Luke David

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Lukas Florian David (born June 5, 1934 in Wels ) is an Austrian violinist .

Life

Lukas David was born in 1934 as the younger son of the composer and conductor Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977) and his wife Berta Eybl in Wels, Upper Austria. His older brother was the composer and conductor Thomas Christian David (1925-2006). He received his first violin lessons at the State University for Music in Leipzig. Later he was a student of Max Strub at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and Max Kergl at the Stuttgart State University of Music . He made his first public appearance at the age of 14. From 1949 to 1957 he studied in Tibor Varga's master class and was then his assistant at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold until 1959 . He also completed a master class with Nathan Milstein .

As a violinist he found international acclaim, concert tours took him through Europe, Asia, the USA, South America and South Africa. The focus of his work is the romantic and contemporary repertoire, so he also performed several of his father's solo concerts. He organizes the Lukas David Chamber Music Festival annually in the Peruvian capital Lima . In 1958 he received the sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

From 1959 David led a major class at the Vienna Music Academy . From 1966 to 1998 he was a professor at the Detmold University of Music .

literature

  • Barbara Boisits: David, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
  • Carl Dahlhaus , Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (Ed.): Brockhaus-Riemann-Musiklexikon. In four volumes and a supplementary volume . Volume 1: A-D . 2nd, revised and expanded edition, Schott, Mainz 1995, ISBN 3-7957-8396-8 , p. 298.
  • Franz Farga: violins and violinists. With 158 partly full-page pictures in the text . 5th improved and supplemented edition, A. Müller, Rüschlikon-Zürich 1960, p. 336.
  • Marc Honegger (ed.): The great lexicon of music . Volume 2: C to Elmendorff . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1982, ISBN 3-451-18052-9 .
  • SL, Rudolf Klein, Bernhard A. Kohl:  David. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 5 (Covell - Dzurov). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1115-2  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Axel Schiederjürgen (Red.): Kürschner's manual for musicians. Soloists, conductors, composers, university lecturers . 5th edition, Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3 , p. 80.

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personal data
SURNAME David, Luke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES David, Lukas Florian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Wels (city) , Upper Austria