Arnold Földesy

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Földesy's autograph from 1904

Arnold Földesy (born December 20, 1882 in Budapest , † May 29, 1940 in Budapest) was a Hungarian cellist .

Life

His father was a violinist at the Budapest Royal Opera . Arnold Földesy studied at the Hochschen Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main with Hugo Becker , at the Berlin University of Music with Robert Hausmann and finally with David Popper at the Music Academy in Budapest. From 1908 to 1915 he held a professorship for the training class at the Budapest Conservatory ( Nemzeti Zenede ), and from 1908 to 1912 he was solo cellist at the Royal Opera there.

Földesy became the first solo cellist with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1915 , and began a solo career in 1924. In 1933 he retired to Budapest and only gave a few guest appearances.

In 1905 Földesy performed with Elizabeth Parkina and John Amadio in Australia and received positive reviews . The New York Times was less enthusiastic on November 6, 1907 about his first appearance in the USA at Mendelssohn Hall. Although his technique was recognized, his tone was clearly too rough and almost scratchy.

Gregor Piatigorsky reports in his autobiography about his acquaintance with Földesy. At one of the first meetings he met the artist naked, he had given him his cello, which he alternately referred to as the early Stradivarius and Amati , to play while he was taking a foot bath himself. Földesy himself complained bitterly about the instrument and the damage it had suffered and finally sold it through the instrument dealer Emil Hermann. Piatigorsky took possession of the cello and played it for years. Today it is owned by Daniel Müller-Schott as 'Ex Shapiro' Matteo Goffriller Cello .

Audio documents

Földesy made over 150 recordings, for example for Deutsche Grammophon (1915–1932), Odeon (1920–1924), Vox (1925–1925) and Electrola (1926–1930).

Quotes

Béla Bartók : “One of the best, through musicality, temperament and the like. technical mastery of outstanding representatives of his instrument "(in: Das neue Musiklexikon , edited by Alfred Einstein. Berlin: Hesse 1926)

Gregor Piatigorsky : “There was a time when I often got together with Arnold Földesy, the Hungarian cellist. He was unreliable, exuberant, and not very educated, but the mastery of his instrument attracted me. The whole appearance of this man, the glass eye in the careworn face, his princely generosity, his cello, which was only about two centimeters from the floor on the spike, everything was as unusual as his artistry. ”(Gregor Piatigorsky: My cello and me and ours Encounters. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1975. P. 138. ISBN 3-423-01080-0 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Voice of His Lord , Vol. VIII. No. 2/3, p. 32 (February / March 1916). Berlin: Deutsche Grammophon-AG
  2. ↑ A Zene (= The Music), vol. XXV. No. 14, p. 224 (June 1, 1940)
  3. ↑ Peter Muck in One Hundred Years of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra only mentions 1915 to 1916 as affiliation, but the orchestra's programs show Földesy as a soloist until well into the 1920s; Piatigorsky, who became principal cellist of the Philharmonic in 1924, speaks in his memoirs of Földesy as "my predecessor as concertmaster" (p. 138)
  4. ↑ http://www.daniel-plays-schumann.com/cd-recording.html
  5. ↑ His name is still listed in the Berlin address book from 1933, but no longer in 1934
  6. ↑ According to Terry King, Gregor Piatigorsky. The Life and Career of the Virtuoso Cellist , McFarland & Comp. 2010, ISBN 978-0-7864-4635-3 , p. 266, it dates from 1712.
  7. ↑ Quotes from newspaper reviews and Piatigorsky's autobiography ( Memento from March 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ German Music Archive: https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=newSearch¤tView=simple&selectedCategory=dnb.dma and contemporary record catalogs
personal data
SURNAME Földesy, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Földessy, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION cellist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1940
Place of death Budapest