Walter Henry Rothwell (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Henry Rothwell (22 September 1872 - 13 March 1927) was an English conductor. He was born in London to an English father and an Austrian mother. After initial training from his mother, who had been a piano pupil of Friedrich Wieck, he entered the Royal Academy of Music in Vienna at the age of nine. On graduating from the Academy he undertook further studies in piano and composition in Vienna before becoming a coach at the Court Opera in that city. In this role he was discovered by an impressario named Pollini who brought him to Hamburg where he was assistant conductor to Gustav Mahler.