John Tiplady Carrodus (1836–1895) was an English
violin
The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...
ist.
Life
Carrodus was born on 20 January 1836, at
Keighley
Keighley ( ) is a market town and a civil parish
in the City of Bradford Borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is the second largest settlement in the borough, after Bradford.
Keighley is north-west of Bradford city centre, north-west of Bi ...
, in the
West Riding of Yorkshire
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. He took violin lessons from his father Thomas Carrodus, who was a barber and music-seller.
He made his first appearance as a violinist at the age of nine, and before the London public four years later.
He had the advantage of studying between the ages of twelve and eighteen at
Stuttgart
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, with
Bernhard Molique
Bernhard Molique (''Wilhelm Bernhard Molique;'' 7 October 180210 May 1869) was a German violinist and composer.
Biography
He was born in Nuremberg. His father was a musician and the boy studied various instruments, but finally devoted himself to ...
.
He also “ became a 'follower of
Spohr
Louis Spohr (, 5 April 178422 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig, was a German composer, violinist and conducting, conductor. Highly regarded during his lifetime, Spohr composed ten Sy ...
', who expressed his admiration for the Englishman's playing.”
On his return to Britain in 1853
Sir Michael Costa
Sir Michael Andrew Angus Costa (14 February 180829 April 1884) was an Italian-born conductor and composer who achieved success in England.
Biography
He was born in Naples as Michele Andrea Agniello Costa. He studied in Naples with his father, a ...
got him engagements in the leading orchestras. He was a member of the
Covent Garden opera
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orchestra from 1855.
He made his debut as a solo player at a concert given on 22 April 1863 by the
Musical Society of London, and succeeded
Prosper Sainton
Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton (5 June 1813 – 17 October 1890) was a French violinist.
Life
Sainton was the son of a merchant at Toulouse, where he was born. He entered the Paris Conservatoire under François Antoine Habeneck in 1831 ...
as leader at Covent Garden in 1869. He led the Covent Garden orchestra for twenty-five years.
He also took over from Sainton as the Leader of the Three Choirs Festival orchestra in 1882.
He taught at the National Training School, the Croydon Conservatoire of Music, the Guildhall School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, and Trinity College, London. He has the distinction of being the first president of the College of Violinists.
He was an early proponent of the violin recital.
His concert at St James's Hall on 20 January 1881, which included the works of Molique and Spohr, is “widely recognized as the first public violin recital.”
For many years, Carrodus had led the orchestra of the Philharmonic Society
and those of the great provincial festivals. The coveted ''Carrodus'' violin, made by
Guarneri in 1743, was said to have belonged to Carrodus.
Carrodus was constantly striving "for improving the standard of string playing in English orchestras." He was famous for setting extremely high standards in his own playing and in that of his pupils.
Lilian Baylis
Lilian Mary Baylis
CH (9 May 187425 November 1937) was an English theatrical producer and manager. She managed the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells theatres in London and ran an opera company, which became the English National Opera (ENO); a theatre ...
was one of his notable students. He taught her violin at the Royal Academy of Music.
In addition to editions of the treatises of Loder and Spohr, Carrodus published his own “Chats to violin students on how to study the violin.”
He published two violin solos and a , and was a very successful teacher.
He edited a popular six-volume edition of violin duets for Pitman's Sixpenny Musical Library.
He died at
Hampstead
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,
London
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on 13 July 1895 and was buried in a family grave on the eastern side of
Highgate Cemetery
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.
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English violinists
1836 births
1895 deaths
Burials at Highgate Cemetery
People from Keighley
Artists' Rifles soldiers
19th-century violinists
British male violinists
19th-century English musicians
19th-century British male musicians