Stransky, Josef (1872–1936)

Czech conductor and composer. He studied medicine at first, but turned to music, studying under Fibich and Dvořák in Prague, and Fuchs and Bruckner in Vienna. He became conductor of the German Opera in Prague, and then of the Hamburg Opera (1909). From 1911 to 1922 he conducted the New York Philharmonic Society, following Mahler. In 1922 he gave the first performance of Schoenberg's transcriptions of Bach chorale preludes. He figures in Strauss's Intermezzo, as Stroh.

Works opera Beatrice and Benedick (after Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing), operetta The General (produced Hamburg); symphony; chamber music; songs.