August Duesberg

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August Duesberg, 1914

August Duesberg (born October 3, 1867 in Gelsenkirchen , † November 12, 1922 in Vienna ) was a German violinist and music teacher .

family

In 1894 he married the pianist, piano teacher and composer Natalie Duesberg (1873-1936), nee Jovourek, with whom he had two children. Nora Duesberg-Baranowska (1895–1982) and Herbert Duesberg (1902–1978) also became violinists, the son of the first violinist in the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic .

Education

August Duesberg studied at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin in 1883/84 , under August Wilhelmj in Wiesbaden in 1884/85 and at the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg in 1885/86 . In 1886/87 he attended the Conservatory in Austria's capital and in 1887/88 with Eugène Ysaye the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles in Brussels .

Musical development

In 1889 he founded the First Vienna People's Quartet for Classical Music , which he directed as first violinist. He had chosen the term Volksquartett very deliberately in order to clarify the aim of this ensemble: He intended to popularize chamber music , which was previously reserved for predominantly better-off circles, and kept the admission prices at a lower level than usual. Participants included Anna Lesser-Kiessling , Baroness Anna von Baumgarten , Gschöpf, Philomena Kurz (vocals). In 1895 the quartet also included Gallico (2nd violin), Heinrich Uhlemann ( viola ) and Otto Stieglitz ( cello ). In more than three hundred concerts, the quartet performed not only its classical and romantic repertoire but also numerous contemporary works, including around seventy world premieres.

Duesberg appeared as a soloist, but also as a duet with his wife. From 1892 he taught as a music teacher and together with his wife founded the Duesberg Music School for violin, singing and piano in Vienna at the end of the 1890s , where he taught piano and singing - first at Margarethenstrasse 26 (Vienna-Wieden), later at Mariahilferstraße 8 (Vienna-Mariahilf) and Döblinger Hauptstraße 14 (Vienna-Döbling). Carl Lafite , who later co-founded the New Vienna Conservatory, and Hermann Ritter von Schmeidel also taught at this school .

August Duesberg composed a sonnet for the composer Louise Erdödy (1853–1924).

Duesberg died at the age of 55 and was buried in Vienna's central cemetery.

Works

  • Bow stroke regulator (model 1910). Constructed by August Duesberg. Self-published, Vienna approx. 1910.
  • New elementary violin school on a catechetical basis . Universal-Edition, Vienna a. Leipzig 1910.

honors and awards

  • July 12, 1914: Large golden Salvator Medal of the City of Vienna (rarely awarded to Tonkünstler)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Monika Kornberger: Duesberg, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
  2. ↑ a b c Uwe Mauch: July 12th: Happy days in the last days of mankind (with illustration by August Duesberg). In: Kurier , July 12, 2014. On: kurier.at
  3. ↑ Manfred Wagner: European cultural history - lived, thought, conveyed . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2009. ISBN 978-3-205-77754-0 , p. 684.
  4. ↑ Baumgarten, Baumgartner, Anna von . On: sophie-drinker-institut.de
  5. ↑ Marianne Nigg: Biographies of Austrian poets and writers. A contribution to German literature in Austria . Korneuburg 1893.
  6. ↑ a b Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 627.
  7. ^ A b c August Duesberg in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Duesberg, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1922
Place of death Vienna