Adolf Busch
Adolf Busch (born August 8, 1891 in Siegen , † June 9, 1952 in Guilford , Vermont , USA ) was a German violinist and composer from 1935 Swiss .
Life
The son of the instrument maker Wilhelm Busch studied violin in Cologne with Willy Hess and Bram Eldering , and received composition lessons from Fritz Steinbach . In addition to this training at the Cologne Conservatory , he received composition lessons from the Bonn music director Hugo Grüters , whose daughter Frieda he later married. In 1912 he was concertmaster in Vienna and received in 1918 a professor at the Academy of Music in Berlin . There he founded the world-famous Busch Quartet . Duo partner was among others Rudolf Serkin . He was a soloist among great conductors such as Arturo Toscanini , Bruno Walter , Wilhelm Furtwängler , Adrian Boult and John Barbirolli .
In protest against the appointment of the composer Franz Schreker as head of the music academy, he resigned in 1920 and only moved to Darmstadt in 1922 and to Basel in 1927, where he was also the teacher of Yehudi Menuhin . He worked in Basel until 1939 , where he founded his own chamber orchestra. In 1936 he founded the Busch Players in England . Busch was an opponent of the National Socialists, and when they tried to win him back, he said that he would “return with pleasure” on the day that “Hitler, Goebbels and Goering would be publicly hanged”. From 1933 to 1949 he no longer performed in Germany.
In 1939 he emigrated to the USA, where he soon settled with Rudolf Serkin , who had married his daughter Irene in 1935, in Guilford near Brattleboro (Vermont). They soon formed the “Busch-Serkin Trio” together with his brother Hermann Busch . There he developed a rich artistic and educational activity. Also with Serkin, he founded the Marlboro Music Festival in 1951, which takes place in Marlboro, Vermont.
He died in Guilford, Vermont in 1952.
Adolf Busch was the brother of the conductor Fritz Busch , the cellist Hermann Busch , the actor Willi Busch and the pianist Heinrich Busch .
Although primarily known as an interpreter, Busch was also a prolific composer with a late Romantic character who was stylistically close to Johannes Brahms , Max Reger and Othmar Schoeck . Chamber music forms the core of his work, with orchestral works, choral symphonies, piano and organ pieces and songs.
Busch received numerous honors, including honorary membership of the Beethoven House in Bonn in 1921 .
Works (selection)
Orchestral works
- Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 20
- Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 31, premiered December 19, 1924: Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden , conductor: Fritz Busch , soloist: Rudolf Serkin
- Symphony in E minor, Op. 38, dedicated to Fritz Busch. Premiere November 25, 1927: New York Symphony Orchestra , cond .: Fritz Busch
Chamber music
- Serenade for string quartet op.14
- Piano Trio in A minor op.15
- Suite in A minor for viola solo op.16a
- German Dances for Violin, Clarinet and Violoncello Op. 26,3
- String quartet in one movement, Op. 29
- Quintet for saxophone and string quartet in E flat major op.34
- Piano quintet op.35
- 5 preludes and fugues for string quartet op.36
- String sextet in G major op.40
- Piano trio in C minor op.48
- Clarinet Sonata in A major, Op. 54
- Violin Sonata No. 2 op.56
- String Quartet in A minor op.57
- Piano quartet in B minor, Op. 59
- String Quartet in B minor
Organ works
- Bach Fantasy Fugue op.19
- Passacaglia and Fugue op.27
- 8 chorale preludes op.60a
- Toccata and Fugue op.67
Songs
- 3 songs for soprano, viola or violin or violoncello and piano op.3
- Songs for soprano and piano op.11
- Songs for soprano and piano op.12
literature
- Wolfgang Rehm: Busch, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 58 ( digitized version ).
- Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia , 2nd revised and expanded edition, Volume 2, Munich, Publisher: KG Saur Verlag , 2005, p. 240. ISBN 978-3-598-25032-3
- Tully Potter: Adolf Busch - The Life of an Honest Musician , 2-Volume Set (Two Volume Set including two CDs) London, Publisher: Toccata Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-907689-50-8
- Adolf Busch, 1891-1952. Catalog raisonné , edited by Dominik Sackmann , Zurich 1994
Web links
- Works by and about Adolf Busch in the catalog of the German National Library
- The Busch Brothers Theater in Dahlbruch
- The Busch Quartet in recordings from the 1930s broadcast manuscript for Deutschlandfunk
- Adolf Busch discography (pdf)
- Friends of the Busch Brothers eV
- Brothers Busch Prize
- Brothers BuschArchive at the Max Reger Institute
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolf Busch. Naxos, accessed September 14, 2019 .
- ^ Reinhard Müller: The Marienthal Study: Adolf Busch . Archive for the history of sociology in Austria of the Institute for Sociology of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, June 2008, accessed on December 4, 2017.
- ↑ Not a wrong note . In: Siegener Zeitung , December 24, 2011, p. 20.
- ^ Marlboro Festival ( Memento of February 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) - history
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Busch, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violinist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wins |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1952 |
| Place of death | Guilford (Vermont) , USA |