Wilhelm Fitzenhagen News
German musician (1848-1890)
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- Duchy of Brunswick
- composer, music teacher, university teacher, cellist
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2021-07-13 20:46:29
The most familiar version of the Rococo Variations was the result of alterations to Tchaikovsky's original score made by German cellist Wilhelm Fitzenhagen. Tchaikovsky had dedicated the variations to the cellist and asked for advice about it. Fitzenhagen proceeded to make changes to the solo cello line, as well as re-ordering the variations and omitting […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-06-12 09:01:31
Hee-Young Lim: the young Korean cellist in Prokofiev & Rachmaninov cello sonatas on Sony Classical
[…] great 20th century Russian composers. The third, of course, being Shostakovich, and fascinatingly all three composers only wrote one cello sonata. Through the sonatas we can detect a fascinating web of influence by major Russian cellists. The threads go back to the 19th century when Hector Berlioz visited Russia and conducted Beethoven's Symphony No. Five, in the audience was a nine-year old Anatoly Brandukov, who would study with the great German cellist Wilhelm Fitzenhagen. It was Fitzenhagen who premiered Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococco Theme (in his own arrangement of the work) as well as playing in the first performances of Tchaikovsky's quartets and piano trio. Brandukov's first solo concert was sponsored by composer and pianist Nikolay Rubinstein, a close friend of Tchaikovsky and younger brother of Anton Rubinstein, who founded the St Petersburg Conservatory; Brandukov would go on to play Anton Rubinstein's two cello sonatas. Tchaikovsky admired […]
2019-11-30 16:13:20
Tchaikovsky’s ‘Variations On a Rococo Theme’ Premiered On This Day in 1877 [ON-THIS-DAY]
Tchaikovsky’s ‘Variations on a Rococo Theme‘ Op. 33 for Cello and Orchestra premiered on this day in 1877. The first performance was given by German virtuoso Wilhelm Fitzenhagen in Moscow – conducted by Nikolai Rubinstein. The 20-minute bravura work is a much loved standard in today’s cello competition and concert repertoire. VC YOUNG ARTIST ZLATOMIR FUNG | TCHAIKOVSKY | […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2019-10-12 10:28:25
Voices in the Wilderness: cellist Raphael Wallfisch on his series of cello concertos by exiled Jewish composers
[…] finally arrived; Piatigorsky just had to open it before the lesson could start. And it was not the ending that he had wanted. Raphael has tried the revised ending out in performance and feels that it is not as good as the original.And it was from Piatigorsky that Raphael was able to get a copy of the score of the original version of Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations. These had been significantly altered by the dedicatee, Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, whose version was the only one available in the West. Tchaikovsky's original remained buried in Moscow, and Raphael was lucky to get the score from Piatigorsky and always played this version. For years he travelled with his own set of parts, though now it has been published by Peters Edition, edited by Raphael, the first time the original version has been published outside Russia. One of the problems with a work like the Rococo […]
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