Carl Venth

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Carl Venth (around 1910)

Carl Venth (born February 16, 1860 in Cologne , † January 30, 1938 in San Antonio , Texas ) was an American violinist , composer and conductor of German origin. From 1911 to 1914 he was chief conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra .

Life

Venth was born in 1860 as the son of violinist Carl Venth and his wife Fredericka, b. von Turkowitz, born in Cologne. His father was a student of David and worked as an organist at Cologne Cathedral . At the age of 16 he began to study violin and composition at the Cologne Conservatory (with George Japha , Otto Klauwell and Ferdinand Hiller ). In 1878 he studied with Auguste Dupont and Henryk Wieniawski in Brussels and then became concertmaster at the Flemish Opera House in Brussels. A year later he went on tour in the Netherlands and switched to the Opéra-Comique in Paris as concertmaster .

In 1880 he made his debut with Julie Rivé-King in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1881 he toured the United States. He then became concertmaster at Rudolph Bila's New York concerts . From 1884 to 1888 he worked at the Metropolitan Opera under Leopold Damrosch and Anton Seidl . In Brooklyn he founded a violin school. From 1889 to 1897 he directed the Seidl Orchestra and the Euterpe Orchestral Society. He was also responsible for the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra and the Venth Quartet. In 1899 he married the Norwegian-born Cathinka Finch. In 1906 he was brief concertmaster at the St. Paul Symphony, a year later he returned to New York, where he took care of the Venth Trio.

In 1908 he moved to Texas , where he headed the violin department at Kidd-Key College in Sherman for three years . In 1912 he directed the male choir Frohsinn and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra . He also became the first conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra . In 1914 he took over the direction of the School of Fine Arts at Texas Woman's College in Fort Worth. There he oversaw the choir club and was president (later honorary member) of the Texas State Music Teachers' Association. During World War I , he directed several bands at Camp Bowie and Camp Travis . He was also a band leader in the 36th Infantry Division.

From 1931 to 1938 he headed the music department at Westmoreland College, which was renamed the University of San Antonio in 1937 .

He composed more than 100 pieces.

Lore

Archives about Carl Venth are in the Frances Marion Allen Collection of the Tarrant County Archives in Fort Worth and in the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Venth  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1942 the campus was merged with Trinity University .
personal data
SURNAME Venth, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American violinist, composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1938
Place of death San Antonio , Texas