Antonio Janigro

Antonio Janigro

Antonio Janigro (born January 21, 1918 in Milan ; † May 1, 1989 ibid) was an Italian cellist , conductor and university professor .

Adolescent years

Antonio Janigro received his first piano lessons at the age of six. He then went to Gilberto Crepax at the Milan Conservatory . From 1929, on the recommendation of Pablo Casals, he moved to the École Normale de Musique in Paris and studied cello with Diran Alexenian. He was awarded six national and international prizes and began his international solo career as early as 1933. In 1937 he finally finished his studies.

Soloist, chamber music player, conductor, teacher

As a cellist, Janigro became famous above all for his sound culture, which placed him in a row with virtuosos such as Emanuel Feuermann , János Starker and Pierre Fournier .

In addition to his solo appearances, Janigro soon made a name for himself in the field of chamber music. He played sonatas with Dinu Lipatti , Carlo Zecchi and Jörg Demus and trios with George Enescu , Paul Badura-Skoda and Jean Fournier .

Antonio Janigro also dealt with orchestral conducting after the Second World War. In 1954 he founded the Zagreb Soloists , which under his direction (1954 to 1967) developed into one of the best string orchestras in the world. He then went to the Saarland Radio Chamber Orchestra (1968 to 1971) as the successor to Karl Ristenpart . From 1971 to 1974 he headed the Camerata Academica of the Salzburg Mozarteum .

Janigro has been very successful in promoting the next generation. From 1965 to 1974 he taught at the Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf and from 1975 at the Stuttgart University , since 1971 also at the Mozarteum in Salzburg . Aesthetically in the tradition of the Casals era, he succeeded in training and promoting a number of modern and successful young cellists. His great merit as a pedagogue was above all to convey principles and allow individuals. The result was a broad spectrum of very different player personalities, the majority of whom were taught at the Stuttgart University of Music and the Salzburg Mozarteum. His most prominent students include Antonio Meneses , who won the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1982 , Mario Brunello, Thomas Demenga and Giovanni Sollima . Assistants and students were also Julius Berger, Michael Flaksman, Michael Groß, Andrej Petrac, Mario De Secondi, Gustavo Tavares, Christoph Theinert , Stefan Tittgen, Stefan Trauer.

Janigro published important recordings a. a. with Yehudi Menuhin (Brahms, double concert) and Alfred Brendel (Mozart, piano concertos).

He was personally friends a. with Dmitri Shostakovich .

Discography

• Suites for cello solo by Johann Sebastian Bach ;
• Double concerto by Johannes Brahms with Jean Fournier (violin) and Hermann Scherchen (conductor);
• The cello sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven with Jörg Demus (piano);
• Italian cello sonatas by Pietro Locatelli , Luigi Boccherini and Girolamo Frescobaldi with Antonio Beltrami (piano);
• 6 Sonatas a Quattro by Gioachino Rossini with the Zagreb Soloists
• Don Quxote by Richard Strauss with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Fritz Reiner .

Web links

• Works by Antonio Janigro in the catalog of the German National Library
• Antonio Janigro Association with biography