Alois Taux

Taux was born in Baumgarten, in Silesia (now Braszowice in Poland); he showed musical talent at an early age, and during school years he learned to play violin and organ, and composed church pieces.

Invited to conduct at various venues, he travelled to Germany, Belgium, England and France; an autograph collection, preserved by the Salzburger Liedertafel, shows that he met cultural figures including Hector Berlioz, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner.

She had attended Prague Conservatory, and was an opera singer, at venues including from 1844 to 1846 in minor roles at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna, moving to Salzburg in 1848.

[1][2][3] His biographer in Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (1881) wrote: "Taux was considered a shrewd and proven conductor of the orchestra, and of vocal music both in the concert hall and in the church choir....

Universally respected as a person, he was in the service of unwavering devotion to duty, even if, in order to maintain his household, he took upon himself a variety of professional burdens, the care of which clouded his mild countenance with melancholy.