Paur
EMIL, an Austrian conductor and pianist. Born in Austria-Hungary 1855 he became a student in the Vienna Conservatory and in 1876 became kapellmeister at Cassel. In 1891 the Leipzig Stadt Theater elected him director and in 1893 he made his first trip to America to succeed Arthur Nikisch as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. From 1899-1900 he conducted at the Metropolitan Opera House. In 1903 he returned to Europe, this time to Madrid Europe, to the Royal Opera. The next year the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra made him their conductor, where he remained until his return to Berlin in 1912 to become the conductor of the Royal Opera,