Stefan Frenkel

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Stefan Frenkel (born November 21, 1902 in Warsaw , † March 1, 1979 in New York City ) was a violinist, violin teacher and composer of the Jewish faith.

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Stefan Frenkel took his first violin lessons from his uncle Moritz Frenkel and made his debut in Warsaw with the violin concerto by Peter Tschaikowsky . From 1919 to 1921 he studied violin with Adolf Busch and Carl Flesch in Berlin, taking composition lessons with Friedrich Ernst Koch at the Berlin Music Academy . From 1924 to 1927 Frenkel was the concertmaster of the Dresden Philharmonic, which Frenkel performed at the same time as Szymon Goldberg . He also appeared in Dresden as a soloist and chamber musician. He became a member of the International Society for New Music and also took part in their festivals, working with the Dresden pianist and organizer Paul Aron . They performed together as part of the concert cycle “New Music Paul Aron” and played works by Karol Rathaus