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Jakob Grün
Jakob Moritz Grün ( hu, Grün Jakab; 13 March 1837 – 1 October 1916) was an Austrian violinist of Hungarian origin. After positions as principal violinist in the court orchestras of Weimar and Hannover, he was, from 1868 to 1897, concertmaster of the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra. He taught notable players at the Vienna Conservatory from 1877 to 1908, including 20 future orchestra members, as well as Carl Flesch and Franz Kneisel. Life Born in Pest, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire, Grün received his first music lessons there and then studied violin privately with Joseph Böhm in Vienna. He studied music with Moritz Hauptmann at the Leipziger Conservatorium der Musik. From 1858 to 1861, Grün was principal violinist of the Hofkapelle in Weimar. In 1861, Joseph Joachim called him to the Hofkapelle zu Hannover, planning for a permanent engagement. When Grün, in 1864, was not granted a permanent position with a pension because he was Jewish, Joachim quit the orchestra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population of 1,752,286 over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a city and county, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,303,786; it is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celtic settlement transformed into the Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Lower Pannonia. The Hungarians arrived in the territory in the late 9th century, but the area was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–42. Re-established Buda became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century. The Battle of Mohács, in 1526, was followed by nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule. After the reconquest of Buda in 1686, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Music And Theatre Leipzig
The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig (german: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig) is a public university in Leipzig (Saxony, Germany). Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatorium der Musik (Conservatory of Music), it is the oldest university school of music in Germany. The institution includes the traditional Church Music Institute founded in 1919 by Karl Straube (1873–1950). The music school was renamed ″Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy″ after its founder in 1972. In 1992, it incorporated the Theaterhochschule "Hans Otto" Leipzig. Since the beginning there was a tight relationship between apprenticeship and practical experience with the Gewandhaus and the Oper Leipzig, as well as theaters in Chemnitz (''Theater Chemnitz''), Dresden ('' Staatsschauspiel Dresden''), Halle (''Neues Theater Halle''), Leipzig (''Schauspiel Leipzig'') and Weimar (''Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar''). Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon
The ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon''''Oesterreichisch'' with ''Oe'' is the spelling of the print and online output. is a five-volume music encyclopedia founded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Commission for Music Research. It was officially launched on 19 May 2002 with a concert in the main broadcasting hall of Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) in Vienna.Feichtinger, Johannes and Uhl, Heidemarie (2016)''Habsburg neu denken: Vielfalt und Ambivalenz in Zentraleuropa'' p. 11. Böhlau Verlag. s.n. (19 May 2002)"Österreichisches Musiklexikon als Buch und im Web" ''Wiener Zeitung''. Retrieved 22 March 2019 . Contents The ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon'' consists of five volumes with almost 2800 pages and 7474 keywords on all current and historical topics of Austrian music and musical life. In addition to biographies of composers, librettists, conductors, instrumentalists, singers, dancers, choreographers, theatre directors, instrument makers, music publishers, musicologists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiener Tonkünstler-Orchester
The Wiener Tonkünstler-Orchester was an orchestra association in Vienna, which existed until 1933. History The predecessor institution was the Tonkünstler-Sozietät, which was founded in 1771 on the initiative of the composer Florian Leopold Gassmann. The partnership was to organise musical events for the public in Vienna. The oratorio '' Betulia liberata'', composed by Gassmann and premiered on 19 March 1772, was the first performance of the partnership, whose main task was to care for the widows and orphans of deceased members. The name of the orchestra goes back to this historical musical institution and lived on in the Wiener Tonkünstler-Orchester, founded at the beginning of the 20th century, which gave its first concert on 10 October 1907 in the Wiener Musikverein under the conductors Oskar Nedbal, Hans Pfitzner and Bernhard Stavenhagen with works by Goldmark, Grieg, Liszt and Beethoven. The Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra made music history in 1913 with the world premi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna Central Cemetery
The Vienna Central Cemetery (german: Wiener Zentralfriedhof) is one of the largest cemeteries in the world by number of interred, and is the most well-known cemetery among Vienna's nearly 50 cemeteries. The cemetery's name is descriptive of its significance as Vienna's biggest cemetery, not of its geographic location, as it is not in the city center of the Austrian capital, but on the outskirts, in the outer city district of Simmering. History and description Unlike many others, the Vienna Central Cemetery is not one that has evolved slowly. The decision to establish a new, big cemetery for Vienna came in 1863 when it became clear that – due to industrialization – the city's population would eventually increase to such an extent that the existing communal cemeteries would prove to be insufficient. City leaders expected that Vienna, then capital of the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, would grow to four million inhabitants by the end of the 20th century, as no-one foresaw the Em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolph Lehmann
