Sucher, Josef (1843–1908)

Austro-Hungarian conductor and composer. He learnt music as choirboy of the Austrian court chapel, at the Löwenburg seminary in Vienna, and in later study with Sechter. After various conducting appointments at Viennese theatres, including the Court Opera, he went to Leipzig as conductor of the municipal theatre in 1876. In 1878 he gave the first local Ring cycle. In 1877 he married the singer Rosa Hasselbeck. He was conductor of the court opera in Berlin from 1888 to 1899, where he gave a complete cycle of Wagner's operatic works, from Rienzi.

Works opera Ilse; masses and cantatas, overtures for orchestra; song cycle Ruheort.