Felix Weingartner, born to Austrian parents in Zadar in what is now Croatia, was four years old when Grove and Sullivan recovered Schubert's Rosamunde music. The following year the Weingartners moved to Graz. Felix entered the Leipzig Conservatory and became one of Liszt's later puplis. He spent much of his career in German opera houses. In 1908 he succeeded Mahler as conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic, a post he retained until 1927 when he was to become Director of Music in the Swiss city of Basle. In 1937, Sir Adrian Boult presented Weingartner with the Gold Medal of the Royal Phiharmonic Society, the same Society which back in 1844 had found Schubert's Ninth Symphony so risible. Weingartner conducted his last concert in London in 1940.

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