Hermann Csillag

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Hermann Csillag , actually Ármin Csillag (* 1852 in Bakony-Telek near Veszprém , Kingdom of Hungary , † after June 1922 probably in Vienna ) was a Hungarian violinist and one of the teachers and sponsors of Jean Sibelius .

Life

Csillag received lessons from Károly Huber in 1863 and from Dávid Ridley-Kohne in 1864. Then he went to Joseph Boehm in Vienna. There he studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Jakob Grün and Josef Hellmesberger senior . He was then a member of the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra for six years. He later lived temporarily in Baden-Baden and then went to Düsseldorf , where he became concertmaster in the Allgemeine Musikverein. During his time there he gave a much-noticed concert in Bonn , organized by the Beethoven Association, at which he performed, among other things, the Violin Concerto No. 11 in G major by Louis Spohr . Further stations were Hamburg and, from 1876, Rotterdam , where it can still be proven in 1882.

From autumn 1887 he taught at the Music Institute in Helsinki the young Jean Sibelius , to 1890 and at the 1888 Ferruccio Busoni worked, the Sibelius promoted equally. On April 13, 1889, Csillag played together with the musicians Karl Fredrik Wasenius and Wilhelm Renck at the premiere of the suite in A major for violin, viola and cello by Sibelius at the Helsinki Music Institute. The first performance of Sibelius' string quartet in A minor with the same musicians followed on May 29 , supplemented by Wilhelm Santé (2nd violin). Sibelius described Csillag as a first class violinist as well as an excellent teacher.

Most recently, Csillag lived in Vienna, where he presumably also died.

literature

  • Glenda Dawn Goss, Sibelius: A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland , Chicago 2009, pp. 72f. ( Digitized version )
  • Miklós Rakos: A klasszikus magyar hegedűjáték kezdetei: A Viotti-Rode-Böhm Iskola. In: zeneKar. Budapest 2015, issue 5, pp. 24–28.
  • Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski , The violin and its masters , Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1883, p. 542f. ( Digitized version )
    • Ditto, 6th edition, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1920, p. 481f. ( Digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magyarország és a Nagyvilág . Edition of June 4, 1875, p. 283.

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personal data
SURNAME Csillag, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Csillag, Ármin (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Bakony-Telek near Veszprém , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH after June 1922
Place of death Vienna