superbly executed reading of Act 3 ... in the history of recording" and Robin Holloway commented that "It realizes better than any other Wagner performance the idea of endless melody". In all about 40% of the opera's score was recorded over the 2-and-a-half-year period. HMV also recorded eight further Wagner orchestral pieces, including the Siegfried Idyll, with the Berlin State Opera Orchestra in December 1927, May 1928, and November 1929. These have been reissued on various CDs. A discography of Muck's original commercial recordings, not including reissues, appeared in 1977. Several radio recordings allegedly conducted by Muck also exist, including a Faust Overture and Trauermarsch (Götterdämmerung) with the Berlin Radio Orchestra and an excerpt from the Adagio of Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 with the Hamburg Philharmonic. Cultural depictions In Maria Peters' 2018 film De Dirigent (The Conductor - 2018), a biopic about Antonia Brico, Muck's student from 1927 to 1932 and the first internationally recognized female conductor of Classical music, Karl Muck was played by German actor Richard Sammel. References Further reading Melissa D. Burrage, "Caught on the American Cultural Battleground: Dr. Karl Muck in World War I Boston." Ph.D. Dissertation. (University of East Anglia, 2015.) Melissa D. Burrage, The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America (New York: University of Rochester Press, 2019). online review Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, Sound Diplomacy: Music and Emotion in Transatlantic History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, 2012). Peter Muck, ed., Karl Muck: ein Dirigentenleben in Briefen und Dokumenten. (Tutzing, 2003: Schneider), documentary biography compiled from letters and other documents Neil Swidey, "The Muck Affair", The Boston Globe, 5 November 2017 Egon Voss, Die Dirigenten der Bayreuther Festspiele, (Regensburg, 1976: Gustav Bosse Verlag) External links 1859 births 1940 deaths Anti-German sentiment in the United States Fake news in the United States German conductors (music) German emigrants to Switzerland German expatriates in the United States German male conductors (music) Internment of German Americans Journalistic scandals Male conductors (music) Media bias controversies Musicians from Darmstadt People from the Grand Duchy of Hesse Swiss conductors (music) Swiss expatriates in the United States