Emanuel Feuermann
Emanuel Feuermann (born November 22, 1902 in Kolomea , Austria-Hungary , † May 25, 1942 in New York City ) was an Austro-German cellist .
Life
According to legend, when he was 10 years old, Emanuel Feuermann decided to become a cellist after Pablo Casals performed Joseph Haydn's Concerto in D major in Vienna, although his father, who was also a musician, would have liked to see him play the violin. At the age of 11, Emanuel performed Johannes Brahms ' double concerto for violin and violoncello with the Vienna Philharmonic together with his brother Siegmund, who was two years older than him and was celebrated as a child prodigy on the violin .
At the age of 15 he was a student of Julius Klengel in Leipzig and two years later he - as the youngest professor of all time - recommended him to a professorship at the Cologne University of Music . Here he also became principal cellist in the Gürzenich Orchestra and cellist in the Bram Eldering Quartet. However, he soon gave up these functions in favor of extensive concert activities across Europe.
In 1929 he was appointed the youngest professor at the Berlin Music Academy. Here he played together with Paul Hindemith and the violinist Josef Wolfsthal and later Szymon Goldberg string trio. On sonata evenings he preferred to be accompanied by his youngest sister Sophie.
On April 8, 1933 he was given leave of absence from his professorship because of his Jewish descent and, like Goldberg and Hindemith later, emigrated to London. After touring Japan and New York, he returned to Europe and married Eva Reifenberg in 1935. At the world premiere of Arnold Schönberg's Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in D major, based on the Concerto per Clavicembalo by Matthias Georg Monn , he played the solo part under Thomas Beecham .
After a stay in Switzerland, he applied for American citizenship in 1938. In New York he performed 13 cello concerts over four evenings, which was celebrated as the one-man revolution . But there was also a break with Paul Hindemith because he had his cello concerto premiered by Gregor Piatigorsky .
On May 25, 1942, Emanuel Feuermann died in New York at the age of 39 at the height of his career as a result of a medical malpractice of an intestinal disease. Rudolf Serkin , Artur Schnabel , Arturo Toscanini , Eugene Ormandy , Mischa Elman and Bronisław Huberman carried the coffin .
Feuermann played a Domenico Montagnana cello .
In his honor, the Emanuel Feuermann Competition for Violoncello was launched in 2002 on the occasion of his 100th birthday. This takes place every four years in Berlin, most recently on November 21, 2019 at the UdK in Berlin as a pre-concert for the Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann from November 16 to 22, 2020 in cooperation with the Kronberg Academy .
Quotes about Emanuel Feuermann
- " Talent of the century" ( Jascha Heifetz )
- "The greatest cellist of all time" ( Arthur Rubinstein )
literature
- Annette Morreau: Emanuel Feuermann, Yale University Press, November 2002, ISBN 978-0-3000-9684-2
- Harald Eggebrecht : There is no bigger one. Emanuel Feuermann. In: Great Cellists. Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-04669-5 , pp. 362-378.
Web links
- Works by and about Emanuel Feuermann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Feuermann plays Dvorak and Popper , Youtube
- The one-man revolution , Tagesspiegel
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feuermann, Emanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German cellist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolomea , Galicia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1942 |
| Place of death | New York City |