Kalbeck, Max ursprünglich Karpeles, Pseudonym Jeremias Deutlich#
b. Wroclaw (Poland), Jan. 4, 1850, d. Vienna, May 4, 1921, music author and critic. From 1880 in Vienna, critic for the newspapers "Wiener allgemeine Zeitung", "Neue Freie Presse" and others. Wrote and translated a number of libretti, close friend and biographer of J. Brahms.
Works#
libretti: Jakuba (J. Strauss), Das stille Dorf (A. Fielitz), Nubia (G. Henschel), Decius der Floetenspieler (E. Poldini), Die Hochzeit zu Ulfosa (P. Caro). - Publications: Das Buehnenfestspiel zu Bayreuth, 1877; Gereimtes und Ungereimtes, 1885; J. Brahms, 4 vols., 1904-1914.Literature#
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