Gerald Walenn

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Gerald Walenn around 1924
New South Wales State Conservatorium Quartet: Gerald Walenn, Lionel Lawson , Gladstone Bell and Alfred Hill

Gerald Harman Walenn (born November 19, 1871 in London ( England ), † January 29, 1942 in Australia ) was a British violinist and composer of classical music.

Life

Gerald Walenn's father was a scientist and worked for many years in the London Patent Office. His mother had enjoyed a musical education, but had not continued to study. The musical interest in the family was still great and led to many of the couple's children later taking up a music career. Thus Herbert Walenn a cellist and professor at the Royal Academy of Music , Charles Walenn worked at the JC Williamson Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company , another brother was a respected organist and Gerald Walenn and one of his sisters studied violin. Two other siblings also found their way into professions in the visual arts.

Gerald Walenn received his first violin lessons at the age of 8 from Kate Chaplin and later from John Rutson . He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Prosper Sainton and, after his death, with Emile Sauret .

His concert debut Gerald Walenn at the age of 14 years with the Ballade for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 16a of Moritz Moszkowski in the St James's Hall . He later had the honor of playing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in Osborne in the presence of Queen Victoria . Gerald Walenn has played on concert tours in the UK as well as the USA and Canada.

In 1903 he founded the Walenn String Quartet with Herbert Kinze (violin), James Lockyer (viola) and his brother Herbert (cello). Later the viola position was replaced by Lionel Tertis . The quartet disbanded in 1914 when the First World War broke out.

In 1917 Gerald Walenn moved to Australia, following a call to a violin professorship at the Elder Conservatory in Adelaide . In 1924, seven years later, Walenn moved to the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music in Sydney , where he held the same position and founded the Conservatorium String Quartet with Lionel Lawson (violin), Alfred Hill (viola) and Gladstone Bell (cello) .

Works

  • Feuille d'album, for violin and piano
  • 3 pieces for violin and piano
  • Song of the desert
  • butterfly
  • Romance & Allegro, for 2 violins, cello and piano
  • Caprice for violin and orchestra
  • Harlequinade for violin and piano or orchestra (1900)
  • Quartet for 2 violins, cello and piano
  • 3 easy pieces, for violin and piano
  • Old Lavender, for violin and piano

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article in The Advertiser newspaper , June 17, 1917
  2. ↑ Article in The Advertiser newspaper , June 17, 1917
  3. ↑ Article in the Hawera & Normaby Star newspaper on March 8, 1924
  4. ↑ Article in the Hawera & Normaby Star newspaper on March 8, 1924
  5. ↑ Article in The Advertiser newspaper , June 17, 1917
  6. ↑ Pleskun, Stephen (2012): A Chronological History of Australian Composers and Their Compositions. Volume 1: 1901–1954. Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4653-8226-9
personal data
SURNAME Walenn, Gerald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walenn, Gerald Harman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH London ( England )
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1942
Place of death Australia