Andreas Weißgerber

Andreas Weißgerber (born January 10, 1900 in Volos , † December 26, 1941 in Tel-Aviv ), also known as Chanosch Ben Mosche Weißgerber, was an Austro-Hungarian violinist.

Life

Weissgerber came from a Jewish family who had their roots in Sagadora near Chernivtsi in Bukovina ; a place at the easternmost end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , which was famous for its wonder rabbis. The white tanners settled in the Greek city of Volos ( Greek Βόλος ), where Andreas was born on January 10, 1900, shortly before they moved on to Smyrna, today's Turkish Izmir . Andreas received his first violin lessons in Athens .

As a violin-playing child prodigy, he performed in the big cities of the Ottoman Empire at the age of seven ; once he played in Constantinople for Sultan Abdul Hamid II , who gave him five parrots as a reward. Weissgerber attended the music academies in Budapest and Vienna , most recently he studied at the music academy in Berlin . His teacher Jenő Hubay (1858–1937) was in Budapest , with whom József Szigeti , Emil Telmányi , Jenő Ormándy and Paul Godwin also had lessons. In Berlin it was Issay Barmas (1872-1946), who was born in Odessa , who taught violin classes at the Stern Conservatory .

In the 1920s Weissgerber made concert tours through the German Empire , on which the composer Rudolf Wagner-Régeny accompanied him on the piano. They took him to the smallest provincial towns. He was also a popular guest on German radio stations. Important artists of his time such as Lovis Corinth , Max Liebermann and Max Slevogt made portraits of Weissgerber. Their appearance in the contemporary illustrated press documented its popularity.

With Eugen d'Albert at the piano, he made recordings for Odeon . He also recorded on VOX . There was Karol Szreter his accompanist. As the “Andreas Weißgerber Trio” he, his brother Joseph on the cello and Claudio Arrau on the piano could be heard.

After the seizure of power of Hitler when he high-reach only on events of the Jewish Cultural Association was allowed to occur, he played for the exclusively intended for Jewish artists label "Lukraphon". Kurt Sanderling was sitting here at the piano. In 1935 he gave a concert with the pianist Richard Goldschmied (1880–1941) at the Jüdischer Kulturbund in Hamburg , where works by Igor Stravinsky , whose music has since been considered “degenerate” , were performed.

In 1936 he followed his two years younger brother Joseph (1902–1954), who played as principal cellist with the Dresden Philharmonic and had left Germany in 1933, to emigrate to Palestine . Both were of Bronislaw Huberman been invited in the Symphony Palestine Orchestra of Palestine, later Israel Philharmonic Orchestra play along. Weissgerber is considered a co-founder of this orchestra, whose concertmaster he became.

A sound film, Shir Ivri ("Hebrew Melody"), which he made for the Reich Association of Jewish Cultural Associations in Germany at the time, was recently found among his brother's estate and has since been published again.

The Riga- born composer Marc Lavry wrote a concerto for violin and orchestra (op.78) for Weissgerber with the movements Allegro Moderato (Marcia) , Andante and Allegro Assai , which he performed on June 20, 1939 with the Palestine Radio Symphony Orchestra Performed.

Weissgerber died on December 26, 1941 in Tel-Aviv , Palestine / today: Israel of a heart attack.

Sound documents (selection)

For Odeon

• 1921: Gypsy Wise Men (Pablo de Sarasate)
• 1923: Andante Sostenuto from the C major Sonata (Mozart) (Odeon)
• 1923: Scherzo and Rondo from the Spring Sonata (Beethoven)
• 1923: Two movements (the Rondo is heavily cut) from Beethoven's Violin Sonata in F, Op 24
• Unknown year: Hungarian Dances No. 2 and 5
• unknown year: Csárdás / Hubay.

For Vox

• Trio, B flat major, op.11: Adagio / Beethoven
• Trio, B flat major, op.11: theme with variations / Beethoven.
• Trio, B flat major, op.99: Scherzo / Schubert.
• Trio, E flat major, op.99: Scherzo / Fr. Schubert.

For Lukraphon

• Hebrew melody (achron)
• Andantino (Martini)
• Csárdás (Hubay)
• Spanish dance from the opera “La Vida Breve” (Manuel de Falla)

Re-releases

• Horst JP Bergmeier, Ejal Jakob Eisler, Rainer E. Lotz: Gone. Documentation of Jewish musical life in Berlin, 1933–1938. (Beyond Recall. A record of Jewish musical life in Nazi Berlin, 1933-1938). Bear Family, Holste-Oldendorf 2001, DNB 974923648 .
• CD “EUGEN D'ALBERT (1864–1932)” from Symposium Records, 4, Arden Close, Overstrand, North Norfolk NR27 0PH, UK (Symposium Catalog No: 1146, Release Date: Aug 01, 1994, replaces CD1046) contains from Weissgerber / D'Albert the Odeon recordings Andante Sostenuto from the C major Sonata (Mozart) and Scherzo and Rondo from the Spring Sonata (Beethoven), both from 1923.
• Double CD “The Centaur Pianist”: Eugen d'Albert, Complete Studio Recordings, 1910–1928. label : arbiter; Release date February 28, 2006; Catalog No .: 147; contains 2 recordings on CD with Andreas Weissgerber: track 17: Violin Sonata In C, K. 296: Andante Sostenuto (Mozart), track 18: Violin Sonata In F, Op. 24: I. Scherzo (Beethoven), track 19: Violin Sonata In F, Op. 24: II. Rondo (Beethoven)

