Henry Litolff

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Henry Charles Litolff, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1843

Henry Charles Litolff (born February 6, 1818 in London , † August 6, 1891 in Colombes ) was an English piano virtuoso , composer and music publisher .

Life

Litolff received piano lessons from Ignaz Moscheles as a child . From 1835 he was a piano teacher in Melun near Paris . After a sensational concert in Paris in 1840, he went on concert tours to Brussels , Leipzig , Dresden , Prague , Berlin and Amsterdam . From 1841 to 1844 he was theater conductor in Warsaw . From 1847 to 1860 he lived in Braunschweig , where in 1856 he gave his name to the publishing house he directed and founded in 1828 by Gottfried Martin Meyer († 1846) - Henry Litolff's Verlag , under his adopted son Theodor Litolff (born March 18, 1839; † March 10, 1912) from 1864 Collection Litolff . He then lived as a pianist and composer in Paris.

Litolff composed three operas and several operettas , a violin concerto, an oratorio , two overtures , piano pieces and songs .

His five “concert symphonies” for piano and orchestra, which are still played today, are considered excellent music for piano virtuosos. CD recordings were made by Moura Lympany , Misha Dichter , Shura Cherkassky and Peter Donohoe , for example .

Litolff is dedicated to a street in Braunschweig.

Works

  • Salvator Rosa , 1845
  • Catherine Howard , 1847
  • Concerto symphonique No. 3 in E flat major, op. 45 “Concert national Hollandais”
  • The Bride of the Cynast , great romantic opera after Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann , 1847
  • Maximilien Robespierre, Concert Overture (1856)
  • Rodrique de Tolède , Opera, around 1860
  • Le Chevalier Nahal ou La Gageure du diable , Comic Opera, 1866
  • La Boîte de Pandore , Opéra bouffe, 1871
  • Héloise et Abélard , Comic Opera, 1872
  • La Belle au bois dormant , fairy opera, 1874
  • La Fiancée du roi de Garbe , Comic Opera, 1874
  • La Mandragore , comic opera after Alexandre Dumas , 1876
  • Les Templiers , Opera, 1886
  • L'Escadron volant de la reine , Komische Oper, 1888
  • Le Roi Lear , opera

literature

Discography

  • Concerto Symphonique No. 2 in B minor, op.22, and Concerto Symphonique No. 4 in D minor, op.102.Soloist: Peter Donohoe, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Andrew Litton. Hyperion Records , London 1997
  • Symphonic Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in E flat major, op. 45 “National Hollandais” and No. 5 in C minor, op. 123 (first recording), soloist: Peter Donohoe, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Andrew Litton. Hyperion Records , London 2001

Web links

Commons : Henry Litolff  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Luitgard Camerer, Manfred Garzmann, Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf on behalf of the city of Braunschweig (ed.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . 4th edition. Meyer, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , pp. 146 .
  2. ^ Richard Moderhack: Braunschweiger Stadtgeschichte . Braunschweig 1997, ISBN 3-87884-050-0 , p. 170 .
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personal data
SURNAME Litolff, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Litolff, Henry Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English piano virtuoso, composer and music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1891
Place of death Colombes