What is Felix Weingartner?
[[File:Felix Weingartner.jpg|300px|thumb|Felix von Weingartner, about 1890]] '''Felix von Weingartner''' (born 2 June 1863; died Winterthur, 7 May 1942) was an [[Austria]]n [[Conducting|conductor]], [[composer]] and [[pianist]]. He is remembered today mainly as a conductor, but he also composed many works. == Life == Weingartner was born in [[Zara]], [[Dalmatia]], which today is called [[Zadar]] in [[Croatia]]. His parents were [[Austria]]n. They were from a [[nobility|noble]] family. Felix had the title Edler von Münzberg. The family moved to [[Graz]] in 1868. His father died that same year. In 1881, he went to [[Leipzig]] to study [[philosophy]], but soon spent all his time on music. He started his studies at the Conservatory in 1883. At the same time he studied with the great composer and pianist [[Franz Liszt]] in [[Weimar]]. Liszt helped him to get his first opera performed. In the same year, 1884, he became the director of the [[Königsberg]] Opera. He got conducting jobs in [[Danzig]], then in [[Hamburg]] and in [[Mannheim]]. From 1891 he was [[Kapellmeister]] of the Royal Opera and conductor of symphony concerts in [[Berlin]]. Then he gave up that job and went to live in [[Munich]]. In 1902, at the Festival of [[Mainz]], Weingartner conducted all the symphonies of [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]. He was becoming famous in Europe as well as in the [[USA]] and in [[South America]]. From 1908 to 1911 he was the main conductor of the [[Vienna Hofoper]], following on from [[Gustav Mahler]]. He kept the job of conductor of the [[Vienna Philharmonic]] until 1927. From 1912 he was again Kapellmeister in Hamburg, but in 1914 he went to [[Darmstadt]]. In 1919-20 he was conductor of the [[Vienna Volksoper]]. In 1920 he was Professor of the [[Franz Liszt Academy of Music|Franz Liszt Academy]] in [[Budapest]]. From 1927 to 1934 he was conductor of the [[Sinfonieorchester Basel]]. He gave his last concert in [[London]] in 1940 and died in Winterthur, [[Switzerland]] two years later. Weingartner was married five t