Mikhail Mikhailov

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Michail Michailow (born September 14, 1888 in Tschornobyl ; † December 23, 1923 ) actually: Finkelstein, was a Russian-Jewish violinist and conductor .

Career

Michail Michailow was born to a kulak in Chornobyl , Ukraine , his maiden name was Finkelstein. His musical talent was discovered early on. He received his first violin lessons from the concertmaster (J. Shura?) Polischuk from Kiev , whose daughter he married in 1906. From 1908 he went to Berlin and from September 1911 studied at the Stern Conservatory with Alexander Fudemann. Alongside his studies, he worked as a violinist to make a living. He put together his own ensemble and thus denied longer engagements in the Admirals Caféand in the Princess Café in Berlin. Here Finkelstein took on the stage name Michail Michailow, possibly because the Jewish-sounding name Finkelstein would have stood in the way of a successful career.

Nevertheless, the name M. Finkelstein can still be found on the unbranded label (similar to the one with the no.125.103: Nocturno by Chopin, see images) of a 30 cm record, on one side of which the meditation from Thais by Jules Massenet (mat 5170), on which the serenade by (Gabriel) Pierné (mat. No. 5168) is recorded, played as a violin solo by M. Finkelstein . The piano accompanist remains anonymous. The plate comes from the former Paul Sauerlaender collection and is currently kept in the German Film Museum in Frankfurt / Main.

With his band he made his first recordings for the Lindström brand Parlophon from around 1912 . He played his own compositions, but also classical ones like Michail Glinka's Der Zweifel , in a trio with Armin Liebermann on the cello and Friedrich Schmidt-Marlissa on the piano, Fritz Kreisler's Viennese Melodie or Edvard Grieg's Norwegian Dance No.2 .

On May 11, 1912 his son Mordechaj was born, who later also became a violinist.

On January 22, 1913, a benefit concert "for the popular Kapellmeister and Russian violin king Mikhailov with a reinforced orchestra with the kind assistance of Kapellmeister Julius Einödshofer" took place in the Admirals Café. On July 1, 1914, Finkelstein completed his studies in Berlin. “Due to his early achievements as a violin player” he was awarded the Gustav Hollaender medal in parting .

When the First World War broke out, Finkelstein fled to neutral Sweden with other Ukrainian musicians. Here he was able to continue his career as a violin soloist unmolested. At concerts in Stockholm he was accompanied on the piano by Nathaniel Broman and Kerstin Sondbaum-Strömberg, among others .

After the end of the war he returned to Berlin. In an event of the Russian Club Berlin on September 29, 1919 he played in the Kaisersaal of the Rheingold wine house in the performance of Artur Rubinstein's Romance ; Soloists were also Lidija Potozkaja and Giorgij Kjakscht (1873-1936), ballet masters of the former Kaiserl. Theatre. While he continued to cultivate the classical repertoire on the Parlophone label, he also made recordings as a dance orchestra, director M. Michailow for Grammophon and its subsidiary brands Polyphon and Reneyphon, mostly with concert pieces such as the popular Toselli Serenade or the popular Russian Romance I sympathize with me / Pozalej from NR Bakalainikow, but also with ragtime-influenced dance music, e.g. B. with Kitty (on Gr 13 674), with Hitchy-Koo , or the One-step Waitin 'for the Robert E. Lee , (all c. 1920).

Mikhailov died of tuberculosis on December 23, 1923, at the age of only 35.

Sound documents (selection)

