Wilhelm Jahn

Wilhelm Jahn (24 November 1835, in Dvorce u Bruntálu, Moravia – 21 April 1900, in Vienna) was an Austro-Hungarian conductor. He served as director of the Vienna Court Opera from 1880 to 1897 and principal conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra from 1882 to 1883. He gave the partial premiere of Bruckner's Symphony No. 6, performing the middle two movements in 1883.

Vienna Staatsoper Directors
  • Franz von Dingelstedt (1867)
  • Johann von Herbeck (1870)
  • Franz von Jauner (1875)
  • Wilhelm Jahn (1881)
  • Gustav Mahler (1897)
  • Felix Weingartner (1908)
  • Hans Gregor (1911)
  • Richard Strauss / Franz Schalk (1919)
  • Franz Schalk (1924)
  • Clemens Krauss (1929)
  • Felix Weingartner (1935)
  • Heinrich Karl Strohm (1940)
  • Lothar Müthel (1941)
  • Karl Böhm (1943)
  • Franz Salmhofer (1945)
  • Karl Böhm (1954)
  • Herbert von Karajan (1956)
  • Egon Hilbert (1964)
  • Heinrich Reif-Gintl (1968)
  • Rudolf Gamsjäger (1972)
  • Egon Seefehlner (1976)
  • Lorin Maazel (1982)
  • Egon Seefehlner (1984)
  • Claus Helmut Drese (1986)
  • Eberhard Wächter / Ioan Holender (1991)
  • Ioan Holender (1992)
  • Dominique Meyer (2010)
Vienna Philharmonic Subscription Conductors
  • Otto Nicolai (1842)
  • Karl Anton Eckert (1854)
  • Felix Otto Dessoff (1860)
  • Hans Richter (1875)
  • Wilhelm Jahn (1882)
  • Hans Richter (1883)
  • Gustav Mahler (1898)
  • Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr. (1901)
  • Felix Weingartner (1908)
  • Wilhelm Furtwängler (1927)
  • Clemens Krauss (1929)
Authority control
  • VIAF: 54916332
Persondata
Name Jahn, Wilhelm
Alternative names
Short description Austrian conductor
Date of birth 24 November 1835
Place of birth
Date of death 21 April 1900
Place of death
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