Claus Adam

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Claus Adam (also: Klaus Adam; born November 5, 1917 in Sumatra , Dutch East Indies ; † July 4, 1983 in New York City , United States ) was an American cellist , music teacher and composer of Austrian origin. He was known as the long-time cellist of the Juilliard String Quartet .

Life

Claus Adam's father was the Austrian ethnologist and photographer Tassilo Adam (1878–1955), who was working in Sumatra at the time of his son's birth. His mother was Johanna Adam geb. Pussy. Claus Adam spent the first years of his life in the Dutch East Indies. At the age of six, his family returned to Austria. Here he received his first music lessons at the Mozarteum in Salzburg . In 1929 his family emigrated to New York, where his father became a curator of oriental art at the Brooklyn Museum . In 1935, Carl Adam received US citizenship. From 1935 to 1938 he received cello lessons from Josef Emont, the first cellist of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra from Belgium . With the Gabrilowitch Memorial Award he won a scholarship from Emanuel Feuermann , where he received lessons from 1938 to 1943 and about whom Adam also wrote the article Emanuel Feuermann: A Tribute 25 years later . He also received lessons from Demetrius Constantine Dounis . He learned to conduct with Léon Barzin . Under his direction he played from 1935 to 1940 with the National Orchestral Association (NOA). From 1938 he played in the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra . From 1940 to 1943 he was Principal Cellist here under Dimitri Mitropoulos . After that he was initially a member of the US Air Force . In the summer of 1942 he had his first composition lessons with Stefan Wolpe . In 1943 he studied for another six months with Wolpe. From 1946 to 1948 he was a cellist with WOR Radio in New York City. He was a founding member of the New Music Quartet whose cellist he was from 1948 to 1955. From 1955 to 1974 he played with the Juilliard String Quartet as the successor to Arthur Winograd (1920-2010). He taught the cello from 1955 to 1983 at the Juilliard School and from 1974 to 1983 at the Mannes College of Music . E also taught classes at the Aspen Music Festival and School . In 1975 he received a Guggenheim grant for composition, which enabled him to stay as composer-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome in the spring of 1976 . Here he worked on his Concerto Variations .

His students included Stephen Kates (1943–2003), Paul Tobias (1946–2014), Robert Colver Kogan (* 1940), Beth Craig, Julie Diesslin, Mark Russell Smith and Joel Krosnick , his successor with the Juilliard String Quartet.

He suffered a stroke on June 9, 1983 , fell into a coma, and died on July 4, 1983 at the age of sixty-five in St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City. On September 28, 1940, he married Eleanor Randolph Bentz. They had a daughter together, Elizabeth Johanna.

Works (selection)

  • String quartet. The work was premiered by the Juilliard String Quartet in New York on May 2, 1948 at an event organized by the International Society for New Music .
  • Piano sonata, composed in 1948. The work was premiered in 1948 by Jacob Maxin, a student of Stefan Wolpe, and recorded in February 1984. The recording was published by CRI under CRL 478.
  • String trio, composed in 1968, published by G. Schirmer
  • Herbstgesänge for soprano and piano after Georg Trakl , 1969
  • Concerto for Cello for violoncello and orchestra, composed in 1973, published by G. Schirmer. It is a commission from the Ford Foundation and was premiered by Stephen Kates and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on October 26, 1973 in Cincinnati , who recorded it with the Louisville Orchestra under Jorge Mester .
  • String Quartet, 1975 The work was commissioned by the Naumburg Foundation for the American String Quartet , consisting of the violinists Mitchell Stern and Laurie Carney, the violist David Avshalomov and the cellist David Geber. The work was recorded by them in April 1983 and published on CRI under CRL 478.
  • Concerto Variations for Orchestra, 1976, published by G. Schirmer, premiered on April 5, 1977. As composer-in-residence, he worked on the work during his stay at the American Academy in Rome. It was created with the support of the National Endowment of the Arts. The work was dedicated to the National Orchestral Association Orchestra , which awarded and premiered it. It reached the finals in the 1978 Pulitzer Prize .
  • Fantasy for violoncello, 1980
  • Toccata and Elegia for string quartet, composed 1983, published by G. Schirmer. They are parts of an unfinished third string quartet

