Richard Batka

Richard Batka (14 December 1868 – 24 April 1922) was an Austrian musicologist, music critic and librettist.

Born in Prague, Batka studied German language and literature with August Sauer and music history with Guido Adler at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1893. From 1896 to 1898 he published the Neue musikalische Rundschau together with Hermann Teibler in Prague, from 1897 he worked among other things as an editor for the magazines Neue Revue and Der Kunstwart [de] as well as for the Prager Tagblatt. In 1903 he founded the Austrian Section of the Dürerbundes Prague, which he also headed. 1906/07 he taught at the Prague Conservatory. He moved to Vienna, where he was music consultant of the Wiener Fremden-Blatt [de] from 1908 to 1919. Together with Richard Specht he was also editor of the journal Der Merker, which was founded in 1909. From 1909 to 1914 Batka taught music history at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He wrote music-historical and music-aesthetic writings and librettos and translated musical and literary texts from Czech, Polish, Italian and French into German.

Batka died in Vienna at the age of 59.

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