Emil Telmanyi

Emil Telmanyi

Emil Telmányi demonstrated his round arch ("Vega" Bachbogen) to Albert Schweitzer in 1954

Emil Telmányi (born June 22, 1892 in Arad , † June 12, 1988 in Holte , Denmark ) was a Hungarian violinist and conductor.

Telmányi made his debut as a violinist at the age of ten. He studied violin and conducting with Jenő Hubay in Budapest and composition at the Music Academy. From 1911 he toured Europe as a violin virtuoso and came to Copenhagen for the first time in 1912. There he married Anne Marie Nielsen in 1918, a daughter of the composer Carl Nielsen and the sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen , and made his debut as a conductor in 1919.

1925-26 he was the conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. He later founded his own chamber orchestra. In 1936 he married the pianist Annette Schiøler , with whom he made several recordings. Telmányi strongly advocated Nielsen's work. He played world premieres of his violin works with musicians such as Ernst von Dohnányi and Victor Schiøler and conducted the world premiere of his clarinet concerto. From 1940 to 1969 he taught at the Aarhus Music Academy .

After Telmányi got to know the violinist and round arch player Rolph Schroeder , he developed his own round arch with the bow maker Knud Vestergard , the so-called Vega-Bachbogen ( Vega after the manufacturer Vestergard ). This violin bow also enables polyphonic chords to be played on the violin and was also used by other soloists such as Tossi Spiwakowski . In 1954 Telmányi recorded the solo sonatas and partitas by Johann Sebastian Bach for violin with the Vega Bachbow . He wrote an article Solving the Problems of Bach's Solo Violin Works , which appeared in 1955 in the Schweizerische Musikzeitung in Zurich.

Web links

• Emil Telmányi at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Recorded in November 1953 and March 1954, DANA CORD, DACO 147.
2. ↑ Printed in: Rudolf Gähler , Der Rundbogen für die Violin - ein Phantom? , Conbrio Verlag, Regensburg 1997, p. 159.