Fritz Kirmse

Fritz Kirmse (1st from left) as a member of the Kirmse Quartet (1949)

Fritz Kirmse (born February 11, 1912 in Leipzig ) is or was a German violinist and university professor. From 1934 to 1936 he was appointed to the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra . From 1937 to 1939 he was the first concertmaster of the Halle Municipal Orchestra .

Life

Fritz Kirmse was born in Leipzig in 1912. First he received violin lessons from Emil Kolb and then studied with Walther Davisson and Charles Münch at the State Conservatory of Music in Leipzig . Even during his studies he took part in the Gewandhaus concerts.

In August 1933 he was engaged with the 1st violins in Hanover . From 1934 to 1936 he was also appointed to the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra . He received the honorary title of chamber musician in June 1937. From July 1937 he was first concertmaster at the Halle City Orchestra . In 1939 he went to the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra , where he deliberately stayed in Leipzig in the course of the transfer of radio musicians to other Großdeutscher Rundfunk broadcasters in April 1941 and took a position as 3rd concertmaster with the Gewandhausorchester , which he filled until August 1947. From 1947 to 1958 he moved back to the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra. Then he worked under Erich Donnerhack at the State Entertainment Orchestra Halle.

In 1938/39 he was first violinist of the string quartet of the Halle City Orchestra. After 1945 he was the first violinist of the Kirmse Quartet. In addition, from 1949 he was a member of the Leipzig Beethoven Piano Trio.

In addition, he was a teacher at the State University of Music in Leipzig from 1946 to 1948. He then taught at the State University for Theater and Music in Halle . His students included u. a. the Gewandhaus musician Rolf Harzer.

Discography

Gian Francesco Malipiero : Violin Concerto (Urania Records 1954) - recording with Rolf Kleinert and the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
Johannes Brahms : Double Concerto in A minor for violin, violoncello and orchestra (published by Tahra) - recording from 1950 with Bernhard Günther, Hermann Abendroth and the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra

literature

Hans-Rainer Jung: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 , p. 233.
Heinrich Sievers : The music in Hanover. The musical currents in Lower Saxony from the Middle Ages to the present with special consideration of the music history of the state capital Hanover . Edited on the occasion of the 325th anniversary of the Opera House Orchestra by the Society of Friends of the Opera House Orchestra, Sponholtz, Hanover 1961, p. 143.

Web links

Commons : Fritz Kirmse - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Fritz Kirmse in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Fritz Kirmse in the MusicSack database

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Hans-Rainer Jung: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 , p. 233.
^ ^A ^b Heinrich Sievers : The music in Hanover. The musical currents in Lower Saxony from the Middle Ages to the present with special consideration of the music history of the state capital Hanover . Edited on the occasion of the 325th anniversary of the Opera House Orchestra by the Society of Friends of the Opera House Orchestra, Sponholtz, Hanover 1961, p. 143.
^ Alfred Sous : The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. History, stories and anecdotes from then to now . Lienau, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87484-125-1 , p. 138.
^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 225.
↑ HL: Chamber music perfection . In: Neue Zeit , September 24, 1953, vol. 9, edition 223, p. 4.
^ Klaus Suckel: The State University for Theater and Music Halle. Memory of studying music in Halle . In: Handel House Communications 1/1999, pp. 32–37, here: p. 34.

personal data
SURNAME	Kirmse, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German violinist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 11, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig

[Jung-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Hans-Rainer Jung: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 , p. 233.

[Sievers-2] A ^b Heinrich Sievers : The music in Hanover. The musical currents in Lower Saxony from the Middle Ages to the present with special consideration of the music history of the state capital Hanover . Edited on the occasion of the 325th anniversary of the Opera House Orchestra by the Society of Friends of the Opera House Orchestra, Sponholtz, Hanover 1961, p. 143.

[3] Alfred Sous : The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. History, stories and anecdotes from then to now . Lienau, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87484-125-1 , p. 138.

[4] Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 225.

[5] HL: Chamber music perfection . In: Neue Zeit , September 24, 1953, vol. 9, edition 223, p. 4.

[6] Klaus Suckel: The State University for Theater and Music Halle. Memory of studying music in Halle . In: Handel House Communications 1/1999, pp. 32–37, here: p. 34.