Karl Brückner (violinist)

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Karl Gustav Alexander Brückner (born May 5, 1893 in Gothenburg , † February 19, 1963 in Riga ) was a German - Swedish violinist and music teacher .

family

Karl Brückner came from a family originally based in Coburg . From there, his great-great-grandfather, born in 1747, emigrated to St. Petersburg . His grandfather was the historian Alexander Brückner , who died in Jena and was professor of Russian history at the University of Dorpat . His uncles were the Tübingen legal scholar Philipp Heck , the Viennese geographer Eduard Brückner and the Basel ophthalmologist Arthur Brückner , who had married Hertha Teichmüller, the daughter of the Dorpater philosopher Gustav Teichmüller .

Karl's father, Gustav Julius Brückner (1865–1927), had trained as a violinist in Dresden and from 1891 worked as a music teacher in Gothenburg . In the same year Gustav Brückner married Aina Erika Edlund (1863–1931) from Finland , with whom he moved to Leipzig as music director and from 1916 to Munich , where he died.

Karl Brückner married the concert pianist Eleonore (Lore) Klara Therese Winter (born February 8, 1897 in Munich) in 1920 in Munich. The marriage came from the son Ernst Helmut Brückner (1921–1942).

In his second marriage, he was married to Nora Edith Friedberg (1890-1970) from Berlin since 1922. From this connection the daughter Marianne Brückner (1922–2011) emerged, who married the violinist Markus Kremer (1898–1981) in Riga in 1945. Both son and grandson of Karl Brückner is the violinist Gidon Kremer .

Career

Karl Brückner received classical violin lessons first from his father, from 1901 from Hans Sitt at the Leipzig Conservatory . The Brückner, who is considered a child prodigy on the violin, attended the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium from 1904 , which he left in 1914 with the school leaving certificate.

After extensive concert tours, he studied musicology at the universities of Leipzig and Munich , "where he received his doctorate in 1921 with a thesis on Mossi , his environment and his sonatas ".

From 1921 to 1928 he was a teacher at the conservatory in Karlsruhe . He then worked as first concertmaster and music teacher in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg .

Because of his wife's Jewish descent , he emigrated to Estonia in 1935 . There he experienced the annexation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union in 1939 .

During the war he was in Alma-Ata , where his son from his first marriage died. From 1941 he got a job as a violinist at the Mossoviet Theater in Moscow . In 1945 he was appointed to the Riga State Conservatory, where he taught until his retirement in 1960.

Publications

In addition to essays on music history, Karl Brückner published works on violin pedagogy, including the 28 booklet series Psychology of Violin Playing (Bonn 1932ff) and Scale Studies (Riga 1948)

literature

  • Brückner, Karl Gustav Alexander . In: Erich Hermann Müller von Asow (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon. W. Limpert, Dresden 1929
  • Brückner, Karl Gustav Alexander . In: Willibald Gurlitt (Ed.): Riemann Musiklexikon . Person part AK. 12th edition. B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1959.
  • Erik Amburger : Germans in the state, economy and society of Russia: the Amburger family in St. Petersburg 1770–1920 . Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1986.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He was a Swedish citizen. See doctoral files from Leipzig University, Leipzig University Archives
  2. ↑ a b Erik Amburger, p. 222 ff.
  3. ↑ Genealogical information: Max Gschneidinger, Munich under: Brückner-Winter
  4. ^ Johann Hauptmann: Alphabetical index of former Carolaner . In: Twenty-five anniversary of the Queen Carola High School in Leipzig in 1927 . Leipzig 1927, p. 21
  5. ↑ Riemann Musiklexikon , p. 349
personal data
SURNAME Brückner, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brückner, Karl Gustav Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swedish violinist, music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Gothenburg
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1963
Place of death Riga