Gustav Hollaender

Gustav Hollaender (born February 15, 1855 in Leobschütz , † December 4, 1915 in Berlin ) was a German violinist , conductor and composer .

Life

As the son of the doctor Siegmund Hollaender and his wife Renette Danziger, he grew up first in Leobschütz, then in Berlin. His younger brothers were the later composer Victor Hollaender and the later writer Felix Hollaender . He studied violin first at the Leipzig Conservatory with Ferdinand David , then at the Royal Academic University for Performing Music in Berlin with Joseph Joachim and Friedrich Kiel .

He began his independent artistic activity as a royal chamber musician at the Berlin Court Opera . In 1877 he was employed as a violin teacher at the F. Kullak Music Institute . On a concert tour to Austria he accompanied the coloratura singer Carlotta Patti , Adelina's sister , as a solo player. He formed a piano trio with Xaver Scharwenka (piano) and Heinrich Grünfeld (cello) and gave chamber music evenings at the Berlin Singakademie from 1871 to 1881 . This was followed in 1881 by an appointment to Cologne as concertmaster of the Gürzenich concerts there and as a violin teacher at the Rheinische Musikschule, and in 1884 as first concertmaster at the Cologne city theater . In Cologne he also founded the Gürzenich Quartet with Emil Baré (second violin), Josef Schwartz (viola) and Friedrich Grützmacher junior (cello), which has made successful concert tours in Germany, Belgium, England, Italy and Denmark.

Head of a treaty from 1930

He was a member of the united Cologne Freemason Lodge Minerva to the patriotic association and Rhenana to humanity . In 1894, after the death of Jenny Meyer , he took over the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. The conservatory flourished under his leadership. It was attended by more than a thousand pupils a year and got by without any subsidy.

With Willy Nicking , Heinrich Brandler and Leo Schrattenholz , he again founded a string quartet, which he added after the last two left with Walther Rampelmann and Anton Hecking .

As a composer, he created works for violin and orchestra, including three violin concertos and several works for violin and piano. He also published some study books for teaching purposes. Stylistically, he remained committed to romanticism .

Descendants

Gustav Hollaender had three children:

• Melanie Hollaender (* 1880) became a recitation teacher, was called Herz-Hollaender after her marriage and emigrated in 1939.
• Kurt Hollaender (* 1885) became a businessman and, after the " Aryanization " of the Stern Conservatory, founded the Jewish private music school Hollaender , which existed until 1940 in Berlin-Charlottenburg at 9 Sybelstrasse. On October 27, 1941, he and his wife Herta were expropriated, deported to the Litzmannstadt ghetto and murdered there.
• Susanne Hollaender (* 1892) became a singer and was called Landsberg after her marriage. She also worked as a co-owner of the Jewish private music school Hollaender . On January 29, 1943, she was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered there a short time later.

literature

• Adolph Kohut : Famous Israelite Men and Women in the Cultural History of Mankind , 1901 weblink

Web links

• Literature by and about Gustav Hollaender in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short bio Holländer, Gustav (1855-1915) on Famous Israelite Men and Women in the Cultural History of Mankind. 1st volume, 1901
• Chronology of the Julius Stern Institute at the Berlin University of the Arts
• Speech by the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorfer District Mayor Monika Thiemen: On the unveiling of a plaque of the Active Museum eV association for the Jewish private music school Hollaender at Sybelstrasse 9 on March 21, 2007