Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis (violinist)
Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis (born March 12, 1785 in Mannheim , † October 20, 1842 in Prague ) was a German violinist, composer and music director in Prague.
Life
Pixi's father Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis (1755–1805) was a teacher and organist in Mannheim. The first teacher was the father, then Heinrich Ritter and Ignaz Fränzl . After a few years of violin lessons, Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis appeared in public. His younger brother Johann Peter Pixis was a pianist. From 1796 the father and his two sons went on concert tours through Germany, Denmark, Russia and Poland.
From March to May 1798 the brothers gave several concerts in Hamburg. During this time Giovanni Battista Viotti must have noticed the young violinist. Viotti had been in exile in Hamburg and Schenefeld (near Pinneberg) since March . Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis stayed in Schenefeld with his father all summer 1798 and during this time received free lessons from Viotti. On October 6, 1798, the brothers gave another concert in the French theater in Hamburg, apparently after these lessons had been completed. From 1804 to 1806 Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis was a violinist in the Mannheim orchestra. Finally the father moved to Vienna. The sons Friedrich Wilhelm and Johann Peter began studying composition with Johann Georg Albrechtsberger in the autumn of 1805 . In 1806 and 1807 they gave concerts in Prague, and in October 1807 also in the Leipzig Gewandhaus .
In 1811 Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis accepted a professorship for violin at the newly founded Prague Conservatory . Later he took over the management of the theater orchestra and the Tonkünstlergesellschaft. He is considered to be the founder of the Prague violin school. His students included his son Theodor Pixis , Moritz Mildner , Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda and Carl Ferdinand Füchs . The maintenance of music in Prague was largely in his hands. He regularly gave chamber concerts with Count Albert von Nostitz-Rieneck . He was the leader of his own string quartet; his quartet evenings are described by contemporaries as the highest musical enjoyment. He organized music academies where he performed his violin compositions, only a few of which have survived, such as a concertino for violin and orchestra in D major, concerts, an overture, variations, the string quartet op.1 in D major and a sonata .
Web links
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Pixis, Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 22nd part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1870, pp. 378–380 ( digitized version ).
- Robert Eitner : Pixis, Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 219.
- Antonín Myslík: Pixis, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 110.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ According to other information, the year of birth is 1786.
- ^ A. Mason Clarke: A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers. Reeves, London 1895, p. 255 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pixis, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violinist and theater director of the early romantic era |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1785 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1842 |
| Place of death | Prague |