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Seidl, Anton 1850-
Orchestral conductor; born in Budapest, Hungary, May 7, 1850; studied music at the Leipsic Conservatory, and later became a confidential friend and amanuensis of Richard Wagner during the latter's labors at Bayreuth.
After rapidly rising in fame as Wagner's assistant conductor and as a general conductor at Leipsic in 1878 as the leader of the Angelo Neumann tour with the Nibelungen dramas, and at the Bremen Opera House in 1883-85, Mr. Seidl was engaged, in 1885, as conductor for the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, to succeed Dr. Leopold Damrosch.
During his incumbency of this post—which continued intermittently for twelve years —there were produced under his direction, for the first time in America, Wagner's Das Rheingold; Siegfried; Gotterdammerung; Tristan und Isolde; and Die Meistersanger.
In addition to his duties as conductor at the Metropolitan Opera House, Mr. Seidl was, at various times during his residence in the United States, conductor of th
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), Z. (search)
Chapter 8: the Rynders mob
The Anti-slavery meeting at the Broadway Tabernacle on May 7, 1850, which goes by the name of the Rynders Mob, has an interest quite beyond the boundaries of its epoch.
It gives an example of how any disturbance that arises in a public meeting ought to be handled by the managers of the meeting.
It has a lesson for all agitators and popular speakers.
It gives, indeed, a picture of humanity during a turbulent crisis, a picture that is Athenian, Roman, Mediaeval, modern — a scene of democratic life, flung to us from the ages.
I shall copy the account of this meeting almost verbatim from the large Life of Garrison.
No comment can add to the power of it.
We have to remember that Webster had made his famous Compromise speech just two months before this meeting; and that the phalanxes of all conservative people, from George Ticknor, in Boston, to the rowdies on the Bowery in New York, were being marshalled to repress Abolition as they had not been ma
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 10 : the Rynders Mob .—1850 . (search)