page_title: Artur Bodanzky
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Artur Bodanzky / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: The gravesite of Artur Bodanzky in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
context_page_description: Artur Bodanzky was an Austrian-American conductor particularly associated with the operas of Wagner.
context_section_description: The son of Jewish merchants, Bodanzky studied the violin and composition with Alexander Zemlinsky  Bodanzky then became conducting assistant to Gustav Mahler in Vienna, later going on to jobs in Berlin, the Neues Deutsches Theater in Prague (August 1907), where he was briefly a colleague of Otto Klemperer and Mannheim.  In 1915 he emigrated to the United States to work for the Metropolitan Opera, being replaced at Mannheim by Wilhelm Furtwängler.  He was head of German repertory at the Met, being accepted by Arturo Toscanini on the recommendation of Ferruccio Busoni.  In 1921 he was engaged by the New York Philharmonic as a guest conductor.  In 1928, Bodanzky announced his resignation from the Met and was replaced by Joseph Rosenstock.  However, Rosenstock received such criticism in the press that he himself resigned almost immediately on medical advice, and Bodanzky was rehired, and remained at the Met until his death in 1939.  He was approached by Thomas Beecham to conduct at Covent Garden in 1936, but his requested fee of ₤250 for each performance was considered exorbitant.
caption: The gravesite of Artur Bodanzky in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
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