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Max von Schillings

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Biography

Max Emil Julius von Schillings, born on April 19, 1868 in Düren, Germany, was a composer, conductor, and theatre director. He received early musical training from Caspar Joseph Brambach and Otto von Königslöw in Bonn. After assisting at the Bayreuth Festival in 1892, he worked as a conductor and music teacher in Munich. Schillings became General Music Director at the Königlichen Hoftheater Stuttgart from 1908 to 1918. His opera Mona Lisa premiered in 1915 and was later revived on occasion. He served as General Intendant at the Preußischen Staatsoper zu Berlin from 1919 to 1925 and led concert tours across Europe and the USA starting in 1925. Schillings died on July 24, 1933, following a pulmonary embolism after surgery for intestinal cancer.
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