Benar Heifetz

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Benar Heifetz (born November 29 . Jul / 11. December  1899 greg. In Mogilev , Russia , † 8. April 1974 in Manhasset , New York ) was a Russian-American cellist .

family

Heifetz was born in a small town with an above-average number of musically gifted people. For example, Modest Altschuler , the founder of the Russian Symphony in New York , and the composer Irving Berlin come from Mogilev.

Heifetz married the pianist and music teacher Olga Wolfsthal , the wife of the violinist and Carl Flesch student Josef Wolfsthal, who died very early . From this marriage she brought a young daughter into her third marriage. Before Wolfsthal, she was married to George Szell .

The family name is - in different spellings - very widespread, little or nothing is documented about family relationships. There are always sites in which a relationship to other Heifetz 'is rumored. Because of the celebrity of the violinist Jascha Heifetz, for example, many have claimed a direct or indirect relationship in the past, but this has not been proven in any known case.

Education

Benar Heifetz studied with Julius Klengel at the Conservatory in Leipzig , where he was one of his outstanding students together with Emanuel Feuermann and Gregor Piatigorsky . Benar Heifetz was the best in Klengel's cello class.

Ensembles

Between 1927 and 1939 he played within the first Kolisch Quartet , which was founded in 1921 or 1922 as a Viennese string quartet . The line-up Rudolf Kolisch (first violin), Felix Khuner (second violin) and Eugen Lehner (br), focused on new music , Kolisch is the brother-in-law of Arnold Schönberg . For the 1939/40 season Heifetz was chief cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra . In November 1939, Eugene Ormandy appointed Samuel Mayes as another vice-chief cellist. After the end of the 1942/43 season, Heifetz moved to the NBC Symphony Orchestra , which was conducted by Arturo Toscanini . From 1943 to the end of the Toscanini era in 1954, the first violas were occupied by Carlton Cooley and Milton Katims , while the first cellos were occupied by Frank Miller and Benar Heifetz.

On April 7, 1930, Heifetz also played with the Arnold Schönberg-affiliated Pierrot lunaire ensemble in Vienna , with Erwin Stein (cond), Erika Stiedry-Wagner (voc), Rudolf Kolisch (left, right), Viktor Polatschek (left), Joachim Stutschewsky (clo), Franz Wangler (fl, picc) and Eduard Steuermann (p) completed a concert tour in the Central Hall Westminster .

A prominent example of Heifetz's cello performance is the concert with Camille Saint-Saëns ' Carnival of the Animals , which was recorded on November 27, 1939.

During the 1940s Heifetz played with the Budapest String Quartet . At least in the second half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, he performed with the Balsam-Kroll-Heifetz Trio .

Jules Eskin was a student of Benar Heifetz . Heifetz died at the age of 74. While his date of birth seems indisputable, the same is not true of his date of death. There are differing information, also in otherwise reputable sources.

Web links

Commons : Benar Heifetz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Maurer Zenck:  Benar Heifetz in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM), as of July 21, 2017, accessed on August 5, 2019
  2. ↑ Benar Heifetz 1899–1974 ( memento of March 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), on: contraclassics.com, accessed on April 21, 2016
  3. ^ Theodor W. Adorno / Alban Berg: Correspondence 1925–1932 . John Wiley & Sons. New York City 2014. ISBN 978-0-7456-9496-2 .
  4. ↑ Markus Grassl / Reinhard Kapp: The teaching of musical performance in the Vienna School: Negotiations of the International Colloquium Vienna 1995 . Böhlau. Vienna 2002. ISBN 978-3205988915 . P. 171.
  5. ^ Institute for Contemporary History Munich (eds.) / Werner Röder / Herbert A. Strauss : Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Emigration after 1933 . International biographical dictionary of Central European emigrés 1933–1945. 3 vols. De Gruyter. Berlin 1980. ISBN 978-3598100871 .
  6. ↑ Jennifer Ruth Doctor: The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes . Cambridge University Press. Cambridge 1999. ISBN 978-0521661171 .
  7. ↑ Thomas Brezinka: Erwin Stein. A musician in Vienna and London . Böhlau. Vienna 2005. ISBN 978-3205773849 .
  8. ↑ Jules Eskin (interview) , on: opuscello.com, accessed April 21, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Heifetz, Benar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-American cellist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Mogilev , Russia
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1974
Place of death Manhasset , New York