The New International Encyclopædia/Reinthaler, Karl Martin

REINTHALER, rïn'ta-lèr, Karl Martin (1822-96). A German composer, born at Erfurt. He studied music under A. B. Marx, and, later, in both Paris and Rome. In 1853 he was appointed teacher at the Cologne Conservatory, and in 1858 became municipal music director and cathedral organist at Bremen, where he also conducted the cathedral choir, the Singakademie, and the concert society. He retired in 1893. His best known works are the oratorio Jephtha, the Bismarck-Hymne, the choral works In der Wüste, and Das Madchen von Kolah, and the operas Edda (1875) and Kätchen von Heilbronn, which gained a prize at Frankfort in 1881.