Ossip Schnirlin
Ossip Schnirlin (March 3, 1874 - June 28, 1939 ) was a Russian-Jewish violinist.
Life
Schnirlin was a student of Joseph Joachim . In 1906 he premiered Max Reger's suite in the old style in Berlin . Reger himself sat at the piano. Schnirlin played Antonio Stradivari's Apollo violin until his death . He was married to Arnold Brecht's sister Gertrud. In view of the increasing anti-Semitism in the German Reich , he took her own life with her in the summer of 1939. Käthe Kollwitz and her husband Karl Kollwitz were friends of Schnirlin. A letter from Schnirlin to Gerhart Hauptmann (1922) has survived .
Works
- The new way to master the entire violin literature. The New Way - La Voie Nouvelle , Vol. II: Chamber music without piano . B. Schott's Sons , Mainz 1923.
- Classics for violin and piano ( transcriptions ). London 1924.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ossip Schnirlin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ossip Schnirlin : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Literature by and about Ossip Schnirlin in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Image Schnirlins (Hungaricana)
Individual evidence
- ↑ PDF file
- ↑ Stradivaris Apollo (tarisio.com)
- ↑ Claus-Dieter Krohn, Corinna R. Unger (ed.): Arnold Brecht, 1884–1977: democratic official and political scientist in Berlin and New York (2006).
- ↑ Yury Winterberg, Sonya Winterberg: Kollwitz: The Biography (2015)
- ↑ Berlin State Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schnirlin, Ossip |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Jewish violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1874 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 1939 |