literature

  • John Rockwell: Claus Adam, cellist, Is Dead; Played with Juilliard Quartet . The New York Times July 6, 1983. ISSN 0362-4331 ( online )
  • Randel, Don Michael, ed. (1996). Adam, Claus . The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Cambridge, Mass .: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press. ISBN 0-674-37299-9 . (English)
  • Adam, Claus . In: Brad Hill: American Popular Music: Classical . Infobase Publishing, 2006 ISBN 978-0-8160-6976-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Don Michael Randel: The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music . Harvard University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-674-37299-3 ( google.de [accessed January 8, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h John Rockwell: Claus Adam, cellist, Is Dead; Played with Julliard Quartet . In: The New York Times . July 6, 1983, ISSN  0362-4331 (English, nytimes.com [accessed January 8, 2018]).
  3. ↑ a b Claus Adam . ( prabook.com [accessed January 9, 2018]).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Internet Archive: Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians . New York: Schirmer Books, 2001 ( archive.org [accessed January 8, 2018]).
  5. ↑ a b Adam, Claus . In: Who's who in American Music: Classical . RR Bowker Co., 1985, ISBN 978-0-8352-2074-3 , pp. 2 (English, google.de [accessed on January 9, 2018]).
  6. ^ Annette Morreau: Emanuel Feuermann . Yale University Press, 2008, ISBN 0-300-18393-3 (English, google.de [accessed January 9, 2018]).
  7. ↑ String Player . W. Moennig + Son, Limited ( google.de [accessed on January 9, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Chris A. Costantakos: Demetrius Constantine Dounis: His Method in Teaching the violin . Peter Lang, 1997, ISBN 978-0-8204-3895-5 , pp. 8 ( google.de [accessed on January 9, 2018]).
  9. ↑ a b Tim Janof: Conversation with Joel Krosnick. In: www.cello.org. Internet Cello Society, March 26, 2005, accessed January 9, 2018 .
  10. ^ John K. Sherman: Music and Maestros: The Story of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1952, ISBN 978-0-8166-5869-5 , pp. 303 ( google.de [accessed on January 9, 2018]).
  11. ↑ a b Brad Hill: Adam, Claus . In: Richard Carlin (Ed.): American Popular Music: Classical . Infobase Publishing, 2006, ISBN 978-0-8160-6976-7 , pp. 2 (English, google.de [accessed on January 9, 2018]).
  12. ↑ a b Claus Adam: Claus Adam. (No longer available online.) In: http://grace.evergreen.edu . September 29, 2007, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on January 8, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / grace.evergreen.edu
  13. ↑ Robert Spruytenburg: The Lasalle Quartet: Conversations with Walter Levin . Boydell & Brewer Ltd, Woodbridge 2014, ISBN 978-1-84383-835-7 , pp. 180 ( google.de [accessed on January 9, 2018]).
  14. ↑ a b c d e Claus Adam (1917-1983) . ( newworldrecords.org [PDF]).
  15. ↑ BETH CRAIG. Berkshire Music School, accessed January 9, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Julie Diesslin | Member Directory . In: Suzuki Association of the Americas . ( suzukiassociation.org [accessed January 9, 2018]).
  17. ^ Music Director - Quad City Symphony Orchestra. (No longer available online.) In: qcso.org. Quad City Symphony Orchestra, archived from the original on June 21, 2017 ; accessed on January 9, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / qcso.org
  18. ↑ a b Tim Janof: Conversation with Stephen Kates. In: www.cello.org. Internet Cello Society, January 9, 2002, accessed January 9, 2018 .
  19. ↑ a b Music of Claus Adam. In: dramonline.org. DRAM, accessed January 9, 2018 .
  20. ^ Claus Adam - String Trio (1968) - Music Sales Classical. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
  21. ^ Claus Adam - Concerto for Cello (1973) - Music Sales Classical. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
  22. ^ Ford Foundation scores. In: archives.nypl.org. Retrieved January 9, 2018 .
  23. ^ Claus Adam - Concerto Variations (1976) - Music Sales Classical. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
  24. ^ Martin Brody: Music and Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome . Boydell & Brewer, 2014, ISBN 978-1-58046-245-7 ( google.de [accessed January 9, 2018]).
  25. ^ Report of the 1978 Pulitzer Music Jury . In: Heinz Dietrich Fischer (Ed.): The Pulitzer Prize Winners for Music: Composer Biographies, Premiere Programs and Jury Reports . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-59608-1 , p. 158 New York / Oxford / Vienna (English, google.de [accessed January 9, 2018]).
  26. ^ Claus Adam - Toccata And Elegia (1983) - Music Sales Classical. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Adam, Claus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adam, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cellist , music teacher and composer of Austrian origin
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Sumatra , Dutch East Indies
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1983
Place of death New York City , United States