A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Reinhold, Hugo

by George Grove

REINHOLD, Hugo, a very promising young Austrian musician, born at Vienna March 3, 1854. He began, like Haydn and Schubert, by being a choir-boy in the Imperial Chapel, after which, in 1868, at the instance of Herbeck, he entered the Conservatorium, under the endowment of the Duke of Coburg-Gotha, where he was put under Bruckner, Dessoff, and Epstein, remained till 1874, and obtained a silver medal. His published works have reached op. 18. They consist of pianoforte music and songs; of a suite in five movements for pianoforte and strings, of a prelude, minuet and fugue also for stringed orchestra, and of a string-quartet in A (op. 18). The two larger works were played at the Vienna Philharmonic concerts of Dec. 9, 1877, and Nov. 17, 1878, respectively. The composer was loudly called for on both occasions, and they are praised by the intelligent and impartial Vienna critic of the 'Monthly Musical Record' for their delicate character and absence of undue pretension. The quartet was recently executed by Hellmesberger.

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