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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] |
Rosa Hochmann (1874–ca
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] |
Felix Stransky
Felix Stranky (26 May 1871 – 22 October 1950) was an Austrian banker and Holocaust survivor. Early life Stransky was born in Brno, Moravia (Brno, Czech Republic) on 26 May 1871; he died in Vienna on 22 October 1950. He was the son of the Brno factory owner Moritz, brother of Siegmund Stransky and Dr. Erwin Stransky (born in Vienna on 3 July 1877; died there on 26 January 1962), who made a name for himself as a psychiatrist from the school of Wagner-Jaureg. In 1900 Stranskly married the Russian-born violin virtuoso Rosa Hochmann. They separated in 1908. After training as a banker, Stransky worked initially in England, Romania and Germany. In 1898/99 he came to St. Petersburg as an authorized signatory of the Wawelberg banking house and in early 1901 accepted a position as director of the Swiss Bank Corporation in Zurich. Bankver. in Zurich.. 1905 Deputy Director of the Nö. Escompte-Ges. in Vienna, he advanced to become one of the three board directors in 1906 and remained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Musikvereinssaal, Vienna
The ( or ; ), commonly shortened to , is a concert hall in Vienna, Austria, which is located in the Innere Stadt district. The building opened in 1870 and is the home of the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra. The acoustics of the building's 'Great Hall' () have earned it recognition alongside other prominent concert halls, such as the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Symphony Hall in Boston. With the exception of Boston's Symphony Hall, none of these halls was built in the modern era with the application of architectural acoustics, and all share a long, tall and narrow shoebox shape. Building The 's main entrance is situated on Musikvereinsplatz, between Karlsplatz and . The building is located behind the Hotel Imperial that fronts on Kärntner Ring, which is part of the Vienna Ring Road (Ringstraße). It was erected as the new concert hall run by the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna, on a piece of land provided by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Morini
Erika Morini Siracusano (January 5, 1904 – October 31 or November 1, 1995) was a Jewish Austrian violinist. Early life and family Morini was born in Vienna, and received her first instruction from her father, Oscar Morini (originally spelled Oser or Ojser, family name Moritz), who was the director of his own music school in Vienna, and from Rosa Hochmann. She completed her studies at the Vienna Conservatory under Otakar Ševčík, who was also the teacher of Jan Kubelik. Erika's mother was Malka Morini, ''née Weissmann''. Her father was born at Czernowitz in Bukovina, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Morini had six siblings Alice, a pianist; Stella, violinist; Haydee, dancer; Frank art dealer; and Albert Morini, impresario concert manager. Her cousin, Louis Morris (originally Moritz), was a clarinetist for John Philip Sousa's band (1907–21) Career When she made her début in 1916, with the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norbert Brainin
Norbert Brainin, OBE (12 March 1923 in Vienna – 10 April 2005 in London) was the first violinist of the Amadeus Quartet, one of the world's most highly regarded string quartets. Because of Brainin's Jewish origin, he was driven out of Vienna after Hitler's Anschluss of 1938, as were violinist Siegmund Nissel and violist Peter Schidlof. Brainin and Schidlof met in a British internment camp. Like many Jewish refugees they had the misfortune to be confined by the British as "enemy aliens" after reaching the UK. Brainin was released after a few months, but Schidlof remained in the camp, where he met Nissel. Finally Schidlof and Nissel were released, and the three were able to study with violin pedagogue Max Rostal, who taught them free of charge. Brainin won the 1946 Carl Flesch International Violin Competition, which Rostal co-founded. It was through Rostal that they met cellist Martin Lovett, and in 1947 they formed the Brainin Quartet, which was renamed the Amadeus Quartet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Deaths
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first Nuclear marine propulsion, nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18–January 20, 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Taiwan, Formosa from the People's Republic of China. February * February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1875 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of the year (Third Class is renamed Second Class in 1956). * January 5 – The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris. * January 12 – Guangxu becomes the 11th Qing Dynasty Emperor of China at the age of 3, in succession to his cousin. * January 14 – The newly proclaimed King Alfonso XII of Spain (Queen Isabella II's son) arrives in Spain to restore the monarchy during the Third Carlist War. * February 3 – Third Carlist War – Battle of Lácar: Carlist commander Torcuato Mendíri secures a brilliant victory, when he surprises and routs a Government force under General Enrique Bargés at Lácar, east of Estella, nearly capturing newly crowned King Alfonso XII. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classical Violinists
Classical may refer to: European antiquity *Classical antiquity, a period of history from roughly the 7th or 8th century B.C.E. to the 5th century C.E. centered on the Mediterranean Sea *Classical architecture, architecture derived from Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity *Classical mythology, the body of myths from the ancient Greeks and Romans *Classical tradition, the reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by later cultures * Classics, study of the language and culture of classical antiquity, particularly its literature *Classicism, a high regard for classical antiquity in the arts Music and arts *Classical ballet, the most formal of the ballet styles * Classical music, a variety of Western musical styles from the 9th century to the present * Classical guitar, a common type of acoustic guitar *Classical Hollywood cinema, a visual and sound style in the American film industry between 1927 and 1963 * Classical Indian dance, various codified art forms whose t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jews Who Emigrated To Escape Nazism
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated, "Historically, the religious and ethnic dimensions of Jewish identity have been closely interwoven. In fact, so closely bound are they, that the traditional Jewish lexicon hardly distinguishes between the two concepts. Jewish religious practice, by definition, was observed exclusively by the Jewish people, and notions of Jewish peoplehood, nation, and community were suffused with faith in the Jewish God, the practice of Jewish (religious) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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