Claude Starck

Claude Starck (born October 24, 1928 in Strasbourg ) is a Swiss cellist .

Life

Claude Starck was shaped by the introduction to music that his father, the organist Walther Starck, gave him in the first years of teaching. He started playing the cello when he was four years old. The method of early musical education of his father, outlined in the book Musique d'abord , is based on the principle of making music by ear.

In 1943 Starck won the cello competition in Baden-Alsace. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Paul Bazelaire , Pierre Fournier and Paul Tortelier , where he won first prize in 1951. 1957 followed the medal at the Concours de Genève .

He was first solo cellist of the Festival Strings Lucerne , then from 1960 to 1993 he was the first solo cellist of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra , and until 1976 a member of the Tonhalle Quartet. In addition to his lively concert activity, he led around 100 students in the concert training class to a teaching or concert diploma in his professorate at the Zurich University of Music between 1963 and 1996.

Claude Starck has contributed to over 20 recordings. When he was preparing to record all of Antonio Vivaldi's cello sonatas , he sought the originals of these works in Italy . Three previously undiscovered sonatas came to light, which he then recorded and published for the first time in the recording of Tudor Records .

Claude Starck is married to Therese Starck (née Kaempf) and has two sons, Christophe and Dominique Starck . They continue the music lessons according to the grandfather's method.

Discography (selection)

• Antonio Vivaldi : Complete Sonatas for Violoncello and Basso continuo. (with Isolde Ahlgrimm ). 2 LPs. Tudor, Zurich 1975.
• Baroque sonatas (with Dominique Starck , guitar), DNDS 1031.
• Camille Saint-Saëns : Concerto No. 1 in A minor / Sonata No. 1 in C minor. Claves, Thun 1976.
• Johann Sebastian Bach : The 3 sonatas for violoncello and harpsichord obbligato. (with Jörg Ewald Dähler ). Claves, Thun 1976.
• Joseph Haydn : Three Trios. (with Jörg Ewald Dähler and Peter-Lukas Graf ). Claves, Thun 1976.
• Frédéric Chopin / Edvard Grieg : Sonata op.65 in G minor / Sonata op.36 in A minor. (with Ricardo Requejo). Claves, Thun 1977.
• Carl Stamitz : Cello Concerts. (Conductor: Paul Angerer ). Claves, Thun 1981.
• Ernst von Dohnányi : Sonata in B flat minor, op. 8. (with Eke Méndez). Jecklin, Zurich 1982.
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy : The works for violoncello and piano. (with Christoph Eschenbach ). Claves, Thun 1986.

literature

• Julius Bächi: Famous Cellists. Portraits of master cellists from Boccherini to the present day. Swiss cellists of today. 4th edition. Atlantis, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-254-00121-4 .

Web links

• Works by Claude Starck in the catalog of the German National Library