Ferdinand Hellmesberger
Ferdinand Hellmesberger (24 January 1863 – 15 March 1940) was an Austrian cellist and conductor.
Ferdinand Hellmesberger
Leonid Utka · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Born
- 1863.
- Died
- 1940.
- Nationality
- Austria.
- Occupation
- conductor, cellist, composer, chapelmaster, musician and ballet master.
- Fields
- classical music.
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Ferdinand Hellmesberger (24 January 1863 – 15 March 1940) was an Austrian cellist and conductor.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
No house-authored Note is published until its assertions and sources pass the VALÉORINE evidence contract. The documentary article remains available in full while that enrichment is being consolidated.
Documentary enrichment in progress · no unsupported statement published
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Ferdinand Hellmesberger. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
Documentary evidence
Evidence Panel
not yet certified
- Identity
- resolved
- Independent source families
- 0
- Admitted assertions
- 0
- Open conflicts
- 0
Authority files
wikidata · Q78902 · wikipedia · Ferdinand Hellmesberger
In this article
Biography
Biography
He was born in Vienna to Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr. Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr. was his brother. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Karl Udel (cello) and Anton Bruckner (music theory). He was a member of the Vienna Hofburgkapelle from 1879. From 1883 he became a member of the Hellmesberger Quartet. In 1884, aged twenty-one, he became teacher at the Vienna Conservatory and in 1889 he became professor, which he remained until 1902. He was later, in 1896, solo cellist at the court opera. In 1902 he became Kapellmeister at the Vienna Volksoper under Carl Rainer Simons. In 1905 he took on as ballet conductor at the Königlichen Oper of Berlin. From 1910 and on he worked as Kurkapellmeister in Abbazia (now in Croatia), Baden bei Wien, Marienbad (now in Czech Republic), and Karlsbad (now in Czech Republic) At the time of his death in Vienna, he was the last of a family that played an important role in the Vienna musical life. Among his students at the Vienna Conservatory was Franz Schmidt.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1940
Ferdinand Hellmesberger died at Vienna.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Partially resolvedreference work
Partially resolved
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Music memorabilia
42,307 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Ferdinand Giovanni SchediwyPerson
- Ferdinand GrossmannPerson
- Ferdinand GumbertPerson
- Ferdinand HavlíkPerson
- Ferdinand HéroldPerson
- Ferdinand HillerPerson
- Ferdinand HummelPerson
- Ferdinand KauerPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Ferdinand Hellmesberger?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.