Who Is Klaus Pringsheim's Operatic Symphony Yamada Nangamaza

Operatic Symphony ‘Yamada Nangamaza’ by Klaus Pringsheim (1883-1972). A German composer, conducter, and pianist who was the most influential idol who played a very successful role as an outstanding pupil of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Mahler was the great composer of Romantic era who has been recognized as the most superior romantic composers. Pringsheim was a German Composer and Conductor, born in 1883 at Starnberg, the outskirts of Munich, where there was a villa owned by his family, he died in December 1972 at his temporary abode in Shimo-ochiai, Tokyo. Prinsheim’s operatic symphony, ‘Yamada Nangamaza’, the piece which is contained the influences and atmosphere of Thai music idioms. The publication of the research result has been done in …show more content…
After graduation from University of Munich, he went to Vienna to studied Conducting and Music Theory with Gustav Mahler, who was a music director of the Vienna Royal Opera Theatre whereby he worked as a rehearsal pianist and assistant conductor of Mahler. When he was 24 years old in 1906, he took a post as principle conductor of Geneva Grand Theatre under Mahler’s recommendation. His career as conductor had persuaded him to many major cities of Europe in the following years. In 1918, the year when the Word War I ended, he moved to Berlin and was active in conducting and composing at the Grand Theatre with the directorship of Max Reinhardt. Moreover, he was the leader of “Golden 1920’s”, which was involved in various activities such as frequent guest performances with Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, lectures at the University of Berlin, writing reviews for the newspaper and etc. In 1931, he came to Japan at the age of 48, because of disappointment from the position as the Director in General at Berlin Municipal Theatre. He decided to take a professorship position at Tokyo Imperial Academy of Music (Tokyo University of Music and Fine Arts or Tokyo