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'''Rafael Jeroným Kubelík''' ([[Býchory]], [[Bohemia]], [[Austria-Hungary]], today [[Czech Republic]], [[June 29]], [[1914]] – [[August 11]], [[1996]] in [[Kastanienbaum]], [[Canton of Lucerne]], [[Switzerland]]) was a [[Czechs|Czech]] [[conducting|conductor]] and [[composer]].

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==Early life==

The sixth child (and first son) of the great Bohemian violinist [[Jan Kubelík]], Rafael studied violin, composition, and conducting at the conservatory in [[Prague]]; he also studied violin with his father, of whom he said, "He was a kind of god to me." Rafael Kubelik graduated from the conservatory in 1933, at the age of 19; at his graduation concert he played a Paganini concerto and a composition of his own for violin and orchestra. Kubelik was also an accomplished pianist, and served as his father's piano accompanist on a tour of the United States in 1935.

'''Vilseck''' is a town in northeastern [[Bavaria]], [[Germany]] situated on the river [[Vils]], a tributary of the [[Naab]] river.

In 1939 Rafael Kubelík became music director of the [[Brno]] Opera until the Nazis shut it down on November 12, 1941. He continued to work with the [[Czech Philharmonic Orchestra]], which the Nazis allowed to continue operating, becoming its principal conductor. (He had first conducted the Czech Philharmonic in 1934 when he was 20 years old.) In 1944, after various incidents, including one in which he declined to greet the Nazi Reich-Protector with a Hitler salute - along with his refusal to conduct Wagner during the War - Kubelik "deemed it advisable to disappear from Prague and to spend a few months undercover in the countryside so as not to fall into the clutches of the SS or Gestapo" (Albert Scharf, in ''Rafael Kubelik: His Life and Achievement'', p. 114).

The town is geographically separate from a nearby large American military base known as the ''Rose Barracks'' but more commonly referred to as Vilseck. The base, built in 1937/1938, was captured during [[World War II]] from the Germans; it was previously was known as Südlager.

Kubelik conducted the orchestra's first post-war concert in May, 1945. In 1946, he helped found the "Prague Spring" Festival, and conducted its opening concert. But after the [[Communist]] coup of February [[1948]], Kubelik left [[Czechoslovakia]], vowing not to return until the country was liberated. "I had lived through one form of bestial tyranny, Nazism," he told an interviewer, "As a matter of principle I was not going to live through another."

The town of Vilseck's population was 6,484 citizens living within its area of 64,71km² in 35 hamlets and villages as of December 31, 2005. The town is 402 [[meter]]s above [[sea level]].

==Defected to the United Kingdom==

He defected during a trip to the United Kingdom to conduct Mozart's [[Don Giovanni]] at the [[Glyndebourne]] Festival (he had been engaged on the recommmendation of [[Bruno Walter]], whom Kubelik had assisted in this work at the 1937 [[Salzburg]] Festival). Kubelik told his wife of his decision to defect as their plane left Czechoslovakia. Upon arriving in London, Kubelik and his wife surrended their Czech passports.

Its name comes from a castle built in the year 920. At this time a "Burg" (castle) was called an "Eck"; thus the name Vilseck derived from: ''City next to the Vilsburg'' (Vilseck).

In 1953, the Communist government convicted the couple ''in absentia'' of "taking illicit leave" abroad. In 1956 the regime invited him back "with promises of freedom to do anything I wanted," said Kubelik, but he refused the invitation. In a 1957 letter to [["The Times"']]of London, Kubelik said he would seriously consider returning only when all the country's political prisoners were freed and all emigrees were given as much freedom as he had. He was invited back by the regime in 1966 but again refused; in 1968, after the Soviet "Prague Spring" invasion, he organized an international boycott, in which most of the major classical artists of the West participated.

===Nearby municipalities===

Kubelik eventually did return to Prague after the fall of Communism, leading the Czech Philharmonic in the Prague Spring Festival in 1990; see below.

Direct neighbour municipality are the municipalities [[Edelsfeld]], [[Königstein, Bavaria|Königstein]], [[Freihung]] and [[Hahnbach]].