literature

• Friedrich Frick: Small Biographical Lexicon of Violinists. From the beginning of the violin to the beginning of the 20th century. Books on Demand, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-3907-8 .
• "Künstler am Rundfunk" - A pocket album from the magazine “Der deutsche Rundfunk”, dedicated to our readers. Rothgiesser and Diesing publishing house, Berlin 1932.
• Ronny Loewy: 'Only in closed events in front of members of the Jewish race'. Palestine films in the Jewish Cultural Association 1935–1938. In: Peter Zimmermann (ed.): History of documentary film in Germany. Vol. 3: Peter Zimmermann, Kay Hoffmann (eds.): Third Reich (1933–1945). Reclam, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-15-010586-2 , pp. 431-438.
• Rainer E. Lotz, Axel Weggen: Discography of the Judaica recordings. (= German National Discography, Series 6, Vol. 1), Birgit Lotz, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-9810248-2-6 .
• Barbara von der Lühe: Music was our salvation. The German-speaking founding members of the Palestine Orchestra. (= Series of scientific papers by the Leo Baeck Institute, Volume 58). Verlag Mohr Siebeck, 1998, ISBN 3-16-146975-5 .
• Jascha Nemtsov: Zionism in Music. Jewish music and national idea. (= Jewish music, studies and sources on Jewish musical culture, Volume 6). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-05734-9 .
• Gregor von Rezzori: "Memoirs of an Anti-Semite". A novel in five stories. Bertelsmann Verlag, 1979, ISBN 3-8205-3496-2 .
• Jonathan Scheiner: "La Cucaracha" in the synagogue cellar. An impressive edition documents the musical work of the Jewish Cultural Association 1933–1938. Review of the edition "Gone / Beyond Recall" at Bear Family. (online at: leo-baeck.org )
• Theo Stengel, Herbert Gerigk: Lexicon of Jews in Music. With a list of titles of Jewish works. Compiled on behalf of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP on the basis of official, party-officially checked documents. (= Publications of the institute of the NSDAP for researching the Jewish question, vol. 2). Bernhard Hahnefeld, Berlin 1941, DNB 362805148 .
• Robert Ullmann: Jewish music is a product of the 20th century. In: Badische Zeitung. September 9, 2008, accessed on January 31, 2014 (Review by: Heidy Zimmermann, Eckhard John: Jüdische Musik? -Fremdbilder, Eigenbilder. Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne 2006). 
• Hartwig Vens: Total Recall. Review of the edition Vorbei / Beyond Recall. at Bear Family. (online at: forum.hagalil.com )

Web links

• Andreas Weißgerber at LexM (2009, updated Jan. 24, 2012)
• Andreas Weißgerber at Claude Torres: Kulturbund (short biography and discography of recordings with Weißgerber)
• Andreas Weißgerber in the pocket album "Artists on the radio"  : Photo (vol. 2, p. 134)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stengel-Gerigk sp. 312
2. ↑ The writer Gregor von Rezzori (1914–1998), himself born in Chernivtsi, made him immortal in his "Memories of an Anti-Semite".
3. ↑ Stengel-Gerigk sp. 312 indicates 'Volo'; see. on the other hand postcard from 1913, where Athens is named as the place of birth .
4. ↑ cf. Torres [1]
5. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Von der Lühe p. 103.
6. ↑ cf. Frick pp. 31-32; at Barmas z. B. also learned the violinist and band leader Dajos Béla .
7. ↑ cf. Pocket album “Künstler am Rundfunk” vol. 2, p. 134 [2]  : The well-known violinist Andreas Weißgerber is a student of J. Barmas and has become known through numerous concert tours and guest performances on German broadcasters.
8. ↑ cf. Fig. At [3] from: Der Cross Section 5, August 1925, H. 8
9. ↑ Another piano accompanist from Weissgerber on this stamp was the young Michael Raucheisen , cf. ODEON O-7295 (Matrix number xxB.6604) Csárdás (Jenö Hubay, op. 33, no. 5) Andreas Weißgerber, violin, Michael Raucheisen, piano; recorded: 1921 and O-7295 (Matrix number xxB 6608) legend, by Henri Wieniawski op. 17, March 1921 [4] .
10. ↑ cf. Biography at [5]  : "Szreter recorded prolifically, beginning with acoustic records made for the German Vox label in the early 1920s."
11. ↑ cf. Information for archived copy ( memento of the original from March 31, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and Von der Lühe p. 39. 
12. ↑ cf. Lotz et al. [6] . The owner's name was Moritz Lewin and had his business premises in Berlin at Friedrichstrasse 208 and Grenadierstrasse 28, cf. Lotz [7]
13. ↑ Goldschmied was deported to Łódź / Litzmannstadt in 1941 and has since been considered missing, cf. LexM [8]  : In a concert that he gave on October 24, 1935 together with the violinist Andreas Weissgerber, Igor Stravinsky was on the program.
14. ↑ he came to Palestine in August 1933 and settled in Haifa, cf. Von der Lühe p. 39.
15. ↑ cf. Von der Lühe p. 102 f.
16. ↑ Copy in the Filmmuseum, Munich: 243 m / 8 '54 "; 35mm, see cine-holocaust HEBREW MELODY / MANGINA IVRIT ( Memento of October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); see also Jascha Nemtsov p. 286, and Loewy .
17. ↑ see DVD from Bergmeier, Horst JP / Eisler, Ejal Jakob / Lotz, Rainer E .: Gone. Documentation of Jewish musical life in Berlin, 1933-1938, Hambergen 2001.
18. ↑ cf. en.wikipedia Marc Lavry.
19. ↑ cf. [9]  : The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra was composed for violinist Andreas Weissgerber - Lavry's friend - who premiered it on June 20, 1939 with the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Palestine
20. ↑ cf. Von der Lühe p. 289.