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Arthur Nikisch
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Hungary
- Active from
- 1855
- Active to
- 1922
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 111
- Total plays
- 529
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Arthur
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Austria
- Place of birth
- Liptovský Mikuláš
- Place of death
- Leipzig
- Child
- Mitja Nikisch
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Student of
- Felix Otto Dessoff
- Field of work
- conducting
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Deutsche Grammophon
- Image
- Arthur Nikisch LCCN2014712922 (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- Bučovice
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- Commons category
- Arthur Nikisch
- date of birth
- 1855-10-12
- date of death
- 1922-01-24
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- student
- Wilhelm Furtwängler
- member of
- Berlin Philharmonic
- place of burial
- Leipzig South Cemetery
- name in native language
- Nikisch Artúr
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Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to Arthur Nikisch, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
![Ich hab' ein kleines Lied erdacht : [Lieder op. 49, Nr. 9] / von Bungert](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.slub-dresden.de%2Ffon%2Fsnp%2Fb%2F006745%2Ffon_snp_b_006745_01.jpg&type=IMAGE)
![Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten? : [Lieder op. 19 / TrV 152, Nr. 4] / von Strauss](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.slub-dresden.de%2Ffon%2Fsnp%2Fb%2F006745%2Ffon_snp_b_006745_02.jpg&type=IMAGE)
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Encyclopedic overview
Arthur Nikisch. Arthur Nikisch (12 October 1855 – 23 January 1922) was a Hungarian conductor who performed internationally, holding posts in Boston, London, Leipzig and—most importantly—Berlin. He was considered an outstanding interpreter of the music of Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Liszt. Johannes Brahms praised Nikisch's performance of his Fourth Symphony as "quite exemplary, it's impossible to hear it any better."
Biography
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