Richard Lewy

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Richard Lewy ( September 13, 1827 in Vienna - December 31, 1883 ibid) was an Austrian French horn player , opera director and singing teacher .

life and work

Richard Lewy comes from a musical family. His father Eduard was a pianist and composer, his younger brother Josef Rudolf was a horn player. His own older brother Carl was also a horn player, his sister Melanie played the harp. According to Eduard Hanslick, little Richard already performed when he was seven. When Eduard was offered a place in the court chapel, the family converted to Catholicism in the summer of 1835. The four of the family played a concert on September 17, 1838, in which, among other things, the quartour concertant for two French horns, harp and pianoforte , composed by Lewy's father, was played. The following month the family gave two more concerts at the Vienna Booksellers Exchange. Richard Lewy was employed in the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra at the age of 13, and on December 13, 1841, a large musical academy was held in the Kärntnerthortheater for the benefit of the Lewy family . The three siblings and the English harpist Elias Parish Alvars played , and Otto Nicolai conducted . A program sheet from the Leipzig Gewandhaus has survived from 1843 , on which a duet for horn and piano was announced, "performed by Messrs Carl and Richard Lewy from Vienna". Richard Lewy later worked as an opera inspector, director of the court opera and singing teacher.

His most famous students included the soprano Pauline Lucca and Mathilde Mallinger , both of whom were later engaged for many years at the Berlin State Opera , the bassists Franz Krolop , later also in Berlin, and Emil Scaria , who became a crowd favorite at the Wiener k. k. Hofoper became, as well as the coloratura soprano Marcella Sembrich , who celebrated great successes in Paris, Milan, Berlin and Vienna in the 1880s and 1890s.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Hanslick: Geschichte Des Concertwesens in Wien , p. 350
  2. ^ A b French Horn 1800–1850 , accessed October 26, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Austrian National Library (bequests in Austria - personal dictionary =): Richard Lewy , accessed on October 26, 2016.
  4. ^ ZVAB: Lewy, Richard, French horn virtuoso and composer (1827-1883). , accessed October 26, 2016
  5. ^ Hugo Riemann : Musik-Lexikon: Second Volume , p. 592
personal data
SURNAME Lewy, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician (French horn), opera director and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1883
Place of death Vienna