Parlophone
  • Parlophone P.1040 – I (mx. 2–2483) Solveig's Sang from “Peer Gynt” (Edvard Grieg op. 23) M. Michailow, from left with piano. Up. July 22, 1919
  • Parlophone P.1040 – II (mx. 2–2484) Poème (Zdenko Fibich, op. 41) M. Michailow, from left with piano. Up. July 22, 1919
  • Parlophone P.1319 – I (mx. 2–5733) Si vous l'aviez compris (Denza - Bordése) M. Michailow, from left and F. Schmidt-Marlissa, p., Open. February 15, 1922
  • Parlophone P.1319 – II (mx. 2–5736) La serenata (Tosti) M. Michailow, from left and F. Schmidt-Marlissa, p., Add. February 15, 1922
  • Parlophone P.1356 – I (mx. 2–5734) The Doubt (Mihail Glinka) M. Michailow, from left, Armin Liebermann from left, F. Schmidt-Marlissa, p., Open. February 15, 1922
  • Parlophone P.1356 – II (mx. 2–5737) Pour un baiser - Mélodie (Paolo Tosti) M. Michailow, from left, Armin Liebermann from left, F. Schmidt-Marlissa, p., Up. February 15, 1922
  • Parlophone P.1325 – I (mx. 2–5763) Souvenir in D (Franz Drdla) M. Michailow, from left with orchestra. Up. March 15, 1922.
  • Parlophone P.1340 – II (mx. 2–5766) Gavotte Michailow (M. Michailow) M. Michailow, from left, with orchestra. Up. March 15, 1922.
Deutsche Grammophon
  • Gramophone 13 674 (mx. 377 at) Kitty. Fox trot by René Richard Schmal. Dance Orchestra, Direction M. Mikhailov.
  • Gramophone 13 683 (mx. 428 ar) Hiawatha. Ballroom dance (G. Urban) dance orchestra, direction M. Michailow.
  • Gramophone 15 765 (mx. 68 ap) Célébre Serenata, Boston Waltz (Enrico Toselli) dance orchestra, direction M. Michailow.
  • Grammophon 15 765 (mx. 186 as) Waitin 'For The Robert E. Lee. One-step (Lewis F. Muir & M. Abrams) dance orchestra, direction M. Michailow.
  • Gramophone 15 775 (mx. 41 on) Hitchy-Koo (Lewis F. Muir) dance orchestra, direction M. Michailow.
Polyphonic
  • Polyphon 50 061 (mx. 99 as) Have pity on me. Soot. Romance (Pawlowicz) M. Michailow, from left with orchestra.
  • Polyphon 50 061 (mx. 100 as) Berceuse tendre (Daniderff) M. Michailow, from left with orchestra.
  • Polyphon 50 063 (mx. 43 ap) Serenade from the ballet "The Millions of the Harlequin". M. Mikhailov with artist ensemble.
  • Polyphon 50 063 (mx. 44 ap) "Song without words" (Tschaikowsky) M. Michailow with artist ensemble.

Audio samples

  • [7] Blue Adriatic. Foxtrot (A. Rebner): Dance Orchestra, Direction M. Michailow. Gramophone 13 676 (mx. 14 098 r), after 1918
  • [8] Waitin 'For The Robert E. Lee. One-step (Lewis F. Muir & M. Abrams) dance orchestra, direction M. Michailow. Gramophone 15 765 (mx. 186 as) (30 cm)

Illustrations

  • Favorite label F 226 – I (F 016) Dragonfly dances by the Orchester Polischuk: Dixie Land [9] (also sound sample)
  • Favorite label F 226 – II (F 017) Dragonfly dances by the Orchester Polischuk: Smiles [10] (also sound sample)
  • Nameless label 125.103: Nocturno (Chopin) violin solo, performed by M. Michailow, with orchestral accompaniment. Odessa. [11]
  • Parlophone label P.1319 – I (mx. 5733) Si vous m'aviez compris (Denza) Solo de violon M. Michailow / P.1319-II (mx. 5736) La serenata (F. Paolo Tosti) Solo de violon M. Mikhailov. [12]
  • Parlophone label P.1340 – II (mx. 5766) Gavotte Michailow. Mikhailov, violin solo with orchestra. [13]
  • Polyphonic label no. 50 066 (mxx. 120.012 and 120.013) Fantasy from “Tosca” 1./2. Part of Puccini. M. Mikhailov with artist ensemble. [14]
  • Gramophone label No. 15,765 (mx. 186 as) Waitin 'For The Robert E. Lee. One-step by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrams. Dance Orchestra, Direction M. Mikhailov. [15]

