Stross Quartet

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Concert poster 1935

The Stross Quartet (formerly the quartet of the Cologne student days and Grümmer Quartet ) was an important German string quartet from Cologne (1922–1931) and Munich (1934–1966). The name giver was the long-time Primarius Wilhelm Stross .

It was in the tradition of Joseph Joachim and, like the Klingler Quartet , the Busch Quartet , the Havemann Quartet , the Amar Quartet , the Wendling Quartet and the Strub Quartet, influenced the German string quartet landscape in the first half of the 20th century Century significantly with.

During the Second World War , the members of the quartet were released from military service, which was a rarity. From 1940 the string quartet often played at Wehrmacht concerts. It also appeared at NSDAP and Kraft durch Freude events and in hospitals.

The ensemble was able to continue its work during the Allied occupation . After the Second World War, the Stross Quartet advanced to become the most important German string quartet alongside the Koeckert Quartet. International concert tours have taken the ensemble through Europe as well as Asia, Africa and South America. In the early 1960s the Goethe-Institut organized concerts in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Cyprus and Greece. The quartet has also performed with important foreign actors such as the Paris Loewenguth Quartet and the Vienna Philharmonic Wind Association .

After the founder's death in 1966, Ingo Sinnhoffer wound up the Stross Quartet. The violinist Josef Märkl and the cellist Rudolf Metzmacher founded the Märkl Quartet in 1968 , which continued the tradition of the Stross Quartet.

The ensemble's repertoire was very broad (including Bach, Bartók, Reger, Blacher, Brahms, Bruckner, Dvořák, Fasch, Gál, Grieg, Haydn, Hindemith, Humperdinck, Pfizner, Ravel, Respighi, Smetana, Schumann, Verdi and Viotti) . Above all, the cyclical performances of the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert are of particular importance. Throughout its history, the string quartet brought modern compositions by Martin Charles Hasse , Oscar von Pander , Richard Trunk and Mordechai Sheinkman to premiere .

The Stross Quartet presented several recordings and radio recordings.

Members

The string quartet was reshuffled several times, with Wilhelm Stross almost always being primary violinist:

  • 1st violin: Wilhelm Stross (1922–1929 and 1929–1966), Hans-Detlev Grümmer (1929) and Ingo Sinnhoffer (1966)
  • 2nd violin: Otto Holm (1922–1929), Wilhelm Stross (1929), Hermes (1929–1931), Anton Huber (1934–1937), Franz Schmidtner (1937/38), Richard Heber (1938–1944), Karl -Albrecht Hermann (1944–1949), Heinz Endres (1949–1952), Kurt-Christian Stier (1952–1961), Oskar C. Yatko (1961–1964) and Josef Märkl (1964–1966)
  • Viola: Fritz Lang (1921–1929), Hermann Zitzmann (1929), Otto Holm (1929–1931), Valentin Härtl (1934–1948 and 1952–1958), Siegfried Meinecke (1948–1952), Georg Schmid (1958–1961 ), Ingo Sinnhoffer (1961–1963) and Gérard Ruymen (1963–1966)
  • Violoncello: Kurt Friedrich (1922–1929), Paul Grümmer (1929 and 1937–1940), A. Johnen (1929–1931), Anton Walter (1934–1937) and Rudolf Metzmacher (1940–1966)

Discography (selection)

literature

  • Wolfgang Gruhle: String Quartet Lexicon: Composers, Works, Interpreters . 3rd updated and expanded edition, TRIGA - Der Verlag, Gelnhausen 2005, ISBN 3-89774-406-6 , p. 323.
  • Norbert Hornig:  Stross Quartet. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 16 (Strata - Villoteau). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1136-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Alain Pâris: Classical music in the 20th century: instrumentalists, singers, conductors, orchestras, choirs . 2nd expanded, completely revised edition, dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1 , p. 1056.
  • Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 226 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Gruhle: String Quartet Lexicon: Composers, Works, Interpreters . 3rd updated and expanded edition, TRIGA - Der Verlag, Gelnhausen 2005, ISBN 3-89774-406-6 , p. 323.
  2. ↑ a b c d Norbert Hornig:  Stross Quartet. In: MGG Online (subscription required).
  3. ^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 11.
  4. ↑ a b c Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 226 f.
  5. ↑ Mario Dunkel: 'It Should Always Be a Give-and-Take'. The Transformation of West German Music Diplomacy in the 1960s . In: European Journal of Musicology 16/2 (2017), pp. 191–207, here: p. 194.
  6. ^ Alain Pâris: Classical music in the 20th century: instrumentalists, singers, conductors, orchestras, choirs . 2nd expanded, completely revised edition, dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1 , p. 1056.
  7. ^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 158.