Friedrich Grützmacher
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Grützmacher (born March 1, 1832 in Dessau , † February 23, 1903 in Dresden ) was a German cellist and composer .
Life
The older brother of Leopold Grützmacher was a student of Friedrich Schneider and Karl Drechsler . In 1849 he became principal cellist at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and cello teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory . From 1860 he was royal chamber virtuoso at the Dresden court orchestra.
Friedrich Grützmacher wrote a high school of cello playing and composed numerous cello pieces, a cello concerto, overtures and fantasies for orchestra, chamber music works, piano pieces and songs . Today Grützmacher is best known for having subjected Luigi Boccherini's Cello Concerto No. 9 in B flat major G 482 to a massive revision by making the solo part more brilliant, adding parts of other works by Boccherini to the concerto and thus changing the musical text considerably . This version has remained very popular to this day and is played frequently.
Grützmacher died in Dresden in 1903 and was buried in the Trinitatisfriedhof .
Works
- op. 4 Cinq morceaux pour Violoncelle et Piano
- op. 6 Trio pour Pianoforte, Violon et Violoncelle
- op. 7 Fantaisie hongroise pour Violoncelle with Piano or Orchester
- op. 9 10 morceaux en style national
- op.10 Concerto for Violoncello with Orchestra No. 1
- op.13 Memory of Leipzig (Duo)
- op.19 3 romances (ca.1851)
- No. 1 for violin and orchestra (or quartet, or pianoforte)
- No. 2 for viola and orchestra (or quartet, or pianoforte)
- No. 3 for cello and orchestra (or quartet, or pianoforte)
- op. 22 3 duos for 2 violoncellos in A minor, D major, C major
- op. 31 Variations on an Original Theme. Concert piece for the violoncello with accompaniment of the orchestra or the pianoforte
- op. 33 Large concert fantasy on themes from the romantic opera "Santa Chiara"
- op. 38 Technology of Violoncello Playing: 24 Etudes for Violoncello
- op.42 Concerto for Violoncello with Orchestra No. 2
- op. 46 Concerto for Violoncello with Orchestra No. 3, E minor
- op. 54 Concert Overture in D major for large orchestra
- op. 60 transcriptions of classical pieces of music for cello & pianoforte
- op. 60 No. 4 waltzes (Franz Schubert)
- op. 60 No. 5 Romanesca: melody from the 16th century (Anonymous)
- op. 65 consecration song for four violoncellos
- op. 67 Daily Studies for Violoncello
- op. 72 12 Etudes for Violoncello (Violoncello 2 ad libitum)
literature
- Adolph Kohut : The Dresden Court Theater in the Present . E. Pierson's Publishing House. Dresden & Leipzig 1888, p. 417 ff., ( Digitized version ).
- Ludolf Lützen: Friedrich Grützmacher's violoncello transcriptions . Bosse, Regensburg 1974, ISBN 3-7649-2586-8
- Ernst Waeltner: Grützmacher, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 206 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Friedrich Grützmacher in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Todtenschau . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 1, 1904, p. 227.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grützmacher, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grützmacher, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cellist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dessau |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1903 |
| Place of death | Dresden |