August Heinrich Bruinier

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August Heinrich Bruinier (born May 7, 1897 in Zweibrücken , † April 24, 1970 in Munich ) was a German violinist and violin teacher of Dutch descent.

Life

Bruinier was born as the son of the Dutch businessman Jan Berend Hendrik Bruinier (1863–1934) and his wife Sophie Wagner (* 1867), who lives in Germany. His parents were very interested in music and two of his five siblings also became musicians, Ansco and Franz Bruinier . His uncle was the Germanist Johannes Weijgardus Bruinier (1867–1939).

Bruinier attended the secondary school in Biebrich from 1904 to 1907 and the upper secondary school in Berlin-Steglitz from 1907 to 1913 .

His musical training began from 1912 to 1914 with the violinist Adalbert Gülzow . From 1914 to 1917 he attended the Berlin University of Music . From 1917 to 1918 he worked as a violinist in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra . From 1918 to 1920 he continued his training at the university with Karl Klingler , which he completed privately with Willy Hess and Gabriele Wietrowetz (* 1866 † 1937) from 1920 to 1921 .

From 1923 to 1925 he was concertmaster of the Academic Orchestra Berlin and was already giving violin lessons. In the Society for Modern Music Performances in Berlin, which Othmar Steinbauer and Max Deutsch had initiated - following the example of the Vienna Association for Private Musical Performances - he was the first violinist of the house quartet from 1922 to 1923. Bruinier was a member of the Old German Chamber Quartet (with Bruno Henze ). From 1928 to 1937 Bruinier worked as concertmaster for the Tobis Film Company , and from 1937 he held the same position at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz . From 1943 to 1963 he taught violin at the Braunschweig State Music School . From 1951 to 1961 he held summer chamber music courses for the Jeunesses musicales at Weikersheim Castle . From 1963 he lived in Munich.

Bruinier was married to Hertha Steinborn and had one child.

Chamber music ensembles

  • Bruiner Brothers : August performed as a duo with his brother, the pianist Franz .
  • Bruinier Trio : “At that time I had a piano trio with my brothers Franz and Julius . We were the first trio to play in the Rundfunkhaus on Potsdamer Strasse. [...] With the death of my brother Franz it was all over and I devoted myself entirely to the quartet. "
  • Bruinier Quartet : In 1922 the musicians of the Bruinier Quartet got together. Members were, in addition to the Primarius (1st violinist) Bruinier, initially Marg. Schmidt-Laipa, later Fritz Wehmeyer (1906–1973) (2nd violin), on the viola from 1927 to 1937 Karla Höcker , followed by Karl Reitz and on Violoncello Hans Chemin-Petit , Paul Blumenfeld (1901–2001) (1929–1932) and Carl Dechert (* 1906 †?). In 1944 the quartet had to be dissolved due to the war, and in 1949 Bruinier founded a new quartet.

In 1932 the quartet held a competition. The winner was a one-movement string quartet by Heinz Pauels .

Works

Audio documents

Around 1925 recordings with his brother Franz for the department store label Star-Record . With the Bruinier Quartet in 1928 Christmas carols on Tri-Ergon , and finally in January 1931 individual movements from quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert for ultraphone . In addition, unpublished radio recordings; Particularly noteworthy here are the recordings made by Königsberger Rundfunk in 1933, for which the Bruinier Quartet recorded the entire quartet literature from Dittersdorf to modern times.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954 , whose information is based on information provided by the musicians, gives 1895 as the year of birth, but all other sources 1897; also the contemporary genealogical yearbook Nederland's Patriciaat , Volume 13 (1923), p. 24 ( digitized version ). http: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dnederlandspatric13epen~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D24~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D
  2. ↑ a b Karla Höcker: A life for music: August Heinrich Bruinier died in Munich , in: Neue Musikzeitung , Regensburg, No. 3/1970, p. 16
  3. ↑ Hertha Bruinier [his widow]: CV of August Heinrich Bruinier May 7, 1897– April 24, 1970
  4. ↑ Horst Bergmeier, Rainer Lotz : The Bruinier family . In: Fox on 78 , issue 12, summer 1993, ISSN  0948-0412 .
  5. ↑ Karla Höcker: House concerts in Berlin . Rembrandt, Berlin 1970, p. 71, and AOB - Academic Orchestra Berlin 1908 - 2008
  6. ↑ Höcker, House Concerts in Berlin , p. 98
  7. ^ The guitar 100 years ago , program from April 15, 1920 in the Künstlerhaus, Bellevuestrasse 3 [Berlin-Tiergarten]
  8. ↑ The guitar 100 years ago , program from January 10, 1921 in the Harmoniumsaal, Steglitzer Straße 35 [today: Pohlstraße, Berlin-Tiergarten]
  9. ↑ Höcker, House Concerts in Berlin , p. 107
  10. ↑ on Blumenfeld see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blumenfeld/Paul%20Blumenfeld.htm
personal data
SURNAME Bruinier, August Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and violin teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1970
Place of death Munich