Karl Prill
Karl Prill (born October 22, 1864 in Berlin , † August 18, 1931 in Klosterneuburg ) was a German violinist . He is the brother of the cellist Paul Prill and the flautist Emil Prill .
Prill received his first violin lessons from his father, the violinist and military bandmaster Carl Prill (1838–76). He later studied violin with Joseph Joachim in Berlin. From 1882 to 1885 he played the violin in various Berlin orchestras. From 1883 to 1885 he was concertmaster in Benjamin Bilse's orchestra in Berlin. At that time he was already on concert tours in Germany, Russia, Sweden and Denmark. From 1895 to 1891 he was concertmaster in Magdeburg and from 1891 to 1897 first concertmaster in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra . In 1897, after his first engagement at the Bayreuth Festival , Gustav Mahler won him over as concertmaster for the Court Opera and the Philharmonic in Vienna. He also worked as a violin professor at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, which later became the Vienna Music Academy . Together with the cellist Joseph Sulzer he founded the Prill Quartet , with which he made numerous concert tours through Europe.
literature
- Willibald Gurlitt (editor): Riemann Musik Lexikon, personal section L – Z, Mainz 1961, page 438, article "Prill, Karl"
- Christa Harten: Prill, Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 280.
- Uwe Harten : Prill, Karl. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The Riemann Musik Lexikon lists Vienna as the place of death.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prill, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Prill, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 18, 1931 |
| Place of death | Klosterneuburg |