Otto Riller

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Otto Riller (born July 30, 1861 in Breslau , † June 29, 1936 in Hanover ) was a German violinist , violist , concertmaster and professor .

Life

Otto Riller studied music and especially violin with Moritz Schön ,

At the beginning of the founding years of the German Empire and as a child, Otto Riller undertook his first concert tours through Germany from 1872 . He later got a job in Darmstadt as a violist at the court orchestra there .

In 1889 Riller joined the Hanover court orchestra , worked as concertmaster the following year and - as Georg Haenflein's successor - as first concertmaster from 1899 until his retirement in 1925.

In the year of his entry into the Hanover Opera Orchestra, Riller had founded the "Riller Quartet" together with the musicians Bruno Meuche , Friedrich Rammelt and Ludwig Püschel , who also worked there, but it was not officially constituted until 1891. From time to time the pianist Emil Evers accompanied the quartet to chamber music performances.

Riller, who had meanwhile become a member of the Hanover Art Association in 1897 , also went on concert tours in England and Russia .

For his services, Riller was honored with the Prussian Eagle Order .

Riller's successor in Hanover was Richard Sahla .

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Riller, Otto , in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version dated April 14, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c Wulf Konold (Ges.-Red.), Klaus-Jürgen Etzold (co-author) and a .: The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover 1636 - 1986, ed. from the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover, Hanover: Schlueter, 1986, ISBN 3-87706-041-2 , p. 189
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Hugo Thielen : Riller, Otto. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 296; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ A b Heinrich Sievers : Chamber Music in Hanover. Historical, present - reviews, opinions. With special consideration of the work of the Hanover Chamber Music Community 1929–1979 , Tutzing: Schneider Verlag, 1980, p. 36; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ^ Ingeborg Schreiber: Max Reger in his concerts (= publications of the Max Reger Institute, Elsa Reger Foundation Bonn , Vol. 7), Part 2: Programs of the Regers Concerts , Bonn: Dümmler, 1981, ISBN 978-3- 427-86281-9 and ISBN 3-427-86281-X , p. 569; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ^ Richard Jakoby (Ed.): State University for Music and Theater Hanover. Structure, objectives, history , Hannover: Madsack, 1973, p. 48 u.ö .; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Riller, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist, violist, concertmaster and professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1936
Place of death Hanover