Adolf Lehmann or Adolph Ludwig Ferdinand Lehmann (22 December 1863 - 27 September 1937) was a Canadian chemist and agricultural scientist of German origin. He served as the first agricultural chemist of Mysore state in India. He established a laboratory for chemical analysis and began field experiments to study plant nutrition and also worked on chemical problems involved in the processing of sugar from sugarcane. Life and work Lehmann was born in Morris Township, Ontario, the first son of Adalbert Ludwig Lehmann and Kathinka Helene Friedereike (born Bruch, she came from Oldenburg and had been in Belgium with an uncle who was physician to King Leopold while studying French and English) a family of German settlers who farmed around Sparrow Lake. Adolph studied at the Sparrow Lake Public School before going to the Oldenburg Gymnasium. He graduated with a BSA in 1889 from the Ontario Agricultural College (then called the Guelph Agricultural College) and then went to the University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wieden
Wieden (; Central Bavarian: ''Wiedn'') is the 4th municipal district of Vienna, Austria (german: 4. Bezirk). It is near the centre of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850, but its borders were changed later. Wieden is a small region near the city centre. Wien.gv.at webpage (see below: References). After World War II, Wieden was part of the Soviet sector of Vienna for 10 years. __TOC__ History The name Wieden was first recorded in 1137, and is thus the oldest '' Vorstadt'' (former municipality within the ''Linienwall'') of Vienna. The main street ( Wiedner Hauptstraße) is certainly even older. The district was the site of the former royal Summer residence, which was completed under Ferdinand II, and was expanded many times until Maria Theresa sold it to the Jesuits. Today it is the Theresianum, a prestigious private boarding school, while the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna resides in a wing of the building. In the beginning of the 18th century, the development o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Wessely
Hans Wessely (23 December 1862 – 29 September 1926) was an Austrian violinist. Biography He was born in Vienna in 1862 and died in Innsbruck in 1926. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Karl Heissler and Josef Hellmesberger, Sr. from 1873 to 1878. Afterwards he also studied privately with Jakob Grün. He debuted with the Vienna Philharmonic Society in 1883. He subsequently toured Europe and visited England in 1888. From 1889 he was professor at the Royal Academy of Music. He performed at the London Proms. He established the ''Wessely Quartet''. He worked with Hans Richter, August Manns, Henry Wood, Alexander Mackenzie, York Bowen and Arthur Sullivan. He taught Spencer Dyke, Albert Sandler, Percy Hilder Miles, E. Florence Whitlock, Lionel Tertis and Rebecca Clarke, (before the latter two changed to viola). Wessely played on the ''Deurbroucq'' Stradivarius violin, 1727, gifted to him in 1903 by pupils and friends at the Royal Academy of Music. Works He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa Hochmann
Rosa Hochmann (born March 13, 1875, in Proskurov, Russian Empire; died December 1955 in Vienna), née Stransky, née Rosenfeld, was a violinist and violin teacher.Freia Hoffmann''Hochmann, Rosa''In: Europäische Instrumentalistinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. 2013. Online-Lexikon des Sophie Drinker Instituts, hrsg. von Freia Hoffmann. Life Rosa Hochmann was trained in Kiev by Oskar Stock. She moved to Vienna with her mother in 1885 and studied there from 1889 to 1891 at the Conservatory with Jakob Grün (1837-1916), who was concertmaster of the Vienna Court Opera. There is evidence of several concerts by Hochmann in Vienna in the 1890s, during which she performed, among others, the Violin Concerto No. 8 in A minor, op. 47 by Louis Spohr, the Violin Concerto in G minor by Max Bruch, and solo works by Pablo de Sarasate, Carl Halir, and Henryk Wieniawski. In 1894–95 she made concert tours to Budapest and Dresden as well as to Berlin, Warsaw, Magdeburg and Potsdam. She also gav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Mairecker
Franz Mairecker (11 April 1879 – 11 May 1950) was an Austrian violinist, music teacher and lecturer. Life Born in Gumpoldskirchen, Mairecker studied with Josef Maxinczak, Jakob Grün, Ernst Ludwig and Robert Fuchs at the Vienna Conservatory from 1889 to 1895. He then worked as a substitute in the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra. References Further reading * * Felix Czeike (ed.)Mairecker, Franz In '. Vol. 4, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna1995, * Christian Fastl: Mairecker, Franz. In ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon The ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon'Oesterreichisch'' with ''Oe'' is the spelling of the print and online output. is a five-volume music encyclopedia founded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Commission for Music Research. It was officiall ...''. Online-Edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ; Print-Edition: Vol. 3, Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, . {{DEFAULTSORT:Mairecker, Franz Concertmasters Players of the Vienna Philharmonic Academ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Hellmesberger
Josef Hellmesberger Sr. (3 November 182824 October 1893) was an Austrian violinist, conductor, and composer. Born in Vienna, he was the son of musician and pedagogue, Georg Hellmesberger Sr. (1800–1873), and was taught violin by his father at the Vienna Conservatory. Hellmesberger hails from a family of notable musicians including: brother, Georg Jr. (1830–1852); son, Josef Jr. (1855–1907); and son Ferdinand (1863–1940). In 1851, Hellmesberger became violin professor at the Vienna Conservatory, artistic director and conductor of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde concerts as well as director of the Vienna Conservatory. After the division of the two roles in 1859, he remained director of the Conservatory, while Johann Herbeck became conductor of the concerts. He was professor until 1877, but continued on as director until his death in Vienna. In 1860 he became concertmaster of the Court Opera orchestra and took on various other positions in Vienna's music life. Hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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