Ferdinand Küchler
Ferdinand Küchler (born July 14, 1867 in Gießen ; † October 24, 1937 in Leipzig ) was a German violinist , violist , conductor and composer .
Life
Küchler studied from 1883 to 1888 with Johann Naret-Koning and Hugo Heermann at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main, where he then worked as a violin teacher from 1898 to 1910. He worked as a solo and quartet violist . In 1889 he became a violist in the Basel Orchestra and in 1898 a member of the Heermann Quartet. From 1911 he was director of a private music school in Basel and worked as a conductor. From 1927 to 1936 he taught at the State Conservatory in Leipzig . He wrote textbooks and instructive violin pieces. His 8-volume violin school (Hug-Verlag, Zurich) formed a focus of pedagogical violin literature until the mid-1960s.
Works
- Concertino in G major op.11
- Concertino in D major op.12
- Concertino in D major op.14
- Concertino in D major op.15
literature
- Carl Dahlhaus and Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (eds.): Brockhaus-Riemann-Musiklexikon . 2nd edition, 1989, Volume 2, p. 976.
- Friedrich Frick: Small Biographical Lexicon of Violinists. From the beginning of the violin to the beginning of the 20th century . Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-3907-8 , p. 270.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ferdinand Küchler in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Küchler, Ferdinand |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1867 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | to water |
DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1937 |
Place of death | Leipzig |