Paul Barth (cellist)
Paul E. August Barth (born November 6, 1889 in Weimar , † after 1954) was a German virtuoso on the cello .
Life
He was the son of the opera singer Arthur Barth († 1911) from Hamburg and his wife Franziska nee Hartmann and was born there in 1889. In his hometown of Weimar, he attended the Grand Ducal Music School and, from 1908, the Conservatory in Cologne . He passed the higher teacher examination in 1912 in Cologne. He then worked as a soloist on the violoncello in Saarbrücken until 1914 and subsequently took part in the First World War, where he was used in the Balkans, Finland and Flanders. After the end of the war, Paul Barth became a member of the Rhenish String Quartet in 1919, with whom he undertook extensive concert tours in Germany.
In August 1922 Paul Barth became concert master at the Hamburg State Theater and at the same time director of the Hamburg String Quartet and the Hamburg Trio . He toured Bulgaria, Romania and Scandinavia with his two ensembles. In addition to his wife Elly, the Hamburg trio also included Ottomar Borwitzky (* 1890) on the violin.
He lived in Hamburg 26, Slevekingsallee 27. During the Second World War he moved with his family to Lüneburg in 1943 , where he still lived in 1954 as concertmaster at Lüner Straße 14.
family
On April 6, 1921, Paul Barth married the pianist Elly (* 1891), daughter of August Baum, who had a doctorate in studies, from Uerdingen .
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, page 62.
- Herbert Barth: Jahrbuch der Musikwelt: The Yearbook of the music world , Volume 1, 1949, page 657.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar , 1954, column 49.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barth, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barth, Paul E. August (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German virtuoso on the violoncello |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1954 |