Henryk Szeryng

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Henryk Szeryng (1964)

Henryk Szeryng [ ˈʃɛrɨŋk ] (born September 22, 1918 in Warsaw ; † March 3, 1988 in Kassel ) was a Polish-Mexican violinist, violin teacher, editor, composer and diplomat, who lived in Mexico since 1946 and since October 21, 1948 had Mexican citizenship.

Life

His mother gave him his first piano lessons, but the child soon preferred the violin. Bronisław Huberman heard him and recommended that he be sent to Carl Flesch in Berlin for training (1928–32). Henryk Szeryng made his debut in 1933. In 1935 the 17-year-old violinist played the violin concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven in Warsaw under the direction of Bruno Walter . He then continued his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris until 1939 .

After the beginning of World War II , he volunteered for the Polish army on French soil and became a liaison officer. Due to his language skills (Szeryng spoke eight languages) he also worked as an interpreter for the Polish government in exile . He often gave concerts in front of Allied soldiers and gave charity concerts.

During a stay in Mexico City , he got the offer to take over the string department at the University of Mexico . He did so and became a Mexican citizen in 1948. It was not until 1954 that he started his concert career, which he continued until his death. As part of a concert tour with the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra , Henryk Szeryng played Johannes Brahms' violin concerto on March 1, 1988 in Kassel . On the night of March 1st to 2nd, he fell into a coma after a brain hemorrhage. He did not wake up and died in the morning hours of March 3, 1988.

The Art of Violin Playing: Effect and Meaning

The violinist was an interpreter with an extensive repertoire and gained worldwide recognition. He recorded a large number of records with the violin concertos by Bach , Mozart , Beethoven, Brahms , Schumann , Tchaikovsky , Sibelius , Mendelssohn and Paganini , all violin sonatas by Beethoven and Mozart with Ingrid Haebler , selected violin sonatas by Beethoven and Mozart with Arthur Rubinstein and two recordings of the complete sonatas and partitas for violin solo by Bach. He received a Grammy in 1975 and 1976 for his collaboration with Pierre Fournier and Arthur Rubinstein . For his recording of the Brahms Concerto in 1959 with Pierre Monteux , he received the Grand Prix du Disque . His recordings of Bach's solo sonatas and partitas are still regarded as setting standards today. In the video The Art Of Violin, the important young violinist Hilary Hahn demonstrated that Szeryng's Bach recordings are trend-setting for her own Bach interpretation.

Gravestone (detail) of the grave of Henryk Szeryng in the Monaco cemetery . The notes are the end of the Chaconne from Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV 1004 with the artist's fingerings and line markings.
Henryk Szeryng
His kindness was equal to his art

Henryk Szeryng's grave is in Monaco Cemetery , his former European residence. The epitaph reads: Sa Bonté était égale à son Art . The line of music above the inscription is the end of the Ciaconna from Partita No. 2 for solo violin in D minor BWV 1004 by Johann Sebastian Bach in the Henryk Szeryng edition.

Waltraud Szeryng (née Büscher), the artist's widow, donated her husband's estate to the Library of Congress in Washington.

Honors

literature

  • Joachim Hartnack: Great violinists of our time . Rütten + Loening Verlag, Munich 1967, pp. 244-250.

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Discography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Some reference works, such as B. MGG (= music in the past and present ) indicate Żelazowa Wola as the place of birth . This information is incorrect. From the Polish side (see the article Henryk Szeryng in the Polish-language Wikipedia) it is assumed that the place of birth of Chopin near Warsaw was chosen earlier for advertising reasons. Correct information u. a. in: Szeryng . In: Riemann Musiklexikon 12th edition. Schott, Mainz 1961, person section L-Z. and Frank, Altmann: Szeryng . In: Abbreviated Tonkünstler Lexicon . 15th edition. Heinrichshofen's Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1978. Part 2 / Volume 2: L — Z.
    The tombstone in the Monaco cemetery also indicates Warsaw as the place of birth.
  2. ↑ Szeryng's second European residence was Paris.
  3. ↑ dt. His kindness was equal to his art .
  4. ↑ It is available to the public in the music department under the name Henryk Szeryng Collection. It is a collection of over 11,000 items ('items') containing documents of various kinds: unpublished compositions and arrangements, letters from famous contemporaries in the music world, documents from many years of activity as a violin teacher and the scores from which Szeryng played, with handwritten notes, fingerings and line labels.
  5. ^ Inscription Deutschordenshof, passage: Henryk Szeryng 1971, accessed on June 7, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Szeryng, Henryk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-Mexican violinist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Żelazowa Wola
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1988
Place of death kassel