Alfred Jaëll

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Alfred Jaëll

Alfred Jaëll also Jaell (born March 5, 1832 in Trieste , † February 27, 1882 in Paris ) was an Austrian pianist and composer .

Life

Alfred Jaëll received his first music lessons from his father Eduard Jaëll. As a former music director in Vienna and a talented violinist, he founded a music school in Trieste in 1839 .

Barely eleven years old, Alfred Jaëll made his first art trip to Italy and received such applause here and later in Vienna that Carl Czerny offered to direct his further studies. Jaëll became interested in pianos made by the Ibach company very early on , when he was performing in Elberfeld at the age of 14 .

From 1844 Jaëll went on art trips through Italy, Germany , Belgium , France and the USA as well as Canada .

In April 1856 he was appointed court pianist by King George V of Hanover . He later lived with his wife Marie , née Trautmann, a well-known pianist and gifted composer, in Paris, where the friend of Charles Ernest Appy , Johannes Brahms , Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt was highly regarded as a virtuoso and teacher, and on February 27, 1882 died. Jaëll worked closely with the cellist Léon Jacquard on his concert tours .

Jaëll's game was described by contemporaries as "preferably brilliant", reminiscent of Sigismund Thalberg . His compositions, consisting of salon pieces , transcriptions , fantasies about opera motifs, etc., were characterized more by brilliance and euphony than by depth. He published his pieces a. a. at CFW Siegel (music publisher and music store, Leipzig ). Based on Jaëll's particular corpulence at an early age, Hans von Bülow dubbed him "our fat Jaëll".

Eduard Hanslick characterized him: “A delicious touch, velvety soft yet powerfully full, in the tutti easily dominating the orchestra, a brilliantly refined technique that is trained on all sides, scattering the passages like pearls and culminating in trills. Above all, J. is a salon player in the best, namely in the sense of the word that does not exclude musical education and the understanding of higher artistic spheres. As far as the taste is sufficient, J. knows how to do justice to classical compositions. His nature alone belongs to that feminine snuggling, who like to move in small forms in the circle of the graceful and graceful, prefer to avoid the big, passionate. ”( Neue Freie Presse 1862, No. 352.)

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  1. ↑ ibach.de ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and PDF file @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ibach.de
  2. ↑ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 44, No. 18 of April 25, 1856, p. 195: "On the occasion of his recent appearance at a court concert in Hanover, Alfred Jaell received the title of court pianist from the king." ( Digitized version )
  3. ↑ Steinseltz, le village accessed on September 19, 2010
  4. ^ Lexicon article "Jaëll, Marie" of the Sophie Drinker Institute
  5. ↑ Quoted from Wikisource
personal data
SURNAME Jaëll, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alfred Jaell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1882
Place of death Paris