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Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer (1845–1930)
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2022-07-26 21:00:20
Alexander Glazunov composed the Violin Concerto in A minor Opus 82 in 1904–5 when he was at the height of his fame in Russia. It was premiered on 15 February 1905 in St Petersburg at a concert of the Russian Music Society, conducted by the composer, with the great violinist Leopold Auer (to whom it is dedicated) as the soloist. It was Auer’s fourteen-year-old pupil Mischa Elman who gave the first performances outside Russia in the same year, helping to build the work’s international reputation. Hans Keller claimed that Glazunov’s treatment of the solo violin’s character made the work ‘something
2022-05-05 16:18:33
On June 9, the auction house Tarisio is due to sell a 308-year-old Stradivarius violin. The instrument once belonged to the Russian violinist Toscha Seidel, who was born in Odessa in 1899 and studied with Leopold Auer. Seidel played on the violin for almost forty years, over the course of a career that saw […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-12-17 07:00:31
Tchaikovsky’s Sérénade Mélancolique: A Russian Lament
In January of 1875, Tchaikovsky met the great violinist and pedagogue, Leopold Auer. Tchaikovsky, who at the time was putting the finishing touches on his First Piano Concerto, accepted Auer’s request for a piece for violin and orchestra. The result was the single-movement Sérénade mélancolique, Op. 26. Auer’s initial rejection of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto led the composer to remove the dedication to Auer from both works. The first performance of the Sérénade ...
2021-09-30 16:26:20
Alexander Glazunov composed the Violin Concerto in A minor Opus 82 in 1904–5 when he was at the height of his fame in Russia. It was premiered on 15 February 1905 in St Petersburg at a concert of the Russian Music Society, conducted by the composer, with the great violinist Leopold Auer (to whom it is dedicated) as the soloist. It was Auer’s fourteen-year-old pupil Mischa Elman who gave the first performances outside Russia in the same year, helping to build the work’s international reputation. Hans Keller claimed that Glazunov’s treatment of the solo violin’s character made the work ‘something
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