Ferdinand Laub
Ferdinand Laub (born January 19, 1832 in Prague , † March 17, 1875 in Gries-Quirein near Bozen ) was a Bohemian violinist and composer .
Life
His father, the violinist and music teacher Erasmus Laub , introduced him to music . On November 26, 1838, he performed for the first time in the U Doušů inn on Wenceslas Square in Prague . He organized his first concert on February 27, 1842. On March 29, 1846, he played with other graduates in front of Hector Berlioz and Franz Liszt . Berlioz then invited him to Paris. Laub then played concerts in Vienna, including with Emperor Ferdinand and two years as a soloist in a theater orchestra. In 1851 he took part in the first world exhibition alongside Charles-Auguste de Bériot , Henri Vieuxtemps and others and was celebrated by the critics as a world virtuoso.
From 1853 to 1855 he was concertmaster in Weimar at the suggestion of Franz Liszt and was appointed chamber virtuoso and honorary citizen of Sachsen-Weimar. Then he has to go to Marienbad for a cure (breathing difficulties) . In the same year Laub became professor at the Stern Conservatory and at Theodor Kullak's Neue Akademie der Tonkunst , where he founded an excellent quartet with which he played works by Joseph Haydn with preference . At the same time, Laub was appointed concertmaster of the Prussian court opera and a Prussian chamber virtuoso.
From 1857 to 1865 concert tours to Prague, Denmark, Vienna, Saint Petersburg , Germany, Belgium, France, Holland, together with Adelina Patti to England, Norway and Sweden followed. In Gothenburg he met Bedřich Smetana in 1860 and gave two concerts with him.
In 1863 he was appointed Austrian chamber virtuoso to succeed Joseph Mayseder . In 1866 he was appointed professor at the Moscow Conservatory and concertmaster and primacy of the quintet of the Russian music society. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky described Laub as the greatest violinist of his time and dedicated his third string quartet in E flat minor op. 30 (1876) to him .
Because of a respiratory disease and liver damage, he was forced to give up his duties in Moscow. After an unsuccessful cure in Karlovy Vary, he went to Meran , but died on the way there in Gries. He was buried in Prague-Olšany .
plant
He made a name for himself not only as a violin virtuoso, but also as a concertmaster and music teacher. His students included Adolf Brodský , Jan Hřímal and his son composer and violinist Váša Laub . He also wrote some poems.
Compositions
- Polonaise
- Quartet in C sharp minor for strings
- Romance et Improptu for violin and piano, Op. 7th
Monuments
- Laubov Museum in Pürglitz
- Foliage Monument by Vojtěch Sapíka Seminářská zahrada in Prague
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Laub, Ferdinand . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 14th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1865, pp. 190–192 ( digitized version ).
- Bohuslav Šich: Ferdinand Laub. Život a dílo slavného českého houslisty . Orbis, Prague 1951.
- Antonicek: Foliage Ferdinand. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 44.
- Werner Bollert: Laub, Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 687 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Ferdinand Laub in the International Music Score Library Project
- Literature and other media by and about Ferdinand Laub in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Media from and about Ferdinand Laub in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laub, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bohemian violinist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1875 |
| Place of death | Semolina quirein near Bolzano |