Adolf Terschak

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Adolf Terschak, lithograph by Eduard Kaiser , 1850

Adolf Terschak (born April 6, 1832 in Prague , † October 3, 1901 in Breslau ) was an Austro-Hungarian flautist and composer .

Life

Terschak grew up in Sibiu , which is why he was later referred to as a Hungarian musician. He then studied at the Vienna Conservatory in Franz Joseph Zierer's flute class and Simon Sechter's composition class .

After graduating from the Conservatory in 1852, Terschak went on tour to Switzerland , France , Belgium and the Netherlands . In 1852 he made a guest appearance in St. Petersburg and in 1856 in Moscow . In 1876 and 1881 he performed in Norway and was awarded the Order of Saint Olav for his work in Nordlands Bilder (Opus 164). In 1878 he made a guest appearance in England and then lived for some time in Constantinople and Munich . In the early 1880s he gave concerts in Hungary , Romania and the Middle East .

Then Terschak made long trips in Russia . In 1887 he gave concerts in Dagestan and the Caucasus , in 1888 in Kharkov and Tomsk . This was followed by Irkutsk and, at the end of 1890, Vladivostok on the way to China and Japan . He stayed in Japan for a year and a half and then returned to Moscow via Vladivostok with concerts in Blagoveshchensk , Nerchinsk and Irkutsk in 1893. His Siberian trip caused a stir, so the London Daily News and The New York Times reported on it. On the next tour to Tashkent , he contracted pneumonia , so that he came to St. Petersburg with great difficulty and only returned to Moscow after a few months of healing. Finally he left for Breslau .

Terschak played the flute of the simple Viennese system , which the Viennese company Ziegler had made for him in 1850. In 1865 he visited Theobald Böhm in Munich and became acquainted with his flute, but with which he produced no sound, so that he considered it inferior. In 1878 he visited the Rudall & Carte flute workshop in England . He explained there that one could not play his works with the Böhm flute, whereupon the leading English flautist John Radcliff Terschak played the piece with the Böhm flute and Terschak left the workshop in anger.

Terschak composed more than 200 salon music pieces for flute, which, according to Böhm, made a lot of ado about nothing and were more finger exercises than pieces for soloists. After all, Terschak's virtuoso pieces were used by Professors Ferdinand Büchner and Wilhelm Kretschmann for the training of their master students. Terschak's pieces were often included in the practice programs for conservatories by Vladimir Zybin and Nikolai Platonov .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leonardo De Lorenzo: My Complete Story of the Flute: The Instrument, the Performer, the Music . Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas 1992, ISBN 0-89672-277-5 .
  2. ^ A b William Lines Hubbard: The American History and Encyclopedia of Music . Kessinger Publishing, 2005, p. 384 .
  3. ^ Siberia's Dignity Advanced . In: The New York Times . 1895.
  4. ↑ Ursula Pešek: Flute music from three centuries . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1990, ISBN 3-7618-0985-9 .
  5. ^ Henry Macaulay Fitzgibbon: The Story of the Flute . London 1914, ISBN 0-7222-3254-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Terschak, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian flautist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1901
Place of death Wroclaw