Licco Amar

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Licco Amar as a child, around 1900

Licco Amar (born December 4, 1891 in Budapest , † July 19, 1959 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Hungarian violinist.

Life

Licco Amar was the child of the Macedonian businessman Michael Amar and Regina Strakosch. Amar studied with Emil Baré at the Music Academy of his birthplace and went to Berlin in 1911 for further study at the Academy of Music to Henri Marteau . From 1912 to 1924 Marteau accepted him as second violinist in his string quartet , in which the cellist Hugo Becker also played. In 1912 Amar received the Mendelssohn Prize . From 1916 to 1920 he was concertmaster with the Berlin Philharmonic and from 1920 to 1923 he moved to the National Theater in Mannheim . His own string quartet, which he founded in 1922 as the Amar Quartet , belonged to Paul Hindemith as a violist and, for a time, until its dissolution in 1929, Walter Kaspar , Rudolf Hindemith and Maurits Frank . For Hindemith's compositions he arranged various world premieres, including a. at the Donaueschinger Musiktage , and the latter dedicated the sonata op. 31,1 to him. He also promoted the composer Erich Walter Sternberg . In 1925 he and Emmy Matterstock married.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he was no longer able to work in Germany for racist reasons. He emigrated to France and from there to Turkey in 1934, where he was able to teach at the Ankara Conservatory for twenty years from 1935 . In 1957 he received a call to the Freiburg Music Academy .

literature

  • Lemma in MGG 1, p. 571f ( Giselher Schubert )
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss , (Ed.), Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 , Vol II, 1 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10087-6 , p. 24.
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 (reprint of the Czernowitz edition 1925). Volume 7, p. 512.
  • Arnold Reisman: Post-Ottoman Turkey: classical European music & opera , Charleston, 2008.
  • Angelika Rieber: "There is a world to be built here ..." Biographical information on the violinist Licco Amar , in: Hindemith-Jahrbuch, Mainz 2009.
  • Berliner Philharmoniker: Variations with Orchestra - 125 Years of the Berliner Philharmoniker , Volume 2, Biographies and Concerts, Verlag Henschel, May 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, Volume II (Alr-Az), 2nd ed., Thomson Gale, Detroit, 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865930-5 , p. 31

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personal data
SURNAME Amar, Licco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1959
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau