Walter Petzer Video
critico musicale, pianista, insegnante di musica, compositore
- pianoforte
- Germania, Stati Uniti
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Frédéric Chopin Franz Xaver Scharwenka Hupfeld Graf Samter Philipp Scharwenka Theodor Kullak Richard Wüerst Heinrich Dorn Breitkopf Franz Liszt Johannes Brahms Ferdinand Hiller Hugo Kaun Gustav Hollaender Grünfeld Karl Klindworth Max Bruch Ferruccio Busoni Gustav Mahler Arthur Nikisch José Vianna Motta Schubert Gustav Ernest Berliner Singakademie 1810 1849 1850 1865 1868 1869 1870 1871 1874 1877 1879 1880 1881 1886 1893 1896 1898 1901 1905 1914 1918 1924
Frédéric Chopin +••.••(...)) NOCTURNE Op. 15 Nr. 2 Gespielt von Xaver Scharwenka +••.••(...)) Notenrolle TRIPHONOLA der Firma HUPFELD, Leipzig (um 1918), Klavier der Marke HERMANN GRAF, AUGUSTUSBURG (um 1924) (Theophil Franz) Xaver Scharwenka (* 6. Januar 1850 in Samter bei Posen; † 8. Dezember 1924 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Komponist, Pianist und Musikpädagoge polnisch-tschechischer Herkunft. Er ist der Bruder des Komponisten und Musikpädagogen Philipp Scharwenka sowie Onkel des Komponisten und Organisten Walter Scharwenka. Scharwenka erhielt seine ersten musikalischen Unterweisungen in Posen, wo er auch das Gymnasium absolvierte. 1865 kam er nach Berlin, um an der Neuen Akademie der Tonkunst Klavier bei Theodor Kullak, Theorie und Komposition bei Richard Wüerst und Heinrich Dorn zu studieren. Nach Abschluss der Ausbildung arbeitete er dort von 1868 bis 1874 als Klavierlehrer. Mit einem dreifachen Debüt 1869 an der Sing-Akademie zu Berlin begann seine Karriere als Pianist, Dirigent und Komponist. Der Verlag Breitkopf & Härtel druckte auf Anhieb Scharwenkas Klaviertrio op. 1, seine Violinsonate op. 2 sowie 5 Polnische Tänze op. 3 für Klavier. 1877 entstand mit dem Klavierkonzert Nr.1 op. 32 eines seiner bedeutendsten und meist beachteten Werke, welches ihm den Weg in die musikalischen Zentren Europas und Nordamerikas ebnete. Dieses Konzert ist Franz Liszt gewidmet, der Scharwenka schon seit dem Erscheinen des 1. Polnischen Tanzes 1870 förderte. Auch mit Johannes Brahms, Ferdinand Hiller und Hugo Kaun pflegte Scharwenka freundschaftliche Kontakte. Mit Gustav Hollaender (Violine) und Heinrich Grünfeld (Cello) bildete er ein Klaviertrio und gestaltete 1871 bis 1881 Kammermusikabende in der Berliner Singakademie. In Berlin eröffnete er 1879 die kammermusikalisch ausgerichteten „Abonnemmentskonzerte" sowie 1886 eine Orchesterkonzertreihe, in der er sich als Dirigent profilierte. Gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder Philipp Scharwenka gründete er 1881 das Scharwenka-Konservatorium, das 1893 mit der Klavierschule von Karl Klindworth zum Klindworth-Scharwenka-Konservatorium zusammengelegt wurde. Zwischen 1880 und 1886 edierte er das Gesamtwerk Chopins und Schumanns, später auch Mendelssohns. Neben seiner Ernennung zum Hofpianisten wandte er sich auch verstärkt der Komposition zu. Ab1891 siedelte Scharwenka für sieben Jahre nach New York über und gründete dort sein zweites Konservatorium, das Scharwenka Conservatory of Music. Nach zahlreichen Konzert-Tourneen durch die USA kehrte er 1898 nach Deutschland zurück und wurde 1901 in den Senat der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Künste Berlin berufen. Er befreundete sich mit Max Bruch, konzertierte mit Ferruccio Busoni und führte seine Klavierkonzerte unter Gustav Mahler und Arthur Nikisch auf. Am 7. März 1905 nahm er 14 Klavierstücke für das Reproduktionsklavier Welte-Mignon auf, darunter zwei eigene Kompositionen. 1914 eröffnete er mit Walter Petzet eine weitere Meisterschule mit Klavierlehrerseminar. Zu seinen Schülern gehörten José Vianna da Motta, Kurt Schubert und Gustav Ernest. Mit zahlreichen höfischen Auszeichnungen sowie der Ehrendoktorwürde der Universität Tennessee (1896) bedacht, trat er ferner musikpolitisch als Vorsitzender des Musikpädagogischen Verbands und des Verbandes konzertierender Künstler Deutschlands in Erscheinung. (Quelle: WIKIPEDIA)
Franz Xaver Scharwenka Yuri Simonov Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka Samter Szamotuły Theodor Kullak Frédéric Chopin Grünfeld Hector Berlioz Franz Liszt Beethoven Hans Richter Richter Klindworth José Vianna Motta Fridtjof Backer Grøndahl Backer Backer Grøndahl Janson Mendelssohn Weber Schumann Rachmaninoff Earl Wild Erich Leinsdorf Stephen Hough Lawrence Foster Foster Philharmonia Orchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra City Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 1793 1847 1850 1869 1873 1874 1881 1886 1891 1893 1898 1907 1908 1910 1913 1914 1917 1919 1921 1924 1968 1996 2004
