(b Bratislava, 22 Dec 1874; d Perchtoldsdorf, 11 Feb 1939). Austrian composer. A pupil of Bruckner and Fuchs at the Vienna Conservatory, he was cellist in the Vienna Hofoper orchestra (1896-1911, for much of the time under Mahler), then taught at the Staatsakademie (1914-27) and the Musikhochschule (1927-31). In his music he continued the grand tradition, with peripheral influence from Schoenberg, Debussy and Hindemith: his works include four symphonies (1899, 1913, 1928, 1933), by which he made his name, the orchestral Variationen über ein Husarenlied (1931), chamber music (two string quartets, a piano quintet and two quintets for clarinet, piano and strings), organ pieces, the oratorio Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln (1937) and two operas (Notre Dame, 1904; Fredigundis, 1921).

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