Ljerko Spiller

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Ljerko Spiller (born July 21, 1908 in Crikvenica , then Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia ; † November 9, 2008 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentinian violinist, conductor and music teacher of Croatian origin.

Life

Spiller studied at the Zagreb Music Academy until 1927 and at the École Normale de Musique de Paris until 1930 . His teachers were u. a. Jacques Thibaud , George Enescu and Diran Alexanian . From 1930 to 1935 he taught at the École Normale de Musique in Paris.

He was also a member of a chamber ensemble from 1928 to 1935 under the direction of Alfred Cortot and published reviews and articles in the magazines Le Monde Musical and Le Courrier de Musique . In 1935 he emigrated to Buenos Aires as a Jew before the emergence of National Socialism . In the same year he won a prize at the International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition .

In Buenos Aires, Spiller founded a chamber orchestra, the youth orchestra of the Collegium Musicum and the women's orchestra of Radio El Mundo . He also worked as chief conductor of the Radio Nacional youth orchestra and taught from 1956 to 1973 at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata .

In 1989 Spiller received the Premio Conex from the Fundación Konex . After serving as a juror at international violin competitions in Zagreb and Geneva in the 1970s and 1980s, he was a member of the jury at the violin competition at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in 1991 . The following year he was awarded by the Asociación de Críticos Musicales-Pedagogo . In 1999 he became president of the jury for the award of the Premio Conex .

Spiller published music pedagogical works and taught his own students until 1990. Antonio Spiller was known as a violinist by his sons , Andrés Spiller works as an oboist and conductor in Buenos Aires.

Fonts

  • El pequeño violinista . 1943.
  • Iniciación al violín en group . 1980.
  • Children learn to play the violin. A new method for beginners on the violin. For children from 6 or 7 to around 10 years; in group or individual lessons . Pan music store, Zurich 1982.

literature

  • Rodolfo Arizaga: Enciclopedia de la música Argentina . Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires 1971.
  • Helmut Rosner, Burchard Bulling, Paul Frank, Florian Noetzel: Concise Tonkünstler Lexicon . Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1974.
  • Miroslav Krleza (Ed.): Leksikon Jugoslavenske Muzike . Jugoslavenski Leksikografski Zavod, Zagreb 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silvia Glocer: Jewish Composers Exiled in Argentina During the Nazi Period (1933–1945) (English; accessed on May 9, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Spiller, Ljerko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian violinist, conductor and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Crikvenica , then the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 2008
Place of death Buenos Aires