Willy Burmester
Willy Burmester (born March 16, 1869 in Hamburg ; † January 16, 1933 there ; actually Carl Adolph Wilhelm Burmester ) was a German violinist , composer and editor .
Burmester studied with his father and from 1882 to 1885 with Joseph Joachim at the Royal University of Music in Berlin . From 1886 he went on concert tours, became concertmaster in Sondershausen in 1890 and lived in Weimar , Helsingfors , Darmstadt and Berlin.
He composed a serenade for string quartet and double bass, published autobiographical memoirs under the title Fifty Years of Artists' Life, arranged works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Handel, and created versions for violin and piano.
The Violin Concerto by Jean Sibelius was intended for him. However, because of Willy Burmester's other appointment obligations, there was actually no premiere of this concert with Burmester.
Burmester has repeatedly participated in world premieres of works by musical contemporaries. So he took over z. B. in the year 1898 in Mainz the violin part in the world premiere of the piano trio No. 1 in C sharp minor op.100 by Philipp Scharwenka .
literature
- Gudrun Becker-Weidmann: Burmester, Carl Adolph Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 55 ( digitized version ).
- Horst Seeger : music lexicon persons A-Z . Deutscher Verlag für Musik , Leipzig 1981, p. 128.
- Brockhaus-Riemann-Musiklexikon . Volume 1. A-D. Atlantis Musikbuch-Verlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-254-08396-2 , p. 192.
Web links
- Works by and about Willy Burmester in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Fifty years of artistic life in the catalog of the German National Library
- ^ Tchaikovsky Research
- ↑ Andrea Lauber: Strong pieces. Sibelius - Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 , br-online, accessed on September 27, 2019
- ↑ www.altenbergtrio.at
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burmester, Willy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burmester, Carl Adolph Wilhelm (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1933 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |