Izydor Lotto

Izydor Lotto around 1870

Izydor Lotto , also Isidor (born December 22, 1840 in Warsaw , Russian Empire ; died July 13, 1927 in Warsaw), was a Polish violin virtuoso .

Marie-Alexandre Alophe : Izydor Lotto (after 1853)

Grave in Wola

Life

From 1851 Izydor Lotto was a pupil of Lambert Massart in the violin playing of the French school at the Paris Conservatory and from 1853 a pupil of Ambroise Thomas in composition and of Napoléon-Henri Reber in harmony. In 1855 he won First Prize at the Conservatory.

He attracted attention and admiration for his bravura and technical mastery. He celebrated his first success in Germany in Leipzig . He was appointed grand-ducal solo player and chamber virtuoso in Weimar in 1862 . Eduard Hanslick saw Lotto's appearance in Vienna (around 1865) as an “adventurous echo of Paganine bravura”. He was traveling across Europe. A typhoid disease forced him to give up his virtuoso career in 1866 and he became a violin teacher at the Warsaw Music Institute . In 1872 Lotto, who had also written his own cadenzas for one or more concerts by Paganini, was the first violin teacher to go to the Strasbourg Conservatory in Alsace, Germany . From 1880 he was back in Warsaw, where he taught at the Music Institute until 1910. One of his students was Bronisław Huberman , Joseph Achron dedicated the Suite in the Old Style op. 21 to him in 1906 , and Victor Young came to Europe to study with him.

He died of old age in Warsaw and was buried in the Warsaw Jewish Cemetery in Wola .

Compositions in library holdings (selection)

Fantaisie sur l'hymne national russe pour violon avec orchester ou piano, op.1. Fr. Kistner, Leipzig 1861.

Concerto, op.2. Fr. Kistner, Leipzig undated

Fileuse. Romance sans paroles pour violon avec accompagnement de quintuor ou de piano, op.8. Fr. Kistner, Leipzig undated
Przy księżycu. Polka na fortepian. A. J. Wiśniakowski, Warsaw approx. 1888.

literature

Isidor Lotto (1840-1936). In: Adolph Kohut : Famous Israelite Men and Women in the Cultural History of Mankind. 1st volume. Payne, Leipzig-Reudnitz 1900.
A. Ehrlich (i.e. Albert Payne): Famous violinists past and present. Payne, Leipzig 1902.
Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 (reprint of the Czernowitz edition 1925 ff.), Volume 4, p. 191.

Web links

Commons : Izydor Lotto - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Izydor Lotto in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

↑ Izydor Lotto at Eufonium (Polish)
↑ ^a ^b Mai Kawabata: Paganini - The "demonic" Virtuoso. The Boydell Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-84383-756-5 , p. 98
^ Eduard Hanslick : History of concerts in Vienna. Volume 1. Braumüller, Vienna 1869, p. 418, p. 423
↑ Jascha Nemtsov : Encyclopedic Finding aid for the archive of the “New Jewish School”. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05786-8 , p. 134
^ Joseph Achron: 1st suite in the old style at Universal Edition

personal data
SURNAME	Lotto, Izydor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lotto, Isidore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish violin virtuoso, composer and violin teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	December 22, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH	July 13, 1927
Place of death	Warsaw

[1] Izydor Lotto at Eufonium (Polish)

[mai-2] Mai Kawabata: Paganini - The "demonic" Virtuoso. The Boydell Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-84383-756-5 , p. 98

[3] Eduard Hanslick : History of concerts in Vienna. Volume 1. Braumüller, Vienna 1869, p. 418, p. 423

[4] Jascha Nemtsov : Encyclopedic Finding aid for the archive of the “New Jewish School”. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05786-8 , p. 134

[5] Joseph Achron: 1st suite in the old style at Universal Edition