Henri Marteau (violinist)

Henri Marteau

Gravesite of Henri and Blanche Marteau in Lichtenberg

Memorial plaque at the entrance to the music venue

Henri Marteau (born March 31, 1874 in Reims , † October 4, 1934 in Lichtenberg im Hofer Land ) was a Franco-German violinist and composer .

Life

Marteau's French father, Charles Marteau, was a textile factory owner and violin amateur, while the German mother, Carla Schwendy, played the piano. Marteau began to learn to play the violin at the age of five, and Hubert Léonard was his teacher from 1881 . On April 9, 1884, Marteau made his debut in Reims with great success in front of an audience of 2,500. From 1887 appearances in Vienna and London followed. In 1891 Marteau enrolled at the Paris Conservatoire , where he was awarded the Premier Prix du Conservatoire National Concours in 1892. In 1893/94 he made two concert tours to the USA.

Even as a 21-year-old, Marteau saw himself not only as a violinist and composer, but also advocated a uniform regulation of copyright law for musical works. In 1900 he received his first professorship in Geneva. On July 23, 1908, Marteau succeeded Joseph Joachim as professor of violin at the University of Music in Berlin . He was artist friendship with Max Reger , Charles Gounod , Jules Massenet , Peter Tschaikowsky , Antonín Dvořák , Edvard Grieg , Théodore Dubois , Béla Bartók and Camille Saint-Saëns . The friendship with Reger, whose violin concerto he premiered in Leipzig in 1908, broke up later, however; After Reger's death, the violin virtuoso and Bückeburg court conductor Richard Sahla became the conductor of the Berlin premieres of Marteau's own violin concertos.

Because of his French citizenship, Marteau was interned after the outbreak of the First World War , lost his Berlin professorship on September 30, 1915 and was later placed under house arrest in his villa built in 1913 in the city of Lichtenberg (Upper Franconia). After the war, Marteau took on Swedish citizenship. He later took on teaching positions at the German Academy in Prague (1921 to 1924), at the Leipzig Conservatory (1926/27) and at the Dresden Conservatory (1928 to 1934). He also taught privately and went on concert tours.

Marteau died on October 4, 1934 in his villa in Lichtenberg in the Hofer Land , where he also found his final resting place.

Compositional work

In addition to his work as a violin virtuoso, Marteau has also emerged as a composer. His oeuvre includes 45 works with opus numbers, including vocal and chamber music as well as orchestral works, as well as several works for and with organ in the tradition of his teacher Théodore Dubois .

