The son of a music-master, he studied at the Dresden Conservatory under Adolf Kluge, Eugen Krantz and Felix Draeseke.
In 1895 he became répétiteur at the Dresden Court Theatre, and he remained there, though with short absences (notably in 1898 at Cologne and at the New Royal Opera House in Berlin), until 1906.
In 1898 he became 3rd conductor at Dresden, with Ernst von Schuch and Bernhard Joachim Hagen.
From 1906 to 1909 he went to Mannheim as 1st conductor, and then returned to Dresden as successor to Hagen.
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