Krips, Josef (1902–1974)

Austrian conductor. He studied in Vienna with Eusebius Mandyczewski and Felix Weingartner, and became a violinist in the Volksoper there. In 1924 he began his career as a conductor and from 1926 to 1933 was general music director at Karlsruhe. In 1933 he became a conductor at the Vienna Staatsoper and in 1935 professor at the Vienna Academy of Music.

He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 1935 with Der Rosenkavalier; he returned in 1946, with Don Giovanni. During World War II he lost these positions, but rejoined the Vienna Staatsoper in 1945; he took the company to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, England, in 1947, conducting Mozart's three Da Ponte operas; he returned with the Covent Garden company in 1963, with Don Giovanni. From 1950 to 1954 he was conductor at the London Symphony Orchestra, then with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra 1963–70 and the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1967 (Zauberflöte).