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Feb 10, 1864 Teplice, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic Died on 17 Jun 1928 (aged 64)
German conductor
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About Karl Pohlig
- Karl Pohlig (10 February 1864 – 17 June 1928) was a German Bohemian conductor born in Teplitz, Bohemia, Austrian Empire.
- He studied cello and piano in Weimar, and later taught piano there.
- In 1901 in Stuttgart he became the first conductor to perform the complete version of Bruckner's Symphony No.
- 6.
- This symphony had been performed before in excerpts and in an edited-down version by Gustav Mahler. Pohlig became conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1907 to 1912.
- He invited Sergei Rachmaninoff to make his U.S.
- debut with the orchestra in 1909.
- In 1912, he resigned in disgrace after the revelation that he was involved in an extramarital affair with his Swedish secretary.
- However, Pohlig also sued the orchestra for breach of contract, as he had one year remaining on his contract at that time.
- He received a settlement of one year's salary.
- Pohlig concluded his career as conductor of the Braunschweig court opera in Germany, the city in which he died.
