Petri Quartet

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The Petri Quartet was a string quartet that existed from 1889 to 1914 and was based in Dresden . It was named after the Primarius Henri Petri , concertmaster of the Dresden court orchestra . After Petri's death, Gustav Havemann took over the leadership and the quartet was renamed the Dresden String Quartet of the Royal Chapel .

The musicologist Paul Nettl counted the Petri Quartet among the most famous quartet associations of the 19th century. It particularly cultivated the music of Ludwig van Beethoven , but also works from the Romantic and Modern periods. In 1909 it made a guest appearance in the Beethoven Hall at the Chamber Music Festival in Bonn. In the same year the ensemble was on the occasion of the XXXIII. Tonkünstlerfest of the Allgemeine Deutsche Musikverein in Dresden intended for the performance of the 1st String Quartet, Op. 7 by Arnold Schönberg . However, it rejected the piece as unplayable and the Rosé Quartet , which had already been responsible for the premiere, had to perform the performance.

The painter Robert Sterl made an oil painting in 1907, on which the musicians Petri, Warwas, Spitzner and Wille are represented. This was in the holdings of the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden until it was lost in the war and was shown at the Great Art Exhibition in 1908. The original negative (black and white) is in the German Photo Library of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library .

Members

  • 1st violin: Henri Petri (1889–1914)
  • 2nd violin: Max Lewinger (1889–1899), Egon Petri (1899–1901), Theodor Bauer (1901–1911) and Erdmann Warwas (1911–1914)
  • Viola: Theodor Bauer (1889–1899), Bernhard Unkenstein (1899–1901) and Alfred Spitzner (1901–1914)
  • Violoncello: Georg Wille (1889–1914)

literature

  • Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 180.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GI: From Dresden's musical life . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , 1916, vol. 83, p. 167 f.
  2. ^ Paul Nettl: Reproducing Art . In: Guido Adler (ed.): Handbuch der Musikgeschichte . Volume 2: With many musical examples and illustrations on the history of musical notation, musical instruments, operas and reproductions of autographs . Unchanged reprint of the second, completely revised and heavily supplemented edition from 1930, Severus Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86347-534-5 , pp. 1201–1224, here: p. 1207.
  3. ↑ Georg Kaiser: Henry Petri † . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , 1914, vol. 81, p. 249 f.
  4. ^ Photograph of the Rumpff & Co studio in the digital archive of the Beethoven House in Bonn, katalog.beethoven.de, accessed on January 27, 2019.
  5. ^ Matthias Herrmann : Schönberg - Berg - Webern and Dresden . In: Matthias Herrmann, Hanns-Werner Heister (Ed.): Dresden and advanced music in the 20th century. Report on the colloquium organized by the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music and the Institute for Musicology at the "Carl Maria von Weber" Academy of Music in Dresden . Part 1: 1900–1933 (= Music in Dresden . Vol. 4). Laber, Laaber 1999, pp. 297-348, here: p. 297.
  6. ^ Sterl, Robert: Quartett, 1907 , deutschefotothek.de, accessed on January 27, 2019.