Hugo Reinhold
1854 — 1935
Hugo Reinhold was an Austrian composer and pianist.
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Hugo Reinhold, born in Vienna in 1854, began his musical training as a choir-boy of the Hofkapelle before becoming a pupil at the Conservatorium der Musikfreunde until 1874. There, he studied with notable figures such as Bruckner, Dessoff, and Epstein, benefiting from an endowment provided by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and earning a silver medal (Grove’s Dictionary, 1922). Reinhold was also the inaugural recipient of the Beethoven Prize, a 500-gulden award established in 1875 by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, open exclusively to former pupils of the Vienna Conservatorium, which he won in 1879 (Dictionary of Music, 1896). His compositions, which reached up to opus 59, included piano music, songs, a string quartet (Op. 18 in A major), a suite for piano and strings, and a Prelude, Minuet, and Fugue for string orchestra. The latter two works were performed at Vienna Philharmonic Concerts in 1877 and 1878, earning praise from a Vienna critic of the Monthly Musical Record for their “delicate character and absence of undue pretension,” while his string quartet was performed by Hellmesberger (Grove’s Dictionary, 1922).