Josef Märkl

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Josef Märkl (born January 16, 1928 in Vilshofen an der Donau , † October 14, 2010 in Seehausen am Staffelsee ) was a German violinist , composer and teacher. He was a member of the radio orchestras in Munich, Stuttgart and Baden-Baden. Most recently he was concertmaster of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra and first violinist of the Märkl Quartet .

Life

Josef Märkl was born in Vilshofen an der Donau in Lower Bavaria in 1928 . He studied privately with Hedi Gigler , Roman Schimmer and Heinz Stanske as well as with Wilhelm Stross at the State University of Music in Munich .

At the age of 17, 1945/46, he became a member (1st violin) of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich. From 1946 to 1950 he played with the Great Orchestra of Radio Stuttgart (renamed in 1949 as Symphony Orchestra of Radio Stuttgart and the Süddeutscher Rundfunk) under Hans Müller-Kray . In 1947 he won the competition for young artists ( Radio Stuttgart ). From 1950 to 1956 he worked for the symphony orchestra of the Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden, led by Hans Rosbaud . In 1958 he became special concertmaster and director of studies with the Hilchenbacher Siegerland Orchestra under Peter Richter de Rangenier and Thomas Ungar . From 1962 to 1968 he was engaged as a director of studies and concertmaster with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra , whose chief conductors were Jean Martinon and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos .

From 1964 onwards he played chamber music as the successor to Oscar C. Yatco on the 2nd violin in the famous Stross Quartet . In addition to his teacher, his colleagues included Gérard Ruymen (viola) and Rudolf Metzmacher (violoncello). Together with Metzmacher, he founded the Märkl Quartet in Cologne in 1968 , with which he continued the tradition of the Stross Quartet in the role of Primarius. His younger son Key-Thomas Märkl was also a member of the string quartet for a time. Josef Märkl was also the founder and artistic director of the Wilhelm Kempff Ensemble . Märkl was involved in several radio and record productions.

For more than 25 years, Märkl was a lecturer for violin, viola and string quartet playing at the Rheinische Musikschule (from 1962 Cologne Conservatory). He was a member of the European String Teachers Association . At Schott Music he published multi-volume compendiums for violin and viola.

He had three children with a Japanese pianist. His older son Jun Märkl (* 1959) became a conductor, Key-Thomas Märkl (* 1963) a violinist. The latter is in a relationship with the writer and composer Kim Märkl . Until his death in 2010, Josef Märkl was with Brigitte Märkl (1931–2011), b. Jaenisch, married.

Works

Teaching works

  • Violin technique intensive (3 volumes, Schott, 1999/2000)
  • Volume 1: Fitness training
  • Volume 2: Bow Technique
  • Volume 3: "Fit in 20 minutes" exercise exercises
  • Viola technique intensive (2 volumes, Schott, 2004/05)
  • Volume 1: Fitness training and archery technique
  • Volume 2: Warm-up exercises for 30 “wake-up” programs

Compositions

  • Carneval of the fingers for violin and piano. 3 etudes for the 2nd and 3rd finger (Schott, 2001)
  • Paraphrases on Paganini's Barucaba Variations for solo viola (Varner, 2006)

Discography (selection)

literature

  • Adrian Gaster (ed.): International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory. 8th Edition, Melrose Press, Cambridge 1977, p. 548.
  • Ernest Kay (ed.): Men of Achievement . 6th edition, Melrose Press, Cambridge 1979, ISBN 0-900332-50-6 , p. 457.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stegmüller states in his documentation from 1964 to 1966, cf. Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 158; MGG Online dates its membership to 1964/65, cf. Norbert Hornig:  Stross Quartet. In: MGG Online (subscription required).
personal data
SURNAME Märkl, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist, composer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilshofen on the Danube
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 2010
Place of death Seehausen on the Staffelsee