Ricardo Odnoposoff

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Ricardo Odnoposoff (born February 24, 1914 in Buenos Aires , † October 26, 2004 in Vienna ) was an Austrian-American violinist from Argentina of the 20th century.

Life

The son of Russian immigrants, he first met in Buenos Aires and Berlin to play the violin until he finally in 1928 at the Academy of Music in Berlin received and there until 1931 as a student of Carl Flesch in violin and Paul Hindemith in trade composition was taught. At the end of his studies, at the age of just 17, he appeared for the first time as a soloist with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Erich Kleiber .

In 1932 he won first prize at the renowned violin competition in Vienna and in 1937 second prize - after David Oistrach - at the Eugène Ysaÿe competition in Brussels. David Oistrach reports about him in a letter to his wife from the Brussels competition: “... when I arrived, Odnopossoff was playing Tchaikovsky. He played wonderfully. "

At that time he was already the successor to Arnold Rosé concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic and taught at the State Academy , where Norbert Brainin , who later became the leader of the Amadeus Quartet, was one of his students.

After the “Anschluss” of Austria , he was unable to provide evidence of the Aryan . He was therefore released from the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic on September 1, 1938 and had to go into exile in Argentina. The beneficiary of his departure from the orchestra was Wolfgang Schneiderhan , who had made his admission to the Philharmonic dependent on his wish to be accepted as concertmaster. However, according to the statutes of the Vienna Philharmonic, this failed until then because of the anciency .

In the early 1940s he moved to the United States, where he made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1944 . During this time he worked with conductors such as Leonard Bernstein , Arturo Toscanini , Fritz Busch and André Cluytens and worked as a teacher. In 1953 he received American citizenship.

In 1956 he returned to Vienna and taught at the Musikhochschule until 1993, where Josef Sivo became one of his students. Several recordings were made with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne under Franz Marszalek , including Viotti's Violin Concerto No. 22. From 1964, Odnoposoff also taught at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts , where his students included Michael Jelden , Alfred Csammer, Michael Eichinger, Helmut Mebert and Rainer Kussmaul , and from 1975 to 1984 at the Zurich University of Music . Odnoposoff was a Freemason in Vienna.

Odnoposoff played on the "ex Ladenburg" Guarneri del Gesù from 1735. His violin playing impressed with a large, sonorous, but still round tone, with a masterly command of the technique. Many of his recordings also reflect the great joy that went into his game.

His grave is in Vienna at the Grinzinger Friedhof (group 19, no. 36A).

Ricardo Odnoposoff's grave

Musical family

Ricardo Odnoposoff is the brother of the Latin American cellist Adolfo Odnoposoff (1917–1992) and the Argentine pianist Nélida Odnoposoff (* 1919). Adolfo was an influential exponent of Latin American classical music and was also closely associated with Pablo Casals .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Wiener Journal , February 4, 1938, page 10

literature

  • Austrian music lexicon . Volume 3. (Ed. Rudolf Flotzinger), Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
  • Victims, perpetrators, bystanders. 70 years later - The Vienna State Opera and the “Anschluss” in 1938 . Exhibition catalog of the Vienna State Opera, Vienna 2008.

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personal data
SURNAME Odnoposoff, Ricardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian Austrian-American violinist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 2004
Place of death Vienna