Fritz Schertel

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Friedrich Schertel (born February 13, 1890 in Schweinfurt , † April 5, 1945 in Bayreuth ) was a German cello virtuoso .

Life

Fritz Schertel was born in 1890 as the youngest son of the bank accountant and later state bank director Sigmund Schertel and his wife Marie Schertel, b. Pfeiffer was born in Schweinfurt, Franconia . After finishing high school in Hof , he studied at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

From 1909 to 1912 he studied music at the Royal Academy of Music in Munich. In 1913/14 he received private cello lessons from Julius Klengel in Leipzig. From 1919 to 1921 he was a cellist in the Marteau Quartet. In 1921/22 he was principal cellist with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra . From 1922 he was a teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory . His students included u. a. Erich Hillmann and Hans Kral . In 1933 he also became a member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig. He was repeatedly appointed to the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra (1924/25, 1927/28, 1930/31, 1933/34, 1936–1944).

Schertel was a member of Walther Davisson's string quartet . Later he was a member of the Mlynarczyk Quartet (1923–1943) and the Bohnhardt Quartet (1938–1943) as well as the Weitzmann Trio. A soloist he appeared on the scene, he brought in 1929 Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk under the direction of Alfred Szendrei , the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by Fritz Reuter to the premiere .

He was also a member of the Reich Association of German Tonkünstler and Music Teachers .

family

His brothers were Wilhelm Schertel (1883–1930), chemist and artist, and Ernst Karl Schertel (1884–1958), writer and teacher. A portrait sketch of the cellist made by Otto Pleß appeared in an article in the Zeitschrift für Musik in 1934 about personalities in Leipzig's musical life . Schertel, a Catholic, was married to Magda Laier and had one son. The family was killed during the air raids on Bayreuth in April 1945.

literature

  • Hans-Rainer Jung: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. Faber and Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 , p. 226.
  • Erich H. Müller (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Sous : The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. History, stories and anecdotes from then to now . Lienau, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87484-125-1 , p. 151.
  2. ^ Alfred Heuss , Walter Niemann : From the Leipzig musical life . In: Zeitschrift für Musik 89 (1922) 1, pp. 10–13, here: p. 13.
  3. ^ 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. 163.
  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. 77.
  5. ↑ Concert podium . In: Zeitschrift für Musik 107 (1940) 1, p. 58.
  6. ^ Heinz Wegener: Bibliography Fritz Reuter . In the S. (Red. Ed.): Commemorative publication Fritz Reuter (= scientific journal of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Social and linguistic series 15 (1966) 3). S. I-VIII, here: S. IVf.
  7. ^ Hans Mlynarczyk: Leipziger Bilderbogen . In: Zeitschrift für Musik 101 (1934) 2, pp. 148–154, here: p. 154.
personal data
SURNAME Schertel, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schertel, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cello virtuoso
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinfurt
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1945
Place of death Bayreuth