== History of Vilseck ==

==Chicago==

In 1950, Kubelik became music director of the [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]], choosing the position over an offer from the BBC to succeed Sir [[Adrian Boult]] as chief conductor. But in 1953, he left. Some hold that he was "hounded out of the [Chicago] job" (to quote [[Time]] Magazine) by the "savage attacks" (to quote the [[New Grove Dictionary of Music]]) of the [[Chicago Tribune]] music critic [[Claudia Cassidy]]. But ''Chicago Sun-Times'' music critic Robert C. Marsh argued in 1972 that it was the Chicago Symphony trustees who were behind the departure. Their foremost complaint, and that of Cassidy as well, was that Kubelik introduced too many contemporary works (about 70 of them) to the orchestra. Recordings made by Kubelik in Chicago, many available on CD, are now greatly admired by critics.

920

Construction of the castle at around 925. Primary wooden watchtower with piling and moat, stone watchtower built in the 12th century. At this time a "Burg" (castle) was called an "Eck"; thus the name Vilseck derived from: City next to the Vilsburg. (Vilseck).

1104

==Later career==

Destruction of the castle by Emperor Heinrich IV during a devastation campaign against Berengar from Sulzbach.

After leaving Chicago, Kubelik became music director of the [[Royal Opera House]], [[Covent Garden]] from 1955 to 1958. Although Covent Garden sought to renew his contract, he chose to leave, partly because of a letter to the newspapers by the aged Sir [[Thomas Beecham]] decrying the engagement of "foreign" artists at the Royal Opera. Kubelik then accepted the position of music director of the [[Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra]] in 1961; he remained until 1979, when he retired. Kubelik's association with the Bavarian Radio Symphony is generally regarded as the high point of his career both artistically and professionally.

1185

In 1972, [[Göran Gentele]], the new general manager of the [[Metropolitan Opera]], [[New York City]], asked Kubelik to accept the newly created position of Music Director of the Met. Kubelik accepted partly because of his strong artistic relationship with Gentele. The death of Gentele in an automobile accident in 1972 undermined Kubelik's reasons for working at the opera house, and Kubelik also found the position so time-consuming (with its administrative demands) that it was drawing him away from his favored responsibilities in Bavaria. Thus Kubelik chose to leave the Met in 1974.

First documentation of the town "Vilseck"

1188-1268

In his post-Czechoslovakian career, Kubelik worked closely with such orchestras as [[Berlin Philharmonic]], [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]], [[Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra]], [[Vienna Philharmonic]], [[Israel Philharmonic]], [[Orchestre de Paris]], and the [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]]. His penultimate conducting appearance, in October of 1991, was with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; at the end, the orchestra gave him an honorary fanfare, a tribute it had offered conductors only rarely in its history. His final concert was with the Czech Philharmonic.

Affiliation of Vilseck and surrounding areas to the administrative district of the Episcopal-Bamberg bailiwick (Vogtei) under the protection of the Stauffer Emperor.

1190

==Recorded works==

Earliest documentation of the second castle. In the following years construction of a new castle with the growing of the new city of Vilseck. City and Castle accrete.

Kubelik recorded a large repertory, in many cases more than once per work. We have two complete recordings of his traversals of three major symphony cycles - those of [[Johannes Brahms]], [[Robert Schumann]], and [[Ludwig von Beethoven]]. When Kubelik recorded his first complete Beethoven symphony cycle, for [[Deutsche Grammophon]], he insisted on using nine different orchestras, one for each symphony. His complete cycle of [[Gustav Mahler]]'s symphonies (recorded from 1967 to 1971 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra) is widely regarded as one of the essential Mahler sets. Of his Mahler, Daniel Barenboim remarked, "I often thought I was missing something in Mahler until I listened to Kubelik. These is a lot more to be discovered in these pieces than just a generalized form of extrovert excitement. That is what Kubelik showed." (Barenboim,'' A Life in Music,'' p. 223) Kubelik also left much-admired recordings of opera by [[Verdi]] (his [[Rigoletto]] was recorded at [[La Scala]] with [[Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau]]), [[Mozart]], [[Janacek]] and others, including [[Wagner]], whose music he had shunned during the war, but which he led to great effect in later years.

1269-1802

==Retirement==

Town area belongs to the administrative office of the Bishop to Bamberg.