literature

  • Horst JP Bergmeier, Rainer E. Lotz: The riddle of M. Michailow. In: Fox at 78. Issue 19 - Spring 2000, pp. 16-19.
  • HBi [d. i. Herbert Birett]: Paul Sauerlaender Collection. In: Lexicon of film terms. [16]
  • Simon Géza Gábor, Wolfgang Hirschenberger: Ragtime in the kuk monarchy. Essay 2008, (with sound samples) reproduced at grammophon-platten.de [17]
  • Wolfgang Hirschenberger: Cakewalk in the cafe. A brief history of ragtime in Austria. In: K. Krüger (Ed.): Fox auf 78. Nr. 3 (spring 1987), p. 46-47
  • Horst Heinz Lange: Jazz in Germany: the German jazz chronicle until 1960. Edition 2, illustrated; Hildesheim, Verlag G. Olms, 1996.
  • Horst Heinz Lange: The German "78er": Discography of jazz and hot dance music 1903–1958. Berlin, Colloquium Verlag, 1966, length 775 pages.
  • Rainer E. Lotz: German Ragtime and Prehistory Of Jazz. Chigwell, Essex, England: Storyville Publications, 1985. ISBN 0902391089 .
  • Stengel-Gerigk = Lexicon of Jews in Music. With a list of titles of Jewish works. Compiled on behalf of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP on the basis of official, party-officially checked documents, Theo Stengel, Herbert Gerigk (edit.), (= Publications of the NSDAP Institute for Research on the Jewish Question, Vol. 2), Berlin: Bernhard Hahnefeld, 1941.
  • Christian Zwarg: on line discography PARLOPHON (Matrix Numbers - 2–5500 to 2–6999: German) [18] (PDF; 1.0 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Michailow was the usual abbreviation on the plate labels, next to it often only "Michailow", e.g. B. on Parlophone label P.1340-II. Full name is not used.
  2. ↑ This Ukrainian-Jewish musician later led the orchestras on many Beka recordings in the 1920s without being mentioned on the label ; this honor was only given to him on a few favorite records, e.g. B. on Favorite F.211 – II (F 08/30 415) Mister Mendelssohn , Ragtime by Leo Beresowski, from May 12, 1919, or on F.226 – II (F 017 / 1–30 461) Dixie Land, American One-Step by Cobb & Gumble , both from the series Libelle-Tänze by the Orchester Polischuk , cf. [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / gramofon.nava.hu  
  3. ↑ a photo postcard cafes on Kurfürstendamm no. 16 from the collection of Prof. Giesbrecht, Osnabruck university, in [2]
  4. ↑ cf. Christian Zwarg: on line discography Parlophone
  5. ↑ cf. Entry at LexM .: Mordechaj Finkelstein, later: Max Michailow , b. on May 11, 1912 in Berlin, Germany, orchestral musician, Geiger (2007, updated Jan 19, 2012) [3] ; Stengel-Gerigk sp. 74 and 208 call him "Morduch (Max)"; Mikhailov Sr. is not listed there.
  6. ↑ composer a. Kapellmeister (1863–1930), from 1911 to 1921 at the Admirals-Palast, cf. ÖBL I, p. 234 [4] , Operons [5] , Luise-berlin [6]
  7. ↑ a b cf. Bergmeier-Lotz p. 16
  8. ↑ cf. Lotz: German Ragtime ... p. 192
  9. ↑ on this piece and its composer: Simon Géza Gábor, Wolfgang Hirschenberger: Ragtime in der kuk Monarchie. Essay (with sound samples), grammophon-platten.de, Odenthal / Osterwitz 2008: “'Kitty-Foxtrot', on the other hand, is perhaps not Schmal's best composition, but it is by far his most successful. With its extraordinarily high sales figures (piano sheet music including dance instructions), it probably contributed a lot to the popularization of the Foxtrot, at least in Vienna. "
  10. ↑ so the label. In general, NR Bakalainikow is considered the author; Name of an editor?
  11. ↑ The text for this posting confuses the son Max with the father Michail, who conducts here. Max, born in 1912, would have been just 6 years old in 1918. The composer's indication of "A. Rebner" on the label is also questionable , because the piece was written by the American Percy Wenrich , who released it as "Moonlight Bay" in the United States before the war; Arthur Rebner may have edited the melody as a Foxtrot in 1918.
  12. ↑ cf. Lange 78er discography pp. 768–769, the latter. Jazz in Deutschland p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Mikhailov, Mikhail
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Finkelstein, Michael (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian violinist and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Chornobyl
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1923