Henry Schradieck

Henry Schradieck (born April 29, 1846 in Hamburg , † May 25, 1918 in Brooklyn , New York ) was a German violinist, music teacher and composer.

The son of a violin professor had lessons at the age of four and performed in Hamburg when he was five. The violinist Teresa Milanollo funded him to study at the Brussels Conservatory , where he was a student of Hubert Léonard from 1854 to 1857 . He later studied with Ferdinand David in Leipzig for two years .

In 1863 he worked as solo violinist in the private concerts organized by Carl Martin Reinthaler in Bremen. From 1864 to 1868 he lived in Moscow. He taught here at Nikolai Rubinstein's music school and played the first violin at the concerts of the Russian Music Society. Although he was not formally his pupil, he made great profits from his acquaintance with the violinist Ferdinand Laub , who was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory.

After his return to Hamburg, Schradieck was director of the Philharmonic Concerts. In 1874 he became Vice Kapellmeister of the Gewandhaus Orchestra and professor of violin at the Leipzig Conservatory . In 1883 he traveled to the United States for the first time and taught at the College of Music at Cincinnati . After the resignation of Florián Zajíc , he took over again the direction of the Hamburg Philharmonic Concerts in 1890. In 1898 he finally moved to the USA and taught at various institutions in New York and Philadelphia.

Schradieck's compositional activity is little known. The Gorno Memorial Music Library owns a Romance for violin and piano.

Web links

• University of Cincinnati - Henry Schradieck
• Sheet music and audio files by Henry Schradieck in the International Music Score Library Project