Marie Hall
Marie Pauline Hall (born April 8, 1884 in Newcastle upon Tyne , England , † November 11, 1956 in Cheltenham ) was an English violinist .
Life
Marie Hall received her first lessons from her father, a harpist in the Carl Rosa Opera Company orchestra . In addition, she was taught by a local teacher, Hildegarde Werner. Marie moved through the country with her family and spent a few years in Guarlford, a small village near Malvern . When she was nine years old, Émile Sauret heard her play and unsuccessfully recommended that her parents send her to the Royal Academy of Music in London. She went on to study violin playing among other well-known teachers, including Edward Elgar , August Wilhelmj in London, Max Mossel in Birmingham and Professor Kruse in London. On the advice of Jan Kubelík , she went to Prague in 1901 to his old tutor Otakar Ševčík .
She made her first public appearance in Prague in 1902, in Vienna in January 1903 , and made her debut in London on February 16, 1902, each with great success. According to her own account, she learned the playing technique from her teacher Ševčík. Although she didn't look very strong physically, she completed long tours with demanding programs without showing any signs of exhaustion.
Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote The Lark Ascending for Marie Hall and dedicated it to her. She first performed the piece in 1921 at Queen's Hall under Adrian Boult .
In 1911 Hall married her manager Edward Baring. The couple lived in Cheltenham and had a daughter, Pauline. For the last few years of her life she lived in Cheltenham in a large Victorian mansion, “Inveresk”, on Eldorado Road. Marie is described as a "lovely woman, very small and happy and with a great sense of humor". She died in Cheltenham on November 11, 1956 at the age of 72.
From 1905 - for over fifty years - Hall played a Stradivarius violin, built in 1709, named after Giovanni Battista Viotti , although it was probably only briefly in his possession. At a Sotheby’s auction in 1988, the instrument fetched the record price of £ 473,000 . Today the violin is called “Viotti-Marie Hall” (or “Marie Hall” for short) and is kept in the Chimei Museum in Taiwan .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tony Faber: Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection . Random House Publishing Group, 2012.
- ^ Violin by Antonio Stradivari, 1709 ex “Viotti-Marie Hall” Digital Violin Archive Project, Chi Mei Museum
literature
- Henry C. Matthew (Ed.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 24. University Press, Oxfor 2004, ISBN 0-19-861374-1 .
- Paula Gillett: Musical Women in England 1870-1914. "Encroaching on all man's privileges". Macmillan, Basingstoke 2000, ISBN 0-333-91528-3 .
- Hadden J Cuthbert: Modern Musicians. A book for players, singers and listeners. TN Foulis, London 1914.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hall, Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hall, Mary Pauline (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newcastle upon Tyne , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1956 |
| Place of death | Cheltenham |