Franz Xaver Scharwenka +••.••(...)) Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 32 I. Allegro patetico - Adagio - Allegro animato II. Allegro assai 12:18 III. Allegro non tanto - Allegro molto e passionato - Cadenza: Maestoso - Allegro patetico (come prima) 20:28 Seta Tanyel, piano The Philharmonia Orchestra Yuri Simonov, conductor Franz Xaver Scharwenka (6 January 1850 / 8 December 1924) was a German pianist, composer and teacher. He was the brother of (Ludwig) Philipp Scharwenka +••.••(...)), who was also a composer and teacher of music. Franz Xaver Scharwenka was born in Samter, Prussia (Polish: Szamotuły; until 1793 and since 1919 part of Poland) in 1850. Although he began learning to play the piano by ear when he was 3, Scharwenka did not start formal music studies until he was 15, when his family moved to Berlin and he enrolled at the Akademie der Tonkunst. Under Theodor Kullak, his pianistic skills developed rapidly, and he made his debut at the Singakademie in 1869. He taught at the academy until entering military service in 1873. Upon his discharge in 1874, Scharwenka began touring as a concert pianist. Praised for the beauty of his tone, he was a renowned interpreter of the music of Frédéric Chopin. In 1881 Scharwenka organized a successful annual series of chamber and solo concerts at the Singakademie in conjunction with Gustav Holländer and Heinrich Grünfeld. That October he founded his own music school in Berlin. In 1886 he conducted the first in a series of orchestral concerts devoted to the music of Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt and Ludwig van Beethoven while continuing to tour extensively and play his works in collaboration with other artists such as the conductor Hans Richter and the violinist Joseph Joachim. This triple role as pianist, composer and educator would occupy Scharwenka for the rest of his career. In 1891, Scharwenka made his first tour of America. Deciding to emigrate, he opened a New York branch of his Scharwenka Music School. In 1893 the Berlin Scharwenka Conservatory was united with the Klindworth Conservatory, and in 1898 he returned there as Director, from New York. In 1914, with W. Petzet, he opened a School of Music with a piano teachers' seminary attached. Among pianists who received some instruction from him were José Vianna da Motta, Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl and Selmar Janson. His Methodik des Klavierspiels was published in Leipzig in 1907. In addition to his activities as a pianist, composer and founder of a music school, he also organized a series of concerts, focusing mainly on works by prominent composers of the century, including Beethoven, Berlioz and Liszt. Scharwenka made several recordings for Columbia Records in 1910 and 1913, including works of his own, as well as Chopin, Mendelssohn, Weber and Liszt: his account of Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu (Op. posth. 66) is admired. There are Welte-Mignon piano rolls, including the Chopin A-flat Waltz, Op 42, and the F minor Fantaisie (Op. 49), his performance of which was famous. He recorded his "Polish Dance No. 1" in E-flat minor, Op. 3, No. 1 on Ampico reproducing piano roll in 1921. He died in Berlin, Germany, in 1924. Scharwenka's own compositions include an opera (Mataswintha), a symphony, four piano concertos, chamber music (all with piano part) and numerous piano pieces; his piano idiom somewhat resembles Schumann and Rachmaninoff. The four piano concertos are substantial works. The first, in B-flat minor, Op. 32, was completed in 1874 and premiered the following year. Originally written as a solo piano fantasy, Scharwenka was dissatisfied, and reworked it with orchestra into this form. Franz Liszt accepted the dedication and performed it in Berlin. Its first recording was made in 1968 with Earl Wild and the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorf. Wild had learned the concerto as a boy under Selmar Janson, who had studied it directly with the composer. When Leinsdorf asked Wild to record the concerto, he was able to say "I've been waiting by the phone for forty years for someone to ask me to play this". The fourth concerto, in F minor, Op. 82 (1908), was premiered on 18 October 1908 in the Beethovensaal, Berlin, with Scharwenka's student Martha Siebold as the soloist and the composer himself conducting. Scharwenka's works were neglected for some years after his death; however, his "Polish Dance No. 1" in E-flat minor, Op. 3, No. 1, remained enormously popular. Since the mid-1990s, however, interest in his music has been rekindled, and recordings of most of his works are now available commercially. The recording of his Fourth Piano Concerto played by Stephen Hough with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster was voted Record of the Year by the British music magazine Gramophone in 1996. His Symphony in C minor, Op. 60, received its CD premiere in 2004.
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