August Winding

August Winding

August Henrik Winding (born March 24, 1835 in Tårs on Lolland , † June 16, 1899 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish pianist , piano teacher and composer .

biography

August Winding was born in Tårs on Lolland. His father, Anders Frederik, was a pastor, played the piano very well and published several collections of folk songs. He received the earliest musical instruction from his son. August's three brothers were also highly musical, above all Peder Buonventura, who, despite his early death at the age of 16, left behind some piano works. In 1847, at the age of twelve, the parents sent their son to Copenhagen for further training, where he was accepted into the home of the musician family Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann . There, Niels Wilhelm Gade , his later brother-in-law, taught him the subjects of composition and theory. He took piano lessons from the Danish court pianist Carl Reinecke , and later from Anton Rée (1820–1886). and Wilhelm Holm. After his concert debut in Copenhagen in 1851, he quickly became the most important Danish pianist of his time, making a name for himself in particular as an interpreter of the works of Beethoven and Mozart and writing solo cadenzas for some of their piano concertos. In 1855 Winding et al. a. to Leipzig and Prague, where he perfected his piano and organ playing with Wilhelm Holm, with the Nikolai organist Hermann Schellenberg and with Alexander Dreyschock (1818–1869), who declared him the “most excellent of his previous students”. In 1864 A. Winding married his long-time fiancée Clara Frederike Hartmann (1839–1925). From this marriage the children Ingeborg (1871-1908) and Poul Andreas (1877-1966) emerged. In 1867 Winding was employed as a piano teacher at the newly founded Det Kongelige Danske Music Conservatory . In 1869 he received the DelAnckerske Legat and was able to travel to Leipzig with the prize money. Here his piano quartet op. 17 was performed in the Gewandhaus . On a journey undertaken with his friend Edvard Grieg he met in Rome a. a. with Franz Liszt . In 1872, however, an illness in his arm forced him to interrupt his concert and teaching activities for several years. In 1890 he was awarded the Danish Order of Knight Dannebrogorden . In 1892 he received the title of professor and with it a lifelong pension from the Danish state art fund (Livsvarig kunstnerydelse). As early as 1891 Winding was elected to the board of directors of the conservatory, to which he belonged until his sudden death caused by angina pectoris in 1899. Winding is buried on Søllerød Kirkegård .

Works (selection)

• Orchestral works
  • Nordic Overture for Orchestra op.7
  • Concert Overture in D minor op.14
  • Symphony in C minor op.39
• Concert works
  • Piano concerto in A minor op.16
  • Concert Allegro in C minor for piano and orchestra op.29
  • Violin Concerto in A major, op. 11, premiered on March 2, 1867, “Capitol teatret” Copenhagen, soloist: Wilhelmine Neruda
• Chamber music
  • Piano quartet in D major op.17
  • Three Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 19,
  • Two violin sonatas op.5 and op.35
• Piano works
  • Phantasiestücke op.1 (four hands)
  • Travel pictures op.3
  • Country Lige Scener : Skizzer for Piano , Op. 9
  • Studies and moods op.10
  • Genre Pictures op.15
  • Piano pieces in etude form op.18
  • 7 piano pieces from the holiday season op. 22
  • 5 piano pieces in etude form op.24
  • Tonbilder op.25
  • Preludes in all keys, op.26
  • Contraste op. 28
  • Sound images op.25
  • Album leaves op.33
  • Idyller og Legender op. 37
  • Pieces in form of Etudes , Op. 48
  • From the children's world. Piano pieces for little hands, op.59
• Songs
  • op.2, op.14 (based on texts by Klaus Groth )
  • op.3
  • op.4
  • Choir songs (div.)
• additional
  • Piano arrangement, 1st act of the ballet "Fjieldstuen"
  • Pentecost hymn

literature

• Mogens Wenzel Andreasen: Musikalsk byvandring. 34 classic composers i 1800-tallets København. Valby / Copenhagen 2009, pp. 120–124.
• Gustav Hetsch: Det Kongelige Danske Music Conservatory 1867–1917. Copenhagen 1917, p. 43 f. and 95.
• GH [Gustav Hetsch?]: August Winding. In: Illustreret Tidende. Vol. 40, Issue 39, (June 25) 1899, pp. 645 f.
• SAE Hagen: Winding, August Henrik. In: Carl Frederik Bricka (ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon , tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. Vol. 19. Copenhagen 1905, p. 23 f.
• Vilhelm Møller: Danske Kunstner-Portræter fra vore dage. Copenhagen [1883], pp. 113-116.
• Hugo Riemann: History of Music since Beethoven (1800–1900). Berlin / Stuttgart 1901, p. 538.
• Nils Schiørring: Winding, Henrich August. In: Svend Cedergreen Bech (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Leksikon . Vol. 15. 3rd edition, Copenhagen 1984, p. 583 f.
• Nils Schiørring (SAE Hagen): Winding, Henrich August. In: Povl Engelstoft, Svend Dahl (ed.): Dansk biografisk Leksikon . Vol. 26. 2nd edition. Copenhagen 1944, p. 68 f.
• Johannes Volker Schmidt: Foreword. In: August Winding: Symphony in C minor, Op. 39. Score, ed. by Johannes Volker Schmidt. Ries & Erler, Berlin o. J. [2017], ISMN 979-0-013-51459-5 (search in the DNB portal) , p. IV-XI.
• Inger Sørensen (Ed.): Niels W. Gade and hans europæiske kreds. En brevveksling 1836-1891. Vol. 1. Copenhagen 2008, p. 500 f.
• Inger Sørensen (Ed.): JPE Hartmann og hans kreds , ISBN 978-8772897196
• Walter F. Zielke (Ed.): Foreword and critical report in: August Winding, Violin Concerto. Score and piano reduction, AlbisMusic, Brunsbüttel 2020, ISBN 978-0-244-55298-5 .

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by August Winding in the International Music Score Library Project
• Gravestone of August Winding
• Entry in Salmonsen's Konversationslexikon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Inger Sørensen (Ed.): Niels W. Gade and hans europæiske kreds. En brevveksling 1836-1891 . tape 1 . Copenhagen 2008, p. 500 f .
2. ↑ Gerhard Schjelderup, Walter Niemann (ed.): Edvard Grieg. Biography and appreciation of his works . Leipzig 1908, p. 44 f .