Carl Heissler

Carl Heissler

Carl Heissler, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1866

Carl Heissler (born January 18, 1823 in Vienna ; † November 13, 1878 there ) was an Austrian violinist and violist .

Life

Carl Heissler received his training from Georg Hellmesberger senior , Matthias Durst and Joseph Böhm at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna . In 1841 he entered the service of the court opera orchestra and from 1843 also played in the Vienna court music band , first as a substitute, and from 1860 as a full member. From 1849 he played second violin in the Leopold Jansas quartet . Josef Hellmesberger, a son of his professor, also founded a quartet for which he recruited Jansa's musicians, including Carl Heissler. He named the new Ensemble Hellmesberger Quartet .

Heissler taught at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde; among his students were Ernst Reiterer , Julius Winkler , Arnold Rosé , Hans Wessely , Eugen Grünberg , Hans Richter and Franz Schalk . In 1869 he became the first director of the orchestra of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna . His successor was Anton Rubinstein in 1871 , who was replaced by Johannes Brahms the following year .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Heissler, Karl . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 8th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1862, p. 238 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Ernst Tittel: The Vienna University of Music. From the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music to the State Academy for Music and Performing Arts. Lafite, Vienna 1967.
• Austrian music lexicon . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 (Volume 2, G-Kl).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters, Selected and annotated by Styra Avins . Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 1997, ISBN 0-19-816234-0 , p. 419, footnote.