Karl Juljewitsch Dawidow

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Karl Juljewitsch Dawidow

Karl Juljewitsch Dawidow ( Russian Карл Юльевич Давидов, also Carl Davidoff ; * March 3 July / March 15,  1838 greg. In Goldingen , Courland ; † February 14 jul. / February 26,  1889 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian Composer , conductor , cellist and music teacher.

Life

Dawidow was born in the then Russian province of Courland . His studies took him to Moscow to Heinrich Schmidt and to Karl Schuberth in Petersburg , where he studied cello; later he went to the Leipzig Conservatory , where he completed his training with Friedrich Grützmacher in 1859. From 1860 to 1862 Dawidow was his successor as solo violon cellist at the Leipzig Gewandhaus and also as a cello teacher at the conservatory until he returned to Russia in the early 1860s. From 1862 to 1882 he held the position of solo cellist at the Imperial Theaters in St. Petersburg and took over a professorship at the St. Petersburg Conservatory . From 1876 until his retirement in 1887 he was the director of this conservatory. In the eyes of his contemporaries he was valued primarily as a cellist and director of the Conservatory. Tchaikovsky called him the “Tsar among cellists” and also dedicated his “ Capriccio Italy ”, op. 45 , to him . Dawidov's own works were less popular.

His compositional work includes instrumental concerts primarily for cello, ballads , songs , but also works for strings and piano. Dawidow also began to compose an opera, probably due to lack of time he left it unfinished. He gave the libretto to Tchaikovsky, who used it for his opera “ Mazeppa ”. He also wrote a violoncello school. One of his best-known works was the salon piece “Am Springbrunnen”.

A Stradivari cello was named after Dawidow .

Reception, discography

The cello concertos are of great virtuosity; this is probably why they were rarely performed in the past. In 1995 the cellist Marina Tarasova recorded the cello concertos 1 and 2 (Alto label). In 1997 the cellist Wen-Sinn Yang played Dawidow's cello concertos 1 and 2 (La Vergne Classics label). In 2007, the classical label cpo, which specializes in classical first recordings, released this recording.

In 2009 the cello concertos 3 and 4 could also be played for the first time after finding the sheet music for these works after a long search. These two CDs made Dawidow a little better known in German-speaking countries.

Works

Compositions

  • Violoncello Concerto No. 1 in B minor, op.5 (1859)
  • Fantasy on Russian Folk Songs for Violoncello and Orchestra, op.7
  • Allegro de Concert in A minor for violoncello and orchestra, op.11 (1860)
  • Violoncello Concerto No. 2 in A minor. op. 14 (1863)
  • Violoncello Concerto No. 3 in D major, op.18 (1868)
  • “The Gifts of Terek”, symphonic poem, op. 21
  • Ballad in G minor for violoncello and orchestra, op.25 (1875)
  • Violoncello Concerto No. 4 in E minor, op.31 (1878)
  • Orchestral suite, op.37
  • String sextet, op.35
  • String quartet, op 38
  • Piano quintet, op.40
  • “Am Springbrunnen” for violoncello and piano, op. 20/2
and numerous other solo and salon pieces for violoncello, as well
  • "Poltava", opera based on Pushkin (started 1876, unfinished)

Fonts

  • School of cello playing . Leipzig 1888, Moscow 1947

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ jpc.de: [2]
  3. ↑ jpc.de: [3]

literature

  • Brockhaus-Riemann Musiklexikon edited by Carl Dahlhaus, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht and Kurt Oehl. Mainz 1995, volume 1, p. 300.
  • Eckhardt van den Hoogen: Carl Davidoff - Cello Concertos 3 & 4 . In: Booklet for cpo 777 432-2, pp. 5–11 (2009/10)
  • Helmut Scheunchen: Lexicon of German Baltic Music. Harro von Hirschheydt publishing house, Wedemark-Elze 2002. ISBN 3-7777-0730-9 . Pp. 51-53.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Dawidow, Karl Juljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carl Davidoff; Davidow, Karl; Dawydow, Karl Juljewitsch; Dawidow, Karl Juljewitsch; Dawidhof, Karl Juljewitsch; Davidoff, Charles; Davidow, Carl; Davydov, Karl Julevic; Давыдов, Карл Юльевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer, conductor, cellist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuldīga
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1889
Place of death Moscow