Bram Eldering

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Bram Eldering around 1895

Abraham "Bram" Eldering (born July 8, 1865 in Groningen , † June 17, 1943 in Cologne ) was a violinist and university professor .

Life

Bram (abbreviation of Abraham ) Eldering studied violin with Jenő Hubay at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels . After his appointment to the Royal Hungarian Music Academy in Budapest , he followed his teacher in 1886. He played in Hubay's string quartet with Victor von Herzfeld and David Popper . In 1888 he moved to Berlin to continue his studies with Joseph Joachim .

In 1893 he became concertmaster of the Philharmonic Orchestra in Berlin under Hans von Bülow .

In 1894, after Bülows' death, he switched to the Meiningen court orchestra as concertmaster , of which he was a member until 1899. At the invitation of the Weyermann family of industrialists, he and other members of the orchestra took part in an intimate chamber music festival at Hagerhof Palace near Honnef at Whitsun 1896 and performed Robert Schumann's string quartet in A major and Johannes Brahms ' piano quintet in F minor - with Brahms on Piano - with.

In 1899 he was appointed lecturer at the Amsterdam Conservatory . From 1903 he taught as a professor at the Cologne Conservatory . One of his students was Theo Giesen, who later became the first concertmaster of the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne, then later a founding member and first concertmaster of the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra (KRSO), later known as the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne .

The Bram Eldering Quartet in the Beethovenhaus Bonn

He also became first violinist in the Gürzenich Quartet founded by Gustav Hollaender in 1888 , to which Carl Körner , Josef Schwartz and Friedrich Grützmacher the Younger also belonged. The ensemble achieved world fame as the Bram Eldering Quartet . After the death of Friedrich Grützmacher, Emanuel Feuermann took over the cello part in 1919 .

In addition to his Amsterdam successor Carl Flesch , with whom he was in correspondence, he was one of the formative violin teachers of his time. His students included Ernst Lothar von Knorr , Adolf Busch , Hans-Ludwig Schilling , Max Strub , Siegfried Borries , Hans Raderschatt , Quirin Rische and Wilhelm Stross .

With his wife Berrendine Knaap he had a son of the same name, born in Meiningen in 1899, who became a gynecologist.

Eldering died at the age of 77 on June 17, 1943 in a bomb attack on his home in Cologne-Riehl .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 696 from June 21, 1943, registry office Cologne Nippes. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Eldering, Bram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eldering, Abraham (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch violinist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Groningen
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1943
Place of death Cologne