Rudolf Mengelberg

Curt Rudolf Mengelberg (1 February 1892 – 13 October 1959) was a German-born Dutch composer and musicologist. From 1925 he was the artistic leader of Het Concertgebouw N.V., the company that ran Amsterdam's main concert hall, and from 1935 to 1955 its general director. He was a cousin of the conductor Willem Mengelberg.

Mengelberg studied law and then musicology. He took a doctorate at Leipzig in 1915 with a dissertation on the Italian composer Giovanni Alberto Ristori. He joined the Concertgebouw in 1917 and organised the Mahler Festival held in Amsterdam in 1920. He stayed in his post during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In 1945 he was removed from office, and in 1947 the Central Honour Council reinstated him. He left the Concertgebouw in 1955, after the concert-hall company and the orchestra were split into two organisations, and settled near Monte Carlo, where he died in 1959. He wrote mainly vocal and sacred music.

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