Carl Filtsch

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Carl Filtsch, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1844
Carl Filtsch's tomb

Carl Filtsch (also Filtsch Károly ; born May 28, 1830 in Mühlbach , Austrian Empire , † May 11, 1845 in Venice ) was a pianist and composer .

Life

Filtsch belonged to the ethnic group of the Transylvanian Saxons . At the age of three he received piano lessons from his father Joseph Filtsch, a Protestant pastor and poet from Mühlbach in Transylvania . In 1837 he came to Vienna for further training (among others with Friedrich Wieck ) under the careful care of Countess Jeannette von Bánffy . Introduced at court, he was the musician and playmate of the later Emperor Franz Joseph of the same age . In February 1841 he made his debut in the former Wiener Musikverein , where people admired the “high degree of perfection” and his “skill in tone, performance, expression, power and shading” ( Moritz Gottlieb Saphir ). Concert tours and associated triumphant successes from Budapest to Sibiu followed.

In December 1842 he became Frédéric Chopin's favorite student in Paris. Franz Liszt taught him for a while on behalf of Chopin. Later the following saying came down from him: "When the little one goes on a trip, I close the booth". Chopin himself said after the performance of one of his piano concerts: “My God, what a child! No one has ever understood me like that… ”All of the major music magazines in Vienna, Paris and London received exuberant reviews.

But soon planned tours across Europe had to be canceled: Filtsch fell ill with tuberculosis and the doctors prescribed seaside resorts in Venice. After a short recovery and a last summer stay in Transylvania and Vienna, he returned to Venice. There he succumbed to his incurable disease shortly before his fifteenth birthday. His marble tomb is now in the Venetian cemetery of San Michele .

Filtsch, who began to improvise on the piano at an early age, left eight compositions of his own, some of which were first published in London in 1843. He also composed a piano concerto that was long thought lost and was only recently found again. Despite the recognizable influences of his teachers, his unique musical precocity and talent is reflected in his works.

Traditional works

  • Choral (1839)
  • Romance Without Words (1840)
  • Barcarole
  • mazurka
  • Impromptu in G flat major op.1
  • Impromptu in B flat minor (1843)
  • Introduction and Variations op.2
  • Concert piece for piano and large orchestra in B minor
  • Overture in D major
  • Farewell to Venice (Adieu)
  • Andante and Nocturne, Op. 1 No. 1 and Op. 1 No. 2
  • Six little preludes
  • Prelude and Fugue
  • Etude heroique
  • Cadenza for Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C minor
  • Etude in F major op.8
  • Etude in C minor op.10

Events

Since 1995 the piano and composition competition "Carl Filtsch Festival" has been held in Sibiu / Hermannstadt, Romania.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Teutsch: Article Filtsch . In: Lexikon der Siebenbürger Sachsen, Thaur bei Innsbruck 1993, p. 125f.
  2. ↑ Wiener Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung, Vol. 3, p. 579
  3. ^ Wilhelm von Lenz , The great pianoforte virtuosos of our time from personal acquaintance. Liszt. - Chopin - Tausig. - Henselt , Berlin: Behr 1872, p. 36
  4. ↑ cf. Peter Szaunig: Ten years of the Carl Filtsch Festival 1995–2005. Johannis Reeg Verlag, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-937320-32-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Filtsch, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Filtsch, Karóly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION old Austrian pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Sebeș , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1845
Place of death Venice