl Weigl.” Musikblätter des Anbruch 3, nos. 15–16 (October 1921): 282–86.

_____. “Karl Weigls Neue Symphonie.” Musikblätter des Anbruch 5, nos. 6–7 (June–July 1923), 200–201.

_____. “Karl Weigl.” Musikblätter des Anbruch 6, nos. 15–16 (October 1924), 387. (Read text)

_____. “Musik im heutigen Oesterreich: Karl Weigl, der Wiener.” Königsberger Hartungsche Zeitung: Blätter für Musik 328, 14 July 1928. (Read text)

Hrdlicka, Teresa. “Apropos Karl Weigl.” Monatszeitschrift der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde 11 (November 1989): n.p.

Illich, Gerlinde. “Echo: Karl Weigl wieder zu entdecken: Initiativen von ‘Orpheus Trust; und ‘Heiligenkreuzer Herbst.’” Österreichische Musikzeitung 54, no. 12 (1999): 54–55.

_____. “Karl Weigl: Leben und Werk.” In Give Them Music: Musiktherapie im Exil am Beispiel von Vally Weigl, ed. Elena Fitzthum and Primavera Gruber, 82–89. Wiener Beiträge zur Musiktherapie 6. Vienna: Edition Praesens, 2003.

Jewanski, Jörg. "Weigl, Karl." In Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, ed. Ludwig Finscher, 17: 661–62. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2007.

Komorn, Maria. “Zum Konzert am Sonntag, 12. April: Karl Weigl.” Radio–Wien 7, no. 28 (10 April 1931): 14.

Kowalke, Kim. “Lost in the Stars and Stripes: Refugee Composers in America.” Paper presented at the conference “Viennese Crosscurrents: Karl Weigl, Neo– Romanticism, and the Modernist Movement,” University of Chicago Department of Music, 2 December 1989.

List, Rudolf. "Ein Österreichischer Musiker in Amerika: Zum Schaffen des Wiener Karl Weigl." Austria: Die Welt im Spiegel Österreichs, Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Geistesleben 2, no. 7 (July 1947): 278. (Read text)

Lustgarten, Egon. “Neue Wiener Musik in Salzburg.” Musikblätter des Anbruch 4, nos. 13–14 (July 1922): 199–203, esp. 201.

Mann, Alfred. “Karl Weigl and the Law of Polarity: Comments on a Mid–Century American Essay.” Paper presented at The Karl Weigl Festival Symposium, Wayne State University, 2 September 1987.

Marschall. “Karl Weigl.” Radio Wien 47 (18–26 November 1933): n.p.

Marsh, Robert C. “A Composer Who Deserves a Hearing.” Chicago Sun Times, 3 November 1965.

Mischussen, Mary. “Karl Weigl: Conservative Composer in an Era of Modernism.” Paper presented at The Karl Weigl Festival Symposium, Wayne State University, 2 September 1987.

Miller, Philip L. "Karl Weigl: A Centennial Appreciation." American Record Guide 44, no. 10 (September 1981): 2–6.

Moldenhauer, Hans. “Karl Weigl.” In Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, ed. Friedrich Blume, 14:383, 386. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1951–1986.

Morgan, Robert. “Contradictions and Battle Cries: Vienna, Weigl, and the Third and Fifth String Quartets.” Paper presented at the conference “Viennese Crosscurrents: Karl Weigl, Neo–Romanticism, and the Modernist Movement,” University of Chicago Department of Music, 2 December 1989.

Müller, Paul. “Karl Weigl: Weltfeier, Sinfonische Kantate für Tenor und Baritonsolo, gemischten Chor und großes Orchester, op. 17.” Allgemeine Musik–Zeitung (21 May 1926): 441–43.

Müller von Asow, Erich H. “Karl Weigl.” In Deutsches Musiker–Lexikon. Dresden, 1929.

Newsom, Jon, and Alfred Mann, eds. The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial: Music History from Primary Sources: A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2000. See esp. 716–17.

Oberkogler, Wolfgang. “Karl Weigl.” In Das Streichquartettschaffen in Wien von 1910 bis 1925, 142–62. Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikwissenschaft 22. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1982.

