Jochum Missa Solemnis Program Booklet (December 17, 1941)

11th Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Concert (1941/42)

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123

Anna Konetzni (Soprano)
Elfriede Schürhoff (Alto)
Anton Dermota (Tenor)
Hans Hermann Nissen (Bass)

Conducted by Eugen Jochum
Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Wednesday, December 17, 1941, 7:30 PM
Grosser Musikvereinssaal, Vienna

Program Booklet
Approximately A5 size, 16 pages

*Due to being approximately 80 years old and the poor quality paper during the war:
Significant sun fading,
Crease marks from folding present.

Biography:
Born in 1902 into a Roman Catholic family in Babenhausen (de), near Augsburg, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire (present-day Swabia, Bavaria).
His father was an organist and conductor.
Jochum studied piano and organ in Augsburg and attended the local music school from 1914 to 1922.
He then studied composition with Hermann von Waltershausen at the Munich Academy of Music, but later changed his major to conducting and studied under Siegmund von Hausegger.
Hausegger was the conductor who premiered and made the first recording of the original version of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 9.
Died in Tutzing, near Munich, in 1987 at the age of 84.

Chronology:
1926: Debut conducting the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
1927-1929: Music Director, Kiel Opera House
1929-1930: General Music Director, National Theatre Mannheim
1930-1932: General Music Director, City of Duisburg
1932-1934: Principal Conductor, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
1934-1949: General Music Director, Hamburg State Opera (concurrently Principal Conductor of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra)
1949-1960: Principal Conductor, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
1961-1964: Principal Conductor, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam (jointly with Bernard Haitink)
1968-1971: Artistic Advisor, Bamberg Symphony
1971-1973: Principal Conductor, Bamberg Symphony
1977: Conductor Laureate, London Symphony Orchestra

Mercari Information:
- Event Name: Erstes Gesellschafts-Konzert

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