Aloys Obrist


Aloys Obrist, also Alois Obrist was a German musicologist, Kapellmeister and conductor.

Life

Born in Sanremo, Obrist studied music in Weimar and in Berlin where he received his doctorate in musicology in 1892. Afterwards he received a proposition to become Kapellmeister at the Augsburg City Theatre. From September 1895 to 1900 he was Hofkapellmeister at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, where he made great contributions to the modernization of the repertoire of subscription concerts of the Hofkapelle. From 1901 to 1907 he was curator of the.
He was married to theatre actress. His brother Hermann Obrist was a famous sculptor.

Death

Obrist's affair with the opera singer Anna Sutter was to prove fatal. After Sutter had ended the relationship in 1909 after two years, Obrist broke into her apartment on 29 June 1910, and - after his love was rejected once again - shot her with two pistol shots, before he took his own life with five shots.
Obrist died in Stuttgart at the age of 43.

Work