In 1985, ill-health (notably severe [[arthritis]] in his back) caused Kubelik to retire from full-time conducting, but the fall of Communism in his homeland led him to accept a 1990 invitation to return to conduct the Czech Philharmonic at the festival he had founded, the Prague Spring Festival. He recorded the Smetana ''[[Má Vlast]]'' live with the [[Czech Philharmonic]] for Supraphon, his fourth recording of the piece (a short excerpt of his 1991 Tokyo performance with the orchestra can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlLPLO90fSk ). He also recorded the Mozart "Prague" and Dvořák "New World" symphonies at the Festival. During the rehearsal of the "New World," he told the Czech Philharmonic, "It is my joy to hear this. I always wanted it to sound like this but never really found it with any other orchestra in the world. That eighth [note] is great!”

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Among his compositions are five [[opera]]s, a number of [[symphonies]], three settings of the Requiem text, other choral works, and many works of [[chamber music]].

First documentation of "City" (ciuitatis) of Vilseck.

1332-1380

Construction of the city fortification: 940 m curtain wall, (9 m high, 1,60 m thick), 17 towers and three gates surrounded by a moat.

1380

==Family==

Awarding of the city crest by Lampert von Brunn, Bishop of Bamberg.

Kubelik married the well-known Czech violinist Ludmilla Bertlova in 1943; their son, Martin Kubelik (b. 1946) is an architectural historian. Bertlova died in Switzerland (where the couple then lived) in 1961, as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Kubelik remarried in 1963, to the Australian soprano Elsie Morrison (b. 1924), who survives him.

Construction of the town hall (Rathaus).

Ende des 14./ Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts

Construction of choir aisle and nave on Romanic foundation, remaining from 11th century, at the church in Schlicht.

1407-1412

==Death==

Construction of parish church on from 11th century remaining Romanic foundation.

Kubelik died in 1996; his ashes were interred in the [[Vyšehrad cemetery]] in Prague next to the grave of his father.

1430/39

==Quotes about Kubelik==

Siting of the huge city pond, about 13 ha wide, as protection from enemies, (at that time the Hussiten). Existed until 1926.

In his book, ''A Life in Music'' (p. 49), [[Daniel Barenboim]] recounts playing Beethoven concertos as a teenager with Kubelik conducting. At one point, says Barenboim, "I made an unforgivable crescendo in the middle of a passage that was marked ''piano'', and Kubelik told me, 'Of course, what you are doing is wonderfully effective, even beautiful, but you must sometimes sacrifice the beauty of the moment for the beauty of a long line and structure.'" Says Barenboim, "The concept was not new to me because I had grown up with it, but Kubelik's articulation was so clear, and linked to such a very precise case in point, that I have always remembered it." Barenboim adds, "He was one of the few examples of a really independent musicians - he had adopted a line without any artistic compromise."

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Barenboim also said (in the documentary film, ''Rafael Kubelik: Music is My Country'') that "Kubelik was one of those rare musicians whose human qualities were evident both in music making and outside. You could feel in the way he treated the musicians and in the way he behaved generally, what a generous and free human being he was."

Construction of the Vogelturm "bird-tower" (far-known landmark and symbol of Vilseck).

1512

The ''New Grove'' mentions that Kubelik was "greatly respected and liked" by orchestra musicians generally. Henry Fogel describes his "gentleness," and in the above-mentioned film, Kubelik himself says that the orchestra/ conductor relationship should be an example of a true democratic republic - the conductor cannot, he said, be a dictator.

Castle is attacked, plundered and burned down by the knights Hans Pflug and Hand Selbitz, comrades-in-arms of Götz von Berlichingens . Afterwards - reconstruction.

1522

Majority of city, inclusively city hall, burns down.

Plundering of city through Margrave (Marktgraf) Albrecht IV from Brandenburg.

1620

==References==

Pillaged during 30-year-war.

Barenboim, Daniel ''A Life in Music'' (London, 2002).

1631-

Freeman, John W. "Music First," ''Opera News,'' May 2007, pp. 42-45.

1634

The black death carries off most of population.

1638/39

Moritz, Reiner'' Rafael Kubelik: Music Is My Country'' (DVD, RM Creative, Munich, 2003)

Pillaged during 30-year-war.

1648

Ulm, Renate, editor ''The Golden Era of Rafael Kubelik'' (Munich: Bavarian Broadcasting, 2006)

1751-1754

Construction of the nave at Catholic church in baroque style.

1802

==Awards==

Since 1802 affiliation to Bavaria.

