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American vioinist (1903-1995)
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2024-02-19 16:02:25
Alban Berg, Part III, 2024
[…] just atonal but 12-tonal) – the Nazis considered it “Entartete,” that is “Degenerate.” And secondly, he was a pupil of a famous Jewish composer, Schoenberg, and that, in the eyes of the regime, tainted him even more. Wozzeck was banned (Erich Kleiber conducted the last performance of the opera in November of 1932), practically none of his music was being performed, and Berg’s financial situation was precarious. In January of 1935, the American violinist Louis Krasner commissioned Berg a violin concerto; financially, that was of great help and the concerto, dedicated to the 18-year-old daughter of Alma Mahler and the architect Walter Gropius, who died of polio, became one of Berg’s most successful compositions. Understanding that Lulu most likely wouldn’t be staged in Germany – or anywhere else – anytime soon, Berg decided to write a suite for soprano and orchestra based on the opera, the so-called Lulu Suite. Erich […]
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2021-12-24 09:41:14
The American violinist Louis Krasner is famed for... The post Where the Berg concerto violin lives now appeared first on Slipped Disc.
2021-04-19 14:21:34
The first performance was given by Ukrainian-American virtuoso Louis Krasner with Hermann Scherchen conducting. It was Berg's last composition and arguably his best-known. GIL SHAHAM | BERG VIOLIN CONCERTO | PAAVO JÄRVI & NHK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-03-25 11:20:00
'The violinist is really playing "fiddle" music': Schoenberg's Violin Concerto
[…] yet evincing the white heat demanded of a successful performance. The Latvian-Canadian violinist and composer, Louis Gesensway, playing in the orchestra for the first performance, was so incensed by its reception that he wrote to a newspaper extolling its ‘utmost perfection’, its lack of a single ‘trite or hackneyed phrase’, declaring moreover: ‘The violinist is really playing “fiddle” music.’ (Illustration from Berry, Arnold Schoenberg) Louis KrasnerPhotograph: Max Fenichel (1936), public domain In the end, the piece, dedicated to Webern, fell to Louis Krasner. Krasner, who had also commissioned and premiered Berg’s concerto, learned that Schoenberg was at work on the piece when he found himself on the same ocean liner as Kolisch in 1936. He practised the part for a year prior to its 1940 premiere with Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In a relatively unusual echo […]
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