Edmund Singer (violinist)
Edmund Singer ( Hungarian Ödön Singer ; born October 14, 1831 in Tata , Hungary , † January 23, 1912 in Stuttgart ) was a Hungarian violinist and violin teacher.
Life
He first studied at the Budapest Conservatory with Ellinger. Then he went to Vienna and studied with J. Böhm . Singer made great concert tours through Europe, which produced a sensational success. On the recommendation of Franz Liszt , he became court concertmaster in Weimar in 1854. In 1861 he became court concertmaster in Stuttgart, where he was also a teacher at the conservatory. Martin Collin was a student of Singer . Singer founded the Stuttgart Tonkünstlerverein, and he made great contributions to the musical life in the Swabian capital.
Works
- Caprices, Etudes, Fantasies for violin
- Large theoretical practical violin school in 2 volumes (with Max Seifriz )
literature
- Christian Fastl: Singer, Edmund (Ödön). In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
- Daniel Jütte: Singer, Edmund, origin. Ödön Singer. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 15 (Schoof - Stranz). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1135-7 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- Daniel Jütte, Anat Feinberg: "Un des meilleurs violons d'Allemagne". The violin virtuoso Edmund Singer - a contribution to the German-Jewish music history of the 19th century. In: Marion A. Kaplan, Beate Meyer (Ed.): Jüdische Welten. Jews in Germany from the 18th Century to the Present. Festschrift for Monika Richarz (= Hamburg contributions to the history of the German Jews; 27). Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-888-4 , pp. 177–206 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- Hermann Mendel, August Reissmann: Musical Conversations Lexicon. Volume 9 (S - Stradivari). Oppenheim, Berlin 1878, p. 266 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Hans Morgenstern: Jewish Biographical Lexicon. A collection of important personalities of Jewish origin from 1800 onwards . 2nd edition. Vienna / Berlin / Münster, LIT 2011, ISBN 978-3-7000-0703-6 .
- Hubert Reitterer: Singer, Edmund. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 293.
- Joseph Son: Singer, Edmund. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Volume 11, Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906, p. 384 .
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Singer, Edmund . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 35th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1877, pp. 4–6 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Works by and about Edmund Singer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Edmund Singer sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl von Stockmayer: Seifriz, Max . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 310-313.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Singer, Edmund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Singer, Ödön (huS) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian violinist and violin teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tata , Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1912 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |