Hedy Salquin

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Hedy Salquin (born October 13, 1928 in Lucerne ; † January 7, 2012 in Kriens ) was a Swiss conductor , pianist , painter and poet .

Life

Hedy Salquin was the daughter of the Neuchâtel gemologist Charles Salquin (1902–1984) and Hedwig Salquin-Stocker (1902–1990) from Lucerne . Both parents played the violin and viola as amateur musicians, and Charles Salquin played in two Lucerne orchestras. Hedy Salquin received her first piano lessons at the age of six. The father noticed his daughter's extraordinary musical talent early on. There was still no conservatory in Lucerne, the family moved to Geneva in 1939 and lived in Versoix from 1947 .

Hedy Salquin was accepted into the advanced class of Alexandre Mottu at the Geneva Conservatory in 1939 . In 1943 she became the first student of the Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti . In 1947 she obtained the soloist diploma with distinction and subsequently won several competitions. She also attended the orchestral conducting class at the Geneva Conservatory, where Samuel Baud-Bovy taught her the basics of this profession. She studied composition with Charles Chaix and Solfeggio with Lydie Meylan. During her studies she wrote music reviews for the newspaper Le Courrier . In 1949, with a recommendation from Dinu Lipatti, Hedy Salquin went to his teacher Nadia Boulanger in Paris and studied in her class for piano accompaniment.

In Paris in 1949, Hedy Salquin applied as the only woman of forty candidates for one of the very limited places in the class for orchestral conductors at Louis Fourestier . Three years later, she was the first woman in a conducting class to be awarded the first prize with distinction - until then the conductor's profession was strictly in male hands. Hedy Salquin also completed his studies with Nadia Boulanger with a first prize.

In 1952, with the successful completion of her studies in Paris, an international career as a musician and conductor began. Hedy Salquin has conducted large Swiss orchestras and orchestras in numerous European countries. In particular , she performed frequently with the Danish Radio Orchestra and the Orchester de la Suisse Romande . In 1958 she led her own women's orchestra at the Braunwald Music Weeks and at the SAFFA exhibition in Zurich. Hedy Salquin was the first Swiss woman to conduct renowned orchestras.

Parallel to her career as a conductor, she pursued her career as a pianist, soloist and accompanist in duo or chamber music formations. She also performed concerts that she conducted herself from the piano. She performed in various Swiss and European cities, in New York and several times at the International Music Festival in Lucerne (now the Lucerne Festival ).

Schauensee Castle in Kriens, location of the chamber music festival founded and directed by Hedy Salquin

Salquin wrote his first compositions while studying. She resumed composing in the 1980s. In 1966 she founded the chamber music festival "Schlosskonzerte Schauensee Kriens", which she directed until 1996 as artistic director. She invited duo partners such as Eugène Sarbu or Ottomar Borwitzky and chamber music formations from all over Europe and had a considerable number of works by contemporary Swiss composers such as Heinrich Sutermeister , Caspar Diethelm and Rudolf Kelterborn performed.

In 1967 Salquin was the first woman to be elected to the board of the Swiss Tonkünstlerverein (now Sonart). She taught at the Lucerne Music Conservatory for several years . Since 1983 she has also worked as a painter and poet.

family

Hedy Salquin married Josef Graber from Lucerne on September 25, 1958 and lived in Kriens until she died. The couple had four children (Hedy * 1961, Philomène * 1963, Felix * 1967 and Niklaus * 1968).

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Compositions (selection)

  • Thème et Variations (1945), piano
  • Nostalgie, Allegresse (1945), piano
  • Seventeen, allegretto scherzando, moderato cantabile, espressivo-andantino (1945), piano
  • Pour Mario (1945), flute, piano
  • Tantum ergo (1945), mixed choir
  • Consolation (1946), piano, violin or piano, organ
  • Premier amour (1946), piano
  • Sonatina (1947), piano
  • Three Venetian island songs - San Giorgio, San Michele, Burano (1983), voice, piano
  • Christmas Perpetuum (1983), piano
  • Nostalgic mood pictures, Anouchka's death, November on Lake Thun, Venezia, Noël (1983), piano
  • Sorriso (1984), piano
  • Toccata in es, Toccata in mi-bemol (1984), piano
  • Thunersee Suite: Bahnhof I, Bahnhof II, monologue of an old paddle steamer, Blüemlisalp, Hilterfingen, Schadau, Gwatt (1984), flute, piano
  • Voce di Milano (1989), piano
  • Médiation sur un tableau de Yawlensky (1989), piano
  • Treizour, piano suite 13x13 (1989), piano
  • Corallo (1991), piano
  • Azad (1991), piano
  • Angels passage (1993), piano
  • La berceuse des bergers (1993), piano
  • Archotranse (1994), piano
  • Piotrenka (1994), piano
  • Longinus (1994), piano
  • Automne à Schwanau (1997), piano
  • Les triolets de Brunnen (1997), piano

Books (selection)

  • From 1989: various volumes of poetry in German, French and Italian
  • 1991: Crystal of the Night (short stories)
  • 1993: The light in the skyscraper (stories)
  • 1998: Letters to the moonlight painter
  • 2000: Rock Sonata
  • 2002: The man without a backpack (story)

Discography

  • Hedy Salquin plays (1966, Music Hug - HC 676)
  • Hedy Salquin plays his own compositions (1985)
  • CD: Songs by Swiss composers , «Venetian Island Songs » (1994, MGB6118-C24)
  • Hedy Salquin, Andràs of Tòszeghi; Compositeurs Suisses (no year, Jecklin 151)

Honors and prizes

  • 1953: London, Coolidge Medal
  • 1991: Golden thaler of the municipality of Kriens (LU)
  • 1993: Culture Prize of the Municipality of Versoix (GE)
  • 1996: Culture Prize of the Municipality of Kriens (LU)

literature

  • Aaron I. Cohen: International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. 1987.
  • 30 years of the Schauensee castle concerts. Kriens 1996.
  • Elke Mascha Blankenburg: Female conductors in the 20th century. 2003.
  • Verdiana Grossi: Femmes, culture et societé. Women, culture and society. Donne, cultura e società. ISCA, Geneva 2012.


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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Marianne Zelger-Vogt: Lucerne Festival. Hedy Salquin - gifted in many ways. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 13, 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2016 .
  2. ^ Fritz Schaub: Hedy Salquin died. Conductor from the very beginning. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. January 12, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Salquin, Hedy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss conductor, pianist, painter and poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2012
Place of death Kriens