Pass, Walter, Gerhard Scheit, and Wilhelm Svoboda. Orpheus im Exil: Die Vertreibung der österreichischen Musik von 1938 bis 1945. Antifaschistische Literatur und Exilliteratur 13. Vienna: Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, 1995.

Piers, Maria Weigl. “50 Jahre danach 1938–1988: Karl Weigl.” Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 43, no. 4 (1988): 196–97.

Roger, Kurt. “Karl Weigl.” Radio Wien 10, no. 8 (17 November 1933): 7.

Sargeant, Winthrop. “Musical Events: Grant Opera?” New Yorker (24 February 1968): 108–15, esp. 110, 112. (Read text)

Sargeant, WInthrop. “Musical Events: Deeps and Shallows.” New Yorker (9 November 1968): 211–14, esp. 211–12. (Read text)

Seelig, Harry E. “Literary–Musical Aspects of Karl Weigl’s Heine Settings.” Paper presented at The Karl Weigl Festival Symposium, Wayne State University, 2 September 1987.

_____. “Karl Weigl's Op. 1 in Its 19th–century Context: A Historic Literary–Musical Fusion of Goethe's ‘Wanderers Nachtlied’ and ‘Ein Gleiches.’” Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts, 2:579–606. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.

Schmidt, Stefan. “Weigl Ehepaar.” In Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon, ed. Rudolf Flotzinger, 5:2605. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2006.

Shreffler, Anne. “Karl Weigl's Vocal Music: The Viennese Context.” Paper presented at the conference “Viennese Crosscurrents: Karl Weigl, Neo– Romanticism, and the Modernist Movement,” University of Chicago Department of Music, 2 December 1989.

Specht, Richard. “Die Jungwiener Tondichter.” Die Musik 9, no. 7 (January 1910): 3–16.

Stengel, Theo, and Herbert Gerigk, eds. Lexikon der Juden in der Musik. Mit einem Titelverzeichnis jüdischer Werke. Zusammengestellt im Auftrag der Reichsleitung der NSDAP auf Grund behördlicher, parteiamtlich geprüfter Unterlagen. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts der NSDAP zur Erforschung der Judenfrage. Vol. 2. Berlin: Bernhard Hahnefeld, 1941.

Szmolyan, Walter. “Ein Karl–Weigl–Symposium im Stift Altenburg.” Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 44, no. 12 (December 1989): 644–45.

Vernon–Warren, Bettina, and Charles Warren, eds. Gertrud Bodenwieser and Vienna's Contribution to Ausdruckstanz. Choreography and Dance Studies 18. Australia: Harwood Academic Publishers and Amsterdam: Overseas Publishers Association, 1999; see in particular Charles Warren, “Bodenwieser Teaching in Vienna and Australia,” 57–74, esp. 61; Emmy Steininger, “Working with Bodenwieser in the Thirties,” 97–99; Bettina Vernon, “Bodenwieser’s Lasting Influence from 1926 to 1995,” 113–52, esp. 143–44.

Waleson, Heidi. Introduction to “The Music of Karl Weigl (1881–1949): A Catalog,” 2–7. San Rafael, CA: Karl Weigl Foundation, 1987.

Walton, Chris, ed. Czeslaw Marek: Komponist, Pianist, Pädagoge: Leben und Schaffen in Dokumenten. Jugenderinnerungen; Erinnerungen an seine Studienzeit bei Theodor Leschetizky, Karl Weigl und Hans Pfitzner; Programme der Konzerte Mareks; Werkverzeichnis. Winterthur, Switzerland: Amadeus, 1999.

Weissweiler, Eva. Ausgemerzt! Das Lexikon der Juden in der Musik und seine mörderischen Folgen. Cologne: Dittrich Verlag, 1999.

