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Arno Hilf, around 1900

Franz Arno Hilf (born March 14, 1858 in Bad Elster ; † August 2, 1909 there ) was a German violin virtuoso . Among other things, he was concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and first violinist of the Gewandhaus Quartet .

Life

Arno Hilf came from a family of musicians. He was born in Bad Elster in 1858 as the son of a musician. His brother Robert Hilf (1859–1911), his uncles Christian Adam Arno Hilf and Christoph Wolfgang Hilf and his cousins Oskar Korndörfer and Ernst Korndörfer were also musicians and all played in the Gewandhaus Orchestra.

He received violin lessons from his uncle Christian Adam Arno Hilf and piano lessons from his father. From 1872 to 1876 he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory with Ferdinand David , Engelbert Röntgen and Henry Schradieck .

From 1878 to 1888 he was second concertmaster at the Bolshoi Theater and teacher at the Moscow Conservatory . From 1878 to 1885 he was second violin in the Quartet of the Russian Music Society and from 1880 to 1915 in the Hřímalý Quartet in Moscow.

He then returned to Germany and became concertmaster of the court orchestra in Sondershausen and teacher at the local conservatory. From 1889 to 1891 he was concert master of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and at the same time the first violinist of the Gewandhaus Quartet. In addition, from 1892 he was the first violin teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory.

His students included Walter Bach , Clemens Meyer , Gabriel del Orbe , Heinrich Schachtebeck , Gustav Schmidt and Hans Stieber .

literature

Alberto Bachmann: An Encyclopedia of the Violin . Dover Publications, Mineola 2008, ISBN 978-0-486-46618-7 , p. 364.
Albin Buchholz , Marion Schulz: Arno Hilf - violin virtuoso, teacher, composer (= writings of the Neuberin Museum . 38). Neuberin-Museum Reichenbach, Reichenbach im Vogtland 2018, ISBN 978-3-932626-38-8 .
Hans-Rainer Jung, Claudius Böhm : The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 , p. 167.
Help . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 9, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1907, p. 330 .

Web links

Commons : Arno Hilf - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 185.
^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 128.
^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 113.

personal data
SURNAME	Help Arno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Help Franz Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German violin virtuoso
DATE OF BIRTH	March 14, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bad Elster
DATE OF DEATH	2nd August 1909
Place of death	Bad Elster

[1] Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 185.

[2] Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 128.

[3] Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 113.