Peter nikisch biography

Hungarian conductor

The native form of this personal name is Nikisch Artúr. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Arthur Nikisch (12 October 1855 – 23 January 1922) was a Hungarianconductor who performed internationally, holding posts in Boston, London, Leipzig and—most importantly—Berlin.

He was considered an outstanding interpreter of the music of Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Liszt. Johannes Brahms praised Nikisch's performance of his Fourth Symphony as "quite exemplary, it's impossible to hear it any better."

Biography

Arthur Augustinus Adalbertus Nikisch was born in Mosonszentmiklós, Hungary, to a Hungarian father and a mother from Moravia.

Nikisch was considered a musical prodigy from a young age; he made a public piano performance at the age of eight.^[1] In 1866, he began his studies at the Vienna Conservatory. There he studied under the composer Felix Otto Dessoff, the conducto