Selection of works

• without op.Symphony (1903) unfinished, one movement (I. Lento - Allegro maestoso)
• without op. La voix de Jeanne d'Arc , cantata for soprano, choir and orchestra
• without op.Master Schwalbe , musical comedy in one act (1922)
• without op.Andante for violin and orchestra (1891)
• op. 1 Berceuse for violin and piano (1902)
• op. 2 Three pieces for string instrument and piano No. 1 Berceuse for violin and piano, No. 2 Feuillet d'Album in D minor for viola and piano, No. 3 Andantino in A minor for violin and piano
• op.3 Fantasy piece for violin and piano (1904)
• op.4 Deux Chants religieux (Pater noster for bass and organ, Ave Maria for voice, violin, harp and organ)
• op.5 String Quartet No. 1 in D flat major (1904)
• op. 7 Cello Concerto in B flat major (1904).
• op.8 Chaconne for viola and piano (1905)
• op.9 String Quartet No. 2 in D major (1905)
• op. 10 Eight songs for voice and string quartet or piano; 1. To Agnes, 2. Teardrop, 3. When love came, 4. In the garden of my soul, 5. Love song, 6.a sun song, 6.b sun song, 7. dreams, 8th autumn.
• op. 12 Trio for violin, viola and violoncello (dedicated to Max Reger) (1907?).
• op. 13 Quintet in C minor for clarinet and string quartet (1908).
• op. 14 bow studies for violin with accompaniment of a second violin
• Op. 15 Suite for violin and orchestra (I. Preludio. Allegro non troppo e maestoso, II. Tema by variazioni, III. Minuetto. Tempo die menuetto. Moderato - attaca, IV. Finale-Rondo: Allegro by spirito)
• op.17 String Quartet No. 3 in C major (1916)
• op. 18 Violin Concerto in C major (piano reduction published, score lost, but reconstructed by Raoul Grüneis); (I. Allegro risoluto - Allegro energico, ma non troppo, II. Adagio, III. Finale (Rondo). Allegro con fuoco, ma non troppo)
• Op. 19 Études de gammes (Scale Studies) for violin (1916)
• op. 19 c Huit mélodies , 1. "Pluie" ("Il pleut. J'entends le bruit égal des eaux" Victor Hugo ), 2. "À Douarnenez en Bretagne" ("On respire du sel dans l'air" Sully Prudhomme ), 3. "Ritournelle" ("Dans la plaine blonde et sous les allées" François Coppée ) 4. "Matin d'octobre" ("C'est l'heure exquise et matinale" Coppée) 5. "Chanson de mer "(" Ton sourire infini m'est cher "Sully Prudhomme) 6." Vitrail "(" Sur un fond d'or pâli, les saints rouges et bleus "Coppée) 7." Pitié des choses "(Coppée) 8." Dans la rue, le soir "(" Neuf heures. On entend la retraite aux tambours. "Coppée)
• op.20 Serenade for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet and 2 bassoons (1922)
• op. 23 Three compositions for organ (1918).
  • Prelude et Passacaille op.23 No. 1
  • Prelude et Fugue op.23 No. 2
  • Introduction et Fugue méditative op.3
• op. 25 24 Caprices for violin and piano
• op. 27 Fantasy for Organ and Violin (1923).
• op. 28 Eight songs , 1. "Stille Fahrt" ("I stood by a dark sea" Hans Benzmann ) 2 "The oak trees" ("From the gardens I come to you, you sons of the mountain!" Friedrich Hölderlin ), 3. "Abendlied" ("The night has fallen" Otto Julius Bierbaum ), 4. "Up!" ("Now wide, proud wings from" Adolf Holst ), 5. "Summit happiness" ("A scent blows everywhere" Carmen Sylva ) 6. "Rain song" ("Walle, rain, walle down" Klaus Groth ) 7. "Beware "(" Where a bride and groom settles at the stove " Emanuel Geibel ), 8." Night of love "(" Oh, sweet lover! Martin Greif )
• op.29 Three sacred chants for voice with organ accompaniment (1923)
• op. 30 Symphony in E major (1922)
• op. 31 Five reed lilacs Nikolaus Lenau 1. "Over there the sun is parting" 2. "It gets cloudy, the clouds are chasing" 3. "On a secret forest path" 4. "Sunset; black clouds move" 5. "On the pond , the motionless "
• op.32 Terzetto for flute, violin and viola (1924)
• op.33 Three songs for mixed choir (1924)
• op.34 Two ballads for voice and piano (1924)
• op.35 Pastorale e rondino alla tedesco for oboe and orchestra (1924)
• op. 42 No. 2 Partita for flute and violin
• op.43 No. 1 Divertimento for flute and violin (1931)

Others

Marteau as a freemason

Henri Marteau was a Freemason . On March 29, 1929, he was promoted to Master Freemason in Hof in the St. John's Lodge Zum Morgenstern after his grand lodge Zum Licht in Sofia had given her consent.

International music meeting place Haus Marteau

International music meeting place Haus Marteau

The heirs, including Marteau's daughter Mona Linsmayer-Marteau, intended a sensible use of the Lichtenberg property in the Marteau tradition. In 1982 the international music meeting place Haus Marteau was founded under the auspices of the district of Upper Franconia . Master classes and the Henri Marteau International Violin Competition take place here. The range of courses offered by the House of Marteau includes numerous musical styles. Various festivities and concerts took place for the 25th anniversary in October 2007. The Henri Marteau International Violin Competition takes place every three years with the first two of the three rounds.

