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Otto Schulhof (born March 9, 1889 in Vienna ; † April 16, 1958 ibid) was an Austrian concert pianist, piano accompanist, composer and teacher at the Vienna Music Academy .

Life

Program sheet 1932

Otto Schulhof attended the “Realschule Radetzkystraße” in the 3rd district . In 1907 he completed an apprenticeship as a concert pianist with Hugo Reinhold at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna and in 1911 he studied composition with Robert Fuchs at the K. k. Academy for Music and Performing Arts. He performed as a solo pianist. Schulhof composed piano pieces, chamber music, ballets and songs. He transcribed topics from Johann Strauss II and performed them repeatedly himself.

In February 1914 he accompanied the child prodigy Jascha Heifetz in a concert at the Wiener Tonkünstler . Schulhof was the piano accompanist of many great soloists, such as the cellist Senta Benesch and the violinists Fritz Kreisler , Eugène Ysaÿe , Bronisław Huberman and Jan Kubelík . He was the accompanist of the singers Lotte Lehmann , Leo Slezak and Alfred Piccaver . Schulhof also accompanied numerous modern dance evenings in the Wiener Konzerthaus, including by Grete Wiesenthal , Tilly Losch and Toni Birkmeyer, Ellen Tels and the "Dances of Vice, Horror and Ecstasy" by Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste .

Pablo Casals , whose partner he was on concert tours, and he recorded the cello sonata op. 69 and the cello sonata op. 102.1 by Ludwig van Beethoven on record in 1930 .

Schulhof was a professor of chamber music and instrumental accompaniment at the Vienna Music Academy . Hans Kann and Paul Badura-Skoda were among his students . After the annexation of Austria in 1938, he was removed from the professorship by the National Socialists and banned from performing. From 1945 he was in office again until 1954. In 1949 he accompanied the violinist Erika Morini at her first concert in Vienna after the period of National Socialism .

Schulhof received the GdM's Silver Society Medal in 1907 , the State Prize for Composition in 1910 and the Medal of Honor from the Federal Capital of Vienna in 1949 . He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Compositions (selection)

  • Piano quintet op.4, 1910
  • Ballet Suite op.19, 1912
  • Paraphrase for piano and orchestra based on motifs by J. Strauss , 1932
  • Three arrangements based on motifs by Johann Strauss . Ludwig Doblinger, Vienna 1991 [new edition]
  • The Moldau: Symphony. Sealing; No. 2, Ms. Smetana . Arr .: O. Schoolyard

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commemorative project ( memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) of today's Realgymnasium RG 3
  2. ^ Monika Kornberger, Lynne Heller: Schulhof, Otto Gustav. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
  3. ↑ Galina Kopytova: Jascha Heifetz: Early Years in Russia . Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2013, ISBN 978-0-253-01076-6 , p. 254
  4. ^ Elisabeth Zeisner: Article "Senta Benesch". In: MUGI. Music and gender on the internet. Beatrix Borchard, Nina Noeske, 2003 (as of April 24, 2018).;
  5. ^ Otto Schulhof at Musikantiquariat Neugebauer
  6. ↑ Erika Morini at JWA
  7. ^ Otto Schulhof grave site , Vienna, Central Cemetery, Group 42, Group Extension C, Row 5, No. 17.
personal data
SURNAME School yard, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian concert pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1958
Place of death Vienna