Bernhard Stavenhagen
Bernhard Stavenhagen (born November 24, 1862 in Greiz ; † December 25, 1914 in Geneva ) was a German composer and pianist.
Life
His sister was the writer Hildegard Neuffer-Stavenhagen (1866-1939), who was married to the actor and theater director Dagobert Neuffer .
Stavenhagen received his first piano lessons from Theodor Kullak and then studied piano with Ernst Rudorff and music theory and composition with Friedrich Kiel . In 1879 he was awarded the Mendelssohn Prize for his Piano Concerto in C major . In 1885 Stavenhagen went to Weimar to study with Franz Liszt and to accompany him to Rome, Budapest, Paris, London and Bayreuth. He is considered Liszt's last and most important student and also gave his funeral oration in 1886. According to contemporaries, his game was closest to that of his teacher Liszt.
In the following ten years he made concert tours through Europe and North America. In 1890 he was appointed court pianist to the Grand Duke of Saxony-Weimar, and in 1894 court conductor. In July 1890, in Weimar, he married Agnes Denninghoff , a soprano at the Weimar Court Theater . In 1898 he became Kapellmeister at the Munich court theater , in 1899 royal court conductor. From 1901 to 1904 he was director of the Academy of Music .
In 1907 he moved to Geneva , where he led the piano master classes at the Conservatory until 1914 . His successor was José Vianna da Motta .
As the conductor of the subscription concerts, he gave the world premieres of numerous works a. a. by Richard Strauss , Hans Pfitzner , Gustav Mahler , Arnold Schönberg , Claude Debussy , Maurice Ravel , Gabriel Fauré , Sergei Tanejew , Mili Balakirew and Ernest Bloch for the performance. He was considered an advocate of contemporary music.
His piano playing has been preserved for posterity with the help of the Welte Mignon process.
His body was buried in Weimar.
In 1980 the music school (now Kreismusikschule) Greiz was named after Stavenhagen.
Works
- Piano Concerto in C major , 1879
- Piano concerto in A major
- Piano Concerto in B minor , Op. 4 1893
- Three orchestral songs: fairy tale song, serenade, the heavy evening
- Suleika, scene for soprano with orchestra
Piano pieces:
- op. 2: Presto, Pastorale and Caprice
- op. 5: Capriccio, Intermezzo and Menuetto scherzando
- op. 10: Notturno, Mazurka and Gavotte-Caprice
literature
- Gerhard Kohlweyer - Agnes Stavenhagen, Weimar prima donna between Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss . Weimarer Taschenbuchverlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-937939-01-8
- Tilly Fleischmann - Tradition and Craft in Piano-Playing . Caryfort Press, Dublin 2014, ISBN 978-1-909325-52-4 (Fleischmann was a student in Stavenhagen from 1901–1904 and describes in her book what she learned from him and Berthold Kellermann about the Liszt tradition)
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernhard Stavenhagen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Bernhard Stavenhagen in the International Music Score Library Project
- Canton of Geneva - historical.
Individual evidence
Hugo Riemann: Musik-Lexikon 11th edition. Edited by Alfred Einstein. M. Hesse publishing house, Berlin 1929
- ^ Gerhard Kohlweyer - Agnes Stavenhagen, Weimar Primadonna between Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss , page 109, Weimarer Taschenbuchverlag 2007
- ^ University of Music and Theater Munich in the Bavarian Historical Lexicon
- ↑ Book by the Irish student Tilly Fleischmann from Stavenhagen ( Memento from January 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stavenhagen, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greiz |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1914 |
| Place of death | Geneva |