* [[Sonning Award]] (1983; [[Denmark]])

1803

==Recordings==

Integration into the Oberpfalz. (Upper Palatinate District).

Kubelík's complete discography is enormous, with music ranging from [[Malcolm Arnold]] through [[Jan Dismas Zelenka]], with recordings both in the studio and in concert. Aside from complete cycles of Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, and Mahler, Kubelík made recordings of great orchestral and operatic works by composers such as Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Verdi and many others, including many modern composers.

1808

A selection of Kubelík's recordings is provided below. An extensive discography is found in the [[#External links|external links section]].

Local villages, like Gressenwöhr, Irlbach, Langenbruck, Schlicht and Sigl, become political structured communities.

1838

After authorization through King Ludwig I. the Landgericht (County Court) is set in the Vilseck cityhall.

1852-1919

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In this timeframe a "Vilseck District" exists as major regional authority with the communities of Adlholz, Ehenfeld, Gebenbach, Gressenwöhr, Großschönbrunn, Hahnbach, Iber, Irlbach, Kürmreuth, Langenbruck, Massenricht, Schlicht, Seugast, Sigl, Sigras, Süß, Vilseck and Weißenberg .

<tr><th>Composer</th><th>Composition</th><th>Date</th><th>Orchestra</th><th>Recording</th></tr>

<tr><td>[[Bartók]]</td><td>[[Concerto for Orchestra (Bartók)|Concerto for Orchestra]]</td><td>1974</td><td>[[Boston Symphony Orchestra]]</td><td rowspan="8">[[Deutsche Grammophon]]</td></tr>

<tr><td rowspan="6">[[Beethoven]]</td><td>[[Symphony No. 4 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 4]]</td><td>1975</td><td>[[Israel Philharmonic Orchestra]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 5]]</td><td rowspan="2">1973</td><td>Boston Symphony Orchestra</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 6]]</td><td>[[Orchestre de Paris]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 7]]</td><td>1974</td><td>[[Wiener Philharmoniker]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 8]]</td><td rowspan="2">1975</td><td>[[The Cleveland Orchestra]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 9]]</td><td rowspan="3">[[Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra|Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Alban Berg|Berg]]</td><td>[[Violin Concerto (Berg)|Violin Concerto]]</td><td>1971</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]]</td><td>[[Ein deutsches Requiem]]</td><td>1978</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>

<tr><td rowspan="2">[[Bruckner]]</td><td rowspan="2">[[Symphony No. 3 (Bruckner)|Symphony No. 3]]</td><td>1954</td><td>[[Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra]]</td><td>[[Radio Netherlands]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>1985</td><td>[[Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra|Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks]]</td><td>[[Sony Classical]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[:nl:Sem Dresden (componist)|Dresden]]</td><td>Dansflitsen</td><td>1954</td><td>Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra</td><td>Radio Netherlands</td></tr>

<tr><td rowspan="21">[[Antonín Dvořák|Dvořák]]</td><td>Symphonic Variations on The fiddler</td><td>1974</td><td rowspan="7">Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks</td><td rowspan="13">Deutsche Grammophon</td></tr>

<tr><td>Ouverture to a play by F. F. Samberk</td><td>1973-4</td></tr>

<tr><td>Hussite Dramatic overture</td><td></td></tr>

<tr><td>In Nature's realm Concert Overture</td><td></td></tr>

<tr><td>Carnival Concert Overture</td><td>1977</td></tr>

<tr><td>Othello Concert Overture</td><td></td></tr>

<tr><td>Scherzo capriccioso</td><td>1975</td></tr>

<tr><td>Symphony No. 1</td><td rowspan="6">1973</td><td rowspan="6">Berliner Philharmoniker</td></tr>

<tr><td>Symphony No. 2</td></tr>

<tr><td>Symphony No. 3</td></tr>

<tr><td>Symphony No. 4</td></tr>

<tr><td>Symphony No. 5</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Symphony No. 6 (Dvořák)|Symphony No. 6]]</td></tr>

<tr><td rowspan="2">[[Symphony No. 7 (Dvořák)|Symphony No. 7]]</td><td>1950</td><td>Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra</td><td>Radio Netherlands</td></tr>

<tr><td>1971</td><td rowspan="3">Berliner Philharmoniker</td><td rowspan="8">Deutsche Grammophon</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Symphony No. 8 (Dvořák)|Symphony No. 8]]</td><td>1966</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák)|Symphony No. 9]]</td><td>1973</td></tr>

<tr><td>The Noon Witch</td><td rowspan="3">1974</td><td rowspan="4">Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[The Water Goblin]]</td></tr>

<tr><td rowspan="2">The Wild Dove</td></tr>

<tr><td>1976</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Edvard Grieg|Grieg]]</td><td>[[Piano Concerto (Grieg)|Piano Concerto]]</td><td>1964</td><td>Berliner Philharmoniker</td></tr>

<tr><td rowspan="3">[[Paul Hindemith|Hindemith]]</td><td>Chamber Music No. 5</td><td>1966</td><td rowspan="7">Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks</td><td rowspan="3">[[Bayerischer Rundfunk]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>Concerto Music ( Op. 48)</td><td>1963</td></tr>

<tr><td>Der Schwanendreher</td><td>1968</td></tr>

<tr><td rowspan="6">[[Leoš Janáček|Janáček]]</td><td>Concertino</td><td>1970</td><td rowspan="4">Deutsche Grammophon</td></tr>

<tr><td>The Diary of One Who Disappeared</td><td></td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Glagolitic Mass]]</td><td></td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Sinfonietta (Janáček)|Sinfonietta]]</td><td>1970</td></tr>

<tr><td rowspan="2">[[Taras Bulba]]</td><td>1951</td><td>Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra</td><td>Radio Netherlands</td></tr>

<tr><td>1970</td><td rowspan="14">Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks</td><td rowspan="2">Deutsche Grammophon</td></tr>

<tr><td rowspan="13">[[Mahler]]</td><td rowspan="2">[[Symphony No. 1 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 1]]</td><td>1967</td></tr>

<tr><td>1979</td><td>Bayerischer Rundfunk</td></tr>

<tr><td rowspan="2">[[Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 2]]</td><td>1969</td><td>Deutsche Grammophon</td></tr>

<tr><td>1982</td><td>Bayerischer Rundfunk</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Symphony No. 3 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 3]]</td><td>1967</td><td rowspan="3">Deutsche Grammophon</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Symphony No. 4 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 4]]</td><td>1968</td></tr>

<tr><td rowspan="2">[[Symphony No. 5 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 5]]</td><td>1971</td></tr>

<tr><td>1981</td><td>Bayerischer Rundfunk</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Symphony No. 6 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 6]]</td><td>1968</td><td rowspan="5">Deutsche Grammophon</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Symphony No. 7 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 7]]</td><td rowspan="2">1970</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 8]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Symphony No. 9 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 9]]</td><td>1967</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Symphony No. 10 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 10]]</td><td>1968</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Felix Mendelssohn|Mendelssohn]]</td><td>[[Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)|Violin Concerto]]</td><td>1951</td><td>Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra</td><td>Radio Netherlands</td></tr>

<tr><td rowspan="3">[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]</td><td>[[Eine kleine Nachtmusik]]</td><td>1962</td><td>Wiener Philharmoniker</td><td>[[EMI]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>Mass No. 9 (Missa brevis)</td><td>1973</td><td>Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks</td><td>Deutsche Grammophon</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Symphony No. 36 (Mozart)|Symphony No. 36]]</td><td>1962</td><td>Wiener Philharmoniker</td><td>[[EMI]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Sergei Rachmaninov|Rachmaninov]]</td><td>[[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)|Piano Concerto No. 2]]</td><td>1951</td><td>Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra</td><td>Radio Netherlands</td></tr>

