Rudolf Kolisch News
Austrian musician (1896-1978)
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- classical music
- United States of America, Austria
- violinist, university teacher, conductor
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2022-09-26 14:10:03
Arnold Schoenberg, part III, 2022
[…] Society gave 117 concerts, playing 154 different works in 353 performances (so the music was repeated twice on average). With peace in Europe, Schoenberg’s fame (and notoriety) grew. He was made president of the International Mahler League in Amsterdam and conducted many concerts across Europe. Also, in 1923 his wife Mathilde died. Even though the marriage never recovered after her 1908 romance with Richard Gerstl, Schoenberg was deeply pained. Soon after, though, he married Gertrud Kolisch, the sister of his pupil, the violinist Rudolf Kolisch (Kolisch performed at the Society’s concerts, and later, once the Society was dissolved, he founded a quartet which often played the music of Schoenberg and his students). In 1926 Schoenberg was offered a position at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, previously occupied by the recently deceased Busoni, and he moved to Berlin for the third time. This was also a time of active […]
2020-03-25 11:20:00
'The violinist is really playing "fiddle" music': Schoenberg's Violin Concerto
[…] without personal transcendental mastery of the instrument, Schoenberg out-virtuosoed the virtuosi with a work declared unplayable: all of which added to its mystique – and also to the downright fear it seems to have inspired in potential performers. Schoenberg told the Los Angeles concert organiser, Peter Yates, that since Jascha Heifetz had declared it unplayable, there was no one alive who would be able to perform it. Schoenberg had approached Heifetz, yet another émigré, when Kolisch, over-extended with other work commitments, had regretfully declined. Moreover, a music critic, José Rodriguez, informed Schoenberg that ‘a virtuoso’ had said it would remain unplayed until violinists acquired new fourth fingers. Schoenberg, Rodriguez reported, had laughed ‘like a pleased child’ at that, saying: ‘Yes, yes. That will be fine. The concerto is extremely difficult, just as much for the head as for the hands. I am delighted to add another unplayable work to the […]
2020-03-25 11:20:00
'The violinist is really playing "fiddle" music': Schoenberg's Violin Concerto
[…] without personal transcendental mastery of the instrument, Schoenberg out-virtuosoed the virtuosi with a work declared unplayable: all of which added to its mystique – and also to the downright fear it seems to have inspired in potential performers. Schoenberg told the Los Angeles concert organiser, Peter Yates, that since Jascha Heifetz had declared it unplayable, there was no one alive who would be able to perform it. Schoenberg had approached Heifetz, yet another émigré, when Kolisch, over-extended with other work commitments, had regretfully declined. Moreover, a music critic, José Rodriguez, informed Schoenberg that ‘a virtuoso’ had said it would remain unplayed until violinists acquired new fourth fingers. Schoenberg, Rodriguez reported, had laughed ‘like a pleased child’ at that, saying: ‘Yes, yes. That will be fine. The concerto is extremely difficult, just as much for the head as for the hands. I am delighted to add another unplayable work to the […]
2018-09-10 03:43:24
Schoenberg and so much more, 2018
[…] "Method of composing with twelve tones which are related only with one another." Variations for Orchestra were written in 1926-1928. Up till 1926 Schoenberg lived, with short interruptions, in Vienna. In 1923 his first wife, Mathilde, died. Even though their relationship never fully recovered after an “episode” in 1908 when Mathilde left Schoenberg for the painter Richard Gerstl, they remained friends, and her death was a blow to Schoenberg. Several months later he married Gertrud Kolisch, the sister of his pupil Rudolf Kolisch, a violinist who lead the Kolisch Quartet in Vienna, and later, after emigrating to the US, the Pro Arte Quartet. In 1926 Schoenberg accepted the directorship of a Master Class in Composition at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. He moved to Berlin and several of his students followed him there. The following seven years, till the Nazis came to power and Schoenberg was forced to […]
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