Heuberger, Richard Franz Joseph senior#
b. Graz (Styria), June 18, 1850, d. Vienna, Oct. 28, 1914, composer, conductor, music critic, father of Richard Heuberger jr. Successor of E. Hanslick on the newspaper "Neue Freie Presse"); headed the academic singing society and the singing academy, from 1902 teacher at the Vienna Conservatory.
Works#
4 operas, 2 ballets, 10 operettas ("Opernball", 1898), folkloric songs, male choirs, instrumental pieces; Musikbuch aus Oe., 3 vols., 1904-1906 (ed.).Literature#
P. Grunsky, R. H. Leben und Werk, 3 vols., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1997; NDB.