Hugo Schwelb

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Hugo Schwelb (born June 7, 1877 in Rokitnitz , † after 1940) was a German violinist and composer .

Life

Little is known about its origin. His musical career began with his first violin lessons at the age of eight. From 1893 to 1897 he attended the Prague Conservatory. Since 1900 he has been active in various orchestras in Germany. Between 1903 and 1908 he was concertmaster and conductor of the Flora Orchestra in Cologne. He then stayed in Cologne and worked as a violin teacher, soloist and composer.

He can be proven to have lived in Cologne until 1940.

Works

  • 2 pieces for violin and piano, Op. 19 (Dresden: E. Hoffmann, 1904)
  • 4 performance pieces for violin and piano (Cologne: PJ Tonger, 1914)
  • 2 violin concerts
  • Chamber music for violin and piano
  • Piano pieces
  • Songs
  • Orchestral works

Only the first two works for violin and piano have been published. Details of the other works are not known.

literature

  • Jansa, Friedrich: German sound artists and musicians in words and pictures, 2nd edition, 1911.
  • Frank, Paul & Altmann, Wilhelm : Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstler-Lexikon, 1936, ISBN 3 7959 0083 2 .
  • Emery, Frederic B .: The Violin Concerto, Volume 2. 1928.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address books from Cologne and the surrounding area, issues 1915 to 1941/42. The next edition did not appear again until 1950, where it is no longer listed. Schwelb lived at Balthasarstrasse 7 for a long time, and in recent years at Lütticher Strasse 58.
  2. ^ Hofmeister, Friedrich: Musical-literary monthly reports, issues 1900–1940.
personal data
SURNAME Schwelb, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Rokitnitz
DATE OF DEATH after 1940