Honors

Memorial stone in Lichtenberg

In Hof, the Henri-Marteau-Straße is named after him, in Lichtenberg the Henri-Marteau-Platz in the center of the village, on which there is also a memorial stone.

CD publications

• Henri Marteau: Cello Concerto in B flat major op.7 with Walter Nothas and the Munich Beethoven Orchestra under Günther Weiß and clarinet quintet with Gerd Starke and the Endres quartet (Musica Bavarica MB 75 124)
• Henri Marteau: Discovery of a Romantic Vol. 1 (Solo Musica SM 229)
• Henri Marteau: Song Cycles Opus 19c and Opus 28 with Vesselina Kasarova and Fünf Schilflieder for baritone with piano and obbligato viola op.31 with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Solo Musica SM 263)
• Henri Marteau: Clarinet Quintet Op. 13 with the Praetorius Quartet and String Quartet Op. 9 with the Marteau Quartet (Solo Musica SM 282)
• Henri Marteau: String Quartets, Vol. 1 with the Isasi Quartet (CPO 555 128-2)
• Henri Marteau: Violin Concerto in C major Op. 18 / Serenade Op. 20 with Nicolas Koeckert and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern (Solo Musica SM 299)
• Henri Marteau: String Quartets, Vol. 2 with the Isasi Quartet (CPO 555 129-2)

literature

• Blanche Marteau: Henri Marteau. Triumphant advance of a violin (biography), Schneider, Tutzing 1971, ISBN 3-7952-0062-8 .
• Günter Weiß (Ed.): Announcements from the Marteau house in Lichtenberg / Ofr. Schneider, Tutzing
  • 1. - Commemorative publication on the handover of the Marteau house to the public on October 22, 1982.
  • 2. - Henri Marteau commemorative year 1984. 1984, ISBN 3-7952-0407-0 .
  • 3. - Catalog of the Henri Marteau exhibition at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich.
  • 4. - European Year of Music, European Year of Youth. 1985, ISBN 3-7952-0461-5 .
  • 5. - Hubert Léonard, the teacher and companion of Henri Marteau. ISBN 3-7952-0523-9 .
  • 6. - Klaus Bangerter: Henri Marteau as a composer in the mirror of criticism. A study on the concept of "unity" in music criticism around 1900. 1991, ISBN 3-7952-0665-0 (The series was discontinued with the publication of the sixth volume.)
• Irene Reif : Marteau House. Music meeting place in the "Nortwald. Location determination: Tusculum over the Saale valley ". In: Franconia - my love. Oberfränkische Verlagsanstalt, Hof 1989, ISBN 3-921615-91-7 , pp. 205f.
• Irene Reif: In Memoriam Henry Marteau. In: Franconia - my love. Oberfränkische Verlagsanstalt, Hof 1989, ISBN 3-921615-91-7 , pp. 211f.
• Günther Weiß: The great violinist Marteau (1874–1934). An artist's fate in Europe. Schneider, Tutzing 2002, ISBN 3-7952-1104-2 .
• Ludger Stühlmeyer : Musica semper reformanda - music practice in the Archdiocese of Bamberg in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Stations of church music in the Archdiocese of Bamberg. Edited by the Office for Church Music Bamberg 2007

Web links

• Works by and about Henri Marteau in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Henri Marteau  in the German Digital Library
• Sheet music and audio files by Henri Marteau in the International Music Score Library Project
• Directory of Henri Marteau's estate in the Bavarian State Library
• International music meeting place Haus Marteau
• International Violin Competition Henri Marteau

Individual evidence

1. ^ François Coppée "Dans la rue, le soir"