Gustav Schmahl

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Gustav Schmahl (born November 29, 1929 in Herford , † October 4, 2003 in Schwielowsee ) was a German violinist and university professor . He was the only student of David Oistrach from the GDR. Schmahl worked for a time as concertmaster of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and from 1973 to 1984 as the rector of the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music in Leipzig .

Life

Gustav Schmahl was born in 1929 in Herford, Westphalia, the son of a violinist and grew up in Berlin . He received his first violin lessons at the age of seven. House music was cultivated in his parents' house , the concerts of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin had a formative effect on the young Schmahl. After attending secondary school and graduating from high school in 1949, he studied for two semesters with the violin virtuoso Max Strub at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold.

After the founding of the GDR , he moved to Gustav Havemann at the German University of Music in East Berlin in 1950 . The influential composer Hanns Eisler was one of his teachers there. In 1950 he was a winner of a competition of the FDJ and in 1951 he qualified for the III. World Festival of Youth and Students in East Berlin. A study visit led him as the only violinist from the GDR to the Soviet teacher and virtuoso David Oistrach at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory . In 1953 he won an international music competition in Bucharest (Romania). Later (1962) he took part in the violin category at the second International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Schmahl, who had joined the SED in the GDR , became first concertmaster of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Hermann Abendroth in 1953 . Concert tours have taken him all over the world to the USA, and he has given concerts repeatedly in Italy and the Soviet Union. He performed with the most important orchestras in the GDR a. a. the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Dresden State Orchestra and Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra . He also played with the Handel Festival Orchestra in Halle . He had encounters with well-known conductors of those years such as Franz Konwitschny , Kurt Sanderling and Kurt Masur . Schmahl also advocated contemporary works by GDR composers, for example he repeatedly performed Ernst Hermann Meyer's 1963/64 concert and was responsible for the premieres of Gerhard Rosenfeld's first two violin concertos (1963 and 1973) in Dresden . In 1982, Siegfried Köhler's Violin Concerto followed. Chamber music he played a. a. Works by Igor Stravinsky , Dmitri Schostakowitsch , Sergei Prokofjew and Hans Werner Henze . Together with Hugo Steurer (piano) and Clemens Dillner (violoncello), he has appeared with the Arte Trio since 1956.

In 1963 he took on a teaching position and in 1970 a full-time lecturer at the Dresden University of Music . In 1971 he became professor of violin and head of a master class . In 1973 he moved to Leipzig, where from 1973 to 1984 he succeeded Rudolf Fischer as Rector of the Musikhochschule . Later he was responsible for all master classes at the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin . His master students included u. a. Heike Janicke , Torsten Janicke , Ralf-Carsten Brömsel , Conrad Muck and Wolfgang Hentrich .

In 1971 he was elected to the board of the international Georg Friedrich Händel Society . In 1977 he was a member of the committee for the Beethoven honor in the GDR. He was also a member of the Presidium of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR . He was a juror at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig.

Schmahl lived in Berlin-Zehlendorf during his studies and only moved with his family to Kleinmachnow in the GDR in 1957 . After the political change he founded a taxi company . Schmahl died in 2003 in Caputh in the Schwielowsee community in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district .

family

The writer and journalist Martin Ahrends (* 1951), who took his wife's name when they married, and the trumpeter Daniel Schmahl (* 1969) are his sons. An exit visa Ahrend 'in the Federal Republic of Germany was granted 1984th In Hamburg he worked as an editor for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . Like other musicians, Gustav Schmahl used to hang out with the former Federal Chancellor and Zeit- Editor Helmut Schmidt and his wife Loki Schmidt at Lake Brahmsee.

Awards

literature

  • Gabriele Baumgartner: Schmahl, Gustav . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ, DDR . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 783.
  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR . 4th revised and expanded edition, Dietz, Berlin a. a. 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 279.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c New recital with Erna Berger . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 21, 1958, vol. 14, issue 44, p. 5.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Conversation with Georg Antosch: virtuoso, juror and music teacher . In: Neue Zeit , July 5, 1980, vol. 36, issue 157, p. 7.
  3. ^ The winners of the FDJ . In: Neues Deutschland , May 31, 1950, vol. 5, edition 123, p. 3.
  4. ↑ Our best young soloists: Final selection for the III. World Festival . In: Neues Deutschland , July 27, 1951, vol. 6, issue 171, p. 4.
  5. ^ Reinhard Schmiedel: Album sheet for Prof. Günter Kootz on the occasion of his 90th birthday . In: MT-Journal No. 47, June 2019, pp. 85f.
  6. ^ Emil Gilels : 2nd Tchaikovsky Competition . In: Neue Zeit , January 4, 1962, vol. 18, edition 3, p. 1.
  7. ↑ Reiner Gebauer: A city honors its composer: Review of the 22nd Handel Festival . In: Neue Zeit , June 21, 1973, vol. 29, issue 144, p. 5.
  8. ^ Violin concerto premiered . In: Neue Zeit , March 23, 1982, vol. 38, issue 69, p. 4.
  9. ^ The Arte-Trio and Christian Ferras: New events in the popular concert series . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 24, 1958, vol. 14, issue 20, p. 6.
  10. ↑ Hans Peter Altmann: On the death of the violinist and teacher Gustav Schmahl . In: Dresdner Latest News , October 7, 2003, p. 8.
  11. ^ EH Meyer again chairman. Handel Society elected its new board . In: Neue Zeit , June 23, 1971, vol. 27, issue 145, p. 7.
  12. ↑ Committee for the Beethoven Honor 1977 . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 17, 1976, vol. 32, edition 300, p. 6.
  13. ↑ Congratulations for the new association presidency: Wolfgang Lesser re-elected as president . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 14, 1987, vol. 43, issue 38, p. 7.
  14. ↑ Astrid Priebs-Tröger: Clear the fog of the unspoken . In: Potsdamer Latest News , No. 232, October 6, 2014, p. 20.
  15. ↑ a b Karim Saab: "My father betrayed me" . In: Märkische Allgemeine , July 27, 2015.
  16. ↑ Died: Gustav Schmahl . In: Der Spiegel 42/2003, p. 210 ( PDF ).
  17. ↑ Reiner Lehberger : Loki Schmidt: the biography. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-455-50285-5 , p. 239.
  18. ↑ Christoph Rink: Chronology of the Handel price . In: Announcements of the Friends and Sponsors of the Handel House in Halle eV 1/2012, pp. 20–25, here: p. 24.
  19. ↑ Honor roll . In: University newspaper of the Karl Marx University Leipzig , No. 45/1984, December 7, 1984, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Schmahl, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 2003
Place of death Schwielowsee