Casimir von Pászthory

Casimir von Pászthory (1 April 1886 – 18 February 1966) was an Austrian composer. His music, which is stylistically rooted in the Wagner-Strauss tradition, without renouncing elements of his own style, has largely fallen into oblivion today. It experienced at least a partial renaissance in 2004 with a revival of the opera Tilman Riemenschneider on the occasion of the 1300th anniversary of the city of Würzburg. Life Born in Budapest, Pászthory was the son of a senior government official of the Royal Curia, who came from an old Hungarian family. His mother was the pianist Gisela von Voigt, who came from a German noble family with origins in Hanover. As a former pupil of Franz Liszt, she was active until her old age and at the age of 84 she played one of the master’s piano concertos on his grand piano at a Liszt celebration in Budapest. After his mother’s second marriage to August Göllerich, Pászthory came to Nuremberg where he attended the Gymnasium. He then studied at the Law Faculty in Vienna, but concentrated mainly on his music studies, especially cello lessons with Paul Grümmer. After extensive travels, which took him all over Europe and as far as Asia Minor, he settled in Vienn