Published obituaries ( a selection, in chronological order)

 “Dr. Karl Weigl, 68, Composer, Teacher: Viennese-Born Conductor Dies—Wrote 8 String Quartets, 6 Symphonies, 4 Concerti.” New York Times, 12 August 1949. (Read text)

“Dr. Karl Weigl.” New York Sun, 12 August 1949. (Read text)

“Dr. Karl Weigl, Music Teacher.” New York Journal America, 12 August 1949. (Read text)

“Dr. Karl Weigl: Composer, Conductor, Professor, Left Vienna for U.S. in 1938.” New York Herald Tribune, 12 August 1949. (Read text)

“Dr. Karl Weigl: Composer, Teacher.” Brooklyn Eagle, 12 August 1949. (Read text)

“Obituary: Karl Weigl.” [Unidentified source], September 1949: 42 [includes the reproduction of a drawing of Weigl by B. F. Dolbin]. (Read text)

F. S. “Kunst und Kultur: Karl Weigl ist gestorben.” Arbeiter Zeitung, Vienna, 20 October 1949. (Read text)

Dr. F. [Paul Josef Frankl]. “Aus der Zeit: Karl Weigl Ist Gestorben.” Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 4, no. 12 (December 1949): 347. (Read text)

[Bacon, Ernst]. " Mephisto’s Musings: Tribute to Karl Weigl." Musical America (1 January 1950): n.p. (Read text)

Recommendations, posthumous tributes, and commemorative open letters (a selection, in chronological order)

Arnold Schoenberg to Arnold Rosé, handwritten letter, dated 9 June 1904. (Read text)

Richard Strauss, typewritten general recommendation, dated 12 March 1921. (Read text)

Arnold Schoenberg to Rudolf Ganz, typewritten letter, dated 1 June 1938. (Read text)

Arnold Schoenberg to Roy Spencer Welch, typewritten letter, dated 1 June 1938. (Read text)

Roy Spencer Welch to Arnold Schoenberg, responding to Schoenberg’s letter recommending Karl Weigl, typewritten letter, dated 8 June 1938. (Read text)

Ernst Bacon to Irving Maurer, president of Beloit College, typewritten letter, dated 16 July 1938. (Read text)

Artur Bodanzky to unknown recipient, typewritten letter of recommendation, dated 19 October 1938. (Read text)

Bruno Walter, general recommendation with letterhead from The Dorset, in New York, dated 26 March 1939. (Read text)

Artur Bodanzky to Mr. Swinford, typewritten recommendation, on Metropolitan Opera House stationery, dated 22 May 1939. (Read text)

Walter Damrosch to the Emergency Committee, letter of recommendation, undated [but presumably predating the death, on 24 November 1939, of Artur Bodanzky, to whom Damrosch refers in present tense]. (Read text)

Alfred Einstein to Betty Drury, of the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars, typewritten letter on Smith College stationery, dated 10 October 1941. (Read text)

Pablo Casals, written statement, dated 1941[?]. (Read text)

John Erskine, of the Teachers College, Montclair, New Jersey, to unidentified recipient at Sarah Lawrence College, typewritten letter, dated 20 May 1943. (Read text)

Rudolf Serkin, handwritten general recommendation, dated 20 April 1945. (Read text)

Bruno Walter, typewritten general recommendation, dated 8 June 1945. (Read text)

Samuel R. Wachtell to Moses Smith of Columbia Broadcasting Co., letter, undated. (Read text)

Office of the Dean, School of Music, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, to friends and supporters of Karl Weigl, open letter, dated March 1951. (Read text)

Josef Marx, in Wiener Zeitung, 18 February 1951. (Read text)

Leopold Stokowski to Peter Mennin, chairman of the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation in New York, typewritten letter, dated 5 April 1968. (Read text)

Kurt Adler to friends and supporters of the Karl Weigl Memorial Fund, open letter, dated 19 December 1968.

Kurt Adler to friends of the Karl Weigl Memorial Fund, open letter, dated 16 April 1971.

Kurt Adler to friends of the Karl Weigl Memorial Fund, open letter, dated 15 April 1973.

Thomas Sanderling, after recording Karl Weigl's Symphony No. 5 in 2002. (Read text)

Othmar Müller, of the Artis Quartet, in 2011. (Read text)