<tr><td rowspan="2">[[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg]]</td><td>[[Piano Concerto (Schoenberg)|Piano Concerto]]</td><td rowspan="2">1972</td><td rowspan="2">Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks</td><td rowspan="2">Deutsche Grammophon</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Violin Concerto (Schoenberg)|Violin Concerto]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Franz Schubert|Schubert]]</td><td>[[Symphony No. 9 (Schubert)|Symphony No. 9]]</td><td>1960</td><td>[[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]]</td><td>EMI</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Robert Schumann|Schumann]]</td><td>[[Piano Concerto (Schumann)|Piano Concerto]]</td><td>1964</td><td>Berliner Philharmoniker</td><td rowspan="2">Deutsche Grammophon</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Bedřich Smetana|Smetana]]</td><td>[[Má vlast]]</td><td>1971</td><td>Boston Symphony Orchestra</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Alexandre Tansman|Tansman]]</td><td>Music for Orchestra</td><td>1950</td><td>Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra</td><td>Radio Netherlands</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]]</td><td>[[Symphony No. 4 (Tchaikovsky)|Symphony No. 4]]</td><td>1961</td><td>Wiener Philharmoniker</td><td>EMI</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Verdi]]</td><td>[[Rigoletto]]</td><td>1964</td><td>[[La Scala|Orchester del Teatro alla Scala]]</td><td rowspan="2">Deutsche Grammophon</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Richard Wagner|Wagner]]</td><td>[[Lohengrin (opera)|Lohengrin]]</td><td>1971</td><td rowspan="3">Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks</td>

<tr><td rowspan="2">[[Carl Maria von Weber|Weber]]</td><td>[[Der Freischütz]]</td><td>1980</td><td>[[Decca]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Oberon (opera)|Oberon]]</td><td>1970</td><td>Deutsche Grammophon</td></tr>

</table>

1864

==External links==

City hall on fire. Ruin will be transferred to state government to construct new district courthouse.

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* [http://vagne.free.fr/kubelik/discographie.htm#discograhy An extensive discography]

1901

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Opening of a public telephone office.

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1908

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Construction of the Grafenwöhr Training Area North, with displacement of larger parts of the Vilseck Bürgerwald. (forest).

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1929-1930

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Construction of water supply system

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1937

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Enlargement of water supply system to supply German Army Base.

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1937/38

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Construction of German Army Base (Südlager) in the Grafenwöhr Training Area. For the extension of the Grafenwöhr Training Area several villages, like: Langenbruck, Altenweiher, Altneuhaus, Bernhof, Betzlhof, Erzhäusl, Fenkenhof, Grünwald, Hellziechen, Kittenberg, Schindlhof, Schmierhütte and Wirlhof had to be evacuated.

[[pl:Rafael Kubelik]]

[[sk:Rafael Kubelík]]

1945

[[fi:Rafael Kubelík]]

Capitulation of German Army Base (Südlager) to US Army

[[zh:拉法埃尔·库贝里克]]

1946

Grand opening of a movie theatre.

Integration of the villages Schönlind, Ödgodlricht, Heroldsmühle und Gumpenhof from the broken down community of Irlbach, into the community of Schlicht.

1951

Construction of the new railway station.

1954/55

Construction of the local hospital.

1955

Connection of Schlicht to the city water supply system.

1956-1959

Construction of the Protestant church in Vilseck.

1957

Start of construction of the city sewage system.

1962-1964

Construction of the new school with gymnasium in Vilseck.

1981-1993

Extension and enlargement of Rose Barracks for about 1 billion marks.

2000

Grand Opening of "Erstes Deutsches Türmermuseum". (1st. German museum of tower watchman or tower keeper).

== Vilseck and the U.S. Army ==

Vilseck is home to [[Rose Barracks]], a U.S. Army base located just outside the town.

Currently the following units are based in Rose Barracks:

* [[2nd Cavalry Regiment (United States)|2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment]]

* 72nd Med Det VS

* A Co, 39th Finance

* HSC/B/94 EN Bn

* 2nd ASOS

In 1990, as part of 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division; [[U.S. 37th Armor Regiment#1st Battalion|1st Battalion 37th Armor]] was attached to the [[3rd "Bulldog" Brigade]] from Bamberg and deployed to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield/Storm. [[U.S. 37th Armor Regiment#2nd Battalion|2nd Battalion 37th Armor]] along with the Brigade HQ proper remained deployed to Rose Barracks for the duration of the conflict.

In 1991, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division elements still in Rose Barracks were redesignated 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division.

In 2005, the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division departed Vilseck Germany after redeployment from Iraq.

In 2006, the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (Stryker) moved to Vilseck. Vilseck and the Grafenwoehr Training Area will become one of the last remaining major hubs of the American Military in Europe.

==Trivia==

The town is home to Germany's first tower museum.

== External links ==

*[http://www.vilseck.de Information about Vilseck]

*[http://www.grafenwoehr.com Information about Grafenwoehr and the area]

*[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/vilseck.htm Information about Rose Barracks, Vilseck]

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