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{{short description|Austrian music critic (1860–1945)}}
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'''Julius Leopold Korngold''' (24 December 1860 – 25 September 1945) was an Austrian [[music critic]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Julius Korngold |work=Oxford Reference |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100042776 |access-date=30 November 2021 }}</ref> He was the leading critic in early twentieth century [[Vienna]], serving as [[List of chief music critics|chief music critic]] of the ''[[Neue Freie Presse]]'' from 1904 to 1934. His son was the composer [[Erich Wolfgang Korngold]], whom he named after [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], one of his favorite composers.<ref>{{cite web |last=Sillitoe |first=Stuart |title=Korngold Claves 50-1808 |publisher=MusicWeb International |url=https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2018/May/Korngold_VC_501808.htm |access-date=30 November 2021 }}</ref>

==Life and career==
He was the father of composer [[Erich Wolfgang Korngold]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Carroll |first=Brendan G. |year=2020 |orig-year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Korngold, Erich Wolfgang |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.3000000199 |isbn=9781561592630 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-3000000199 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref> He co-wrote the [[libretto]] of the [[opera]] ''[[Die tote Stadt]]'' with his son (under the collective [[pseudonym]] Paul Schott).<ref>Carroll, Brendan; G.Pauly, Reinhard G., ''The Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold'', Amadeus Press, Portland, 1997, p.121-3</ref> He died in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], California on 25 September 1945.<ref name="NYT1">{{cite news |date=27 September 1945 |title=JULIUS KORNGOLD, NOTED MUSIC CRITIC; Dean of European Experts Is Dead in Hollywood--Wrote for Vienna Newspaper |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1945/09/27/archives/julius-korngold-noted-music-critic-dean-of-european-experts-is-dead.html |access-date=30 November 2021 }}</ref>

In his time, he was known as the "dean of European music critics".<ref name="NYT1"/> He is most notable for championing the works of [[Gustav Mahler]] at a time when many did not think much of him.<ref>{{cite news |last=Loomis |first=George |date=4 January 2008 |title=Erich Wolfgang Korngold: A composer returns to the limelight |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/arts/14iht-loomis.1.9189513.html |access-date=30 November 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Haas |first=Michael |date=3 September 2021 |title=Julius Korngold's Article on "The Modern" in Music, 1901: Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler |website=forbiddenmusic.org |url=https://forbiddenmusic.org/2021/09/03/julius-korngolds-article-on-the-modern-in-music-1901-richard-strauss-gustav-mahler/ |access-date=30 November 2021 }}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{ÖBL|4|132||Korngold Julius Leopold|Antonicek}}
* {{cite journal |last=Poole |first=Marian |date=2009 |title=Making Korngold: Korngold, Schoenberg and the Neues Wiener Tagblatt Poll, Vienna, 1930 |journal=Context |volume=33 |pages=97–106 |url=https://cpb-ap-se2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.unimelb.edu.au/dist/6/184/files/2016/09/33_Poole-1lpe0dr.pdf }}
* {{cite journal |last=Giger |first=Andreas |date=Autumn 1998 |title=A Matter of Principle: The Consequences for Korngold's Career |journal=[[The Journal of Musicology]] |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=545–564 |jstor=763982 |doi=10.2307/763982 }}
* {{cite book |last=Haas |first=Michael |year=2013 |title=Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis |chapter=Mahler and His Chronicler Julius Korngold |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |location=New Haven |isbn=978-0-300-15431-3 |doi=10.12987/9780300154313 |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=RWx-aHPjTMQC}} |chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.12987/9780300154313-006/html }}
* {{cite news |last=Holzer |first=Georg |author-link=Georg Holzer |date=28 March 2019 |title=The Child Prodigy Korngold Conquers Munich |work=Takt1 |url=https://www.takt1.com/stories/child-prodigy-korngold-conquers-munich/ |url-access=subscription }}

==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Julius Korngold}}
* {{IMSLP|id=Korngold, Julius|cname=Julius Korngold}}

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