Bernhard Dessau

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Professor Bernhard Dessau 1917

Bernhard Berend Moses Dessau (pseudonym: B. Dessoux ; born March 1, 1861 in Hamburg ; † April 28, 1923 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German violinist and composer .

Life

Bernhard Dessau was the son of Chasan Moses Berend Dessau (1821–1881) and his wife Eva, nee. Müller (1825–1877) and had six siblings. His youngest brother was the cigar manufacturer Sally Dessau (1849–1923).

Bernhard Dessau studied violin under Henry Schradieck in Hamburg and Leipzig and under Joseph Joachim and Henryk Wieniawski in Berlin .

Dessau worked as a concertmaster in Görlitz , Königsberg , Brno , Prague , Rotterdam and other cities. In 1898 he became concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.

Dessau taught at the Stern Conservatory and became a professor in 1906. Dessau also appeared as a soloist and was a member of the well-known Berlin trio together with Moritz Mayer-Mahr and Heinrich Grünfeld . He gave violin and piano lessons to the student Marlene Dietrich . He owned a Stradivarius violin ( Nicola Gagliano Filius Alexandri fecit. Naples. 1738 ). He had given his first violin to his nephew Paul Dessau in 1900 . Jean Paul Ertel dedicated his Hebraikon string quartet (on Hebrew themes) to Bernhard Dessau in 1912 .

Dessau composed numerous pieces for violin, in particular an old-style concert op.55.

Dessau married the actress Therese Leeder (1857–1941) in 1885. In 1898 he married Elise Sophie Müller (1873–1935), with whom he had daughters Gertrud (1899–1976) and Lotte (1902–1983). Both daughters and their husbands emigrated to England after Hitler came to power .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dessau, Bernhard . In: Theodore Baker : Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians . G. Schirmer, Boston 1919. (accessed February 16, 2016).
  2. ^ Tessi Leeder in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna