Leó Weiner

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Leó Weiner

Leó Weiner (born April 16, 1885 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; † September 13, 1960 there ) was an influential Jewish- Hungarian music teacher and composer.

Life

Weiner studied with Hans Koessler from 1901 to 1906 . He received several prizes for the Serenade op. 3 he wrote during his studies . Further awards followed. After a brief activity as a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and some sponsored study trips (Venice, Paris, Munich, Berlin), he was professor of composition and chamber music at the Budapest Music Academy from 1908 to 1949 . Even after his retirement he continued to teach. His most important students were Géza Anda , Antal Doráti , Andor Foldes , György Kurtág , György Sebők , Georg Solti and Tibor Varga .

Weiner's preference, which shaped his own work, was the Classical and Romantic periods with Ludwig van Beethoven , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Georges Bizet . Added to this was his inclination towards Hungarian folk music, which often gives his supposedly “good” pieces a fiery and clownish note. Weiner wrote, among other things, five divertimenti , a symphonic poem , a Passacaglia , two violin sonatas, a concertino for piano and orchestra, three string quartets and piano music. He also wrote music didactic works. Weiner's fox dance (played four hands) , the 2nd movement from his Divertimento No. 1 op. 20 for strings, is very popular among pianists .

In the 1920s he was hailed as "Hungary's Mendelssohn". Some of his (chamber music) works are still performed.

literature

  • Alfred Sendrey: Bibliography of Jewish music . Columbia University Press, 1951
  • Stanley Sadie: The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians . Macmillan, 1980
  • Darryl Lyman: Great Jews in Music . JD Publishers, 1986

Web links

Commons : Léo Weiner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aryeh Oron 2009 , accessed January 17, 2012
  2. ↑ Audio sample , accessed on January 17, 2012
  3. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: without page title )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.youtube.com
  4. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: without page title )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.collegium-a-rhythmicum.de
personal data
SURNAME Weiner, Leó
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian music teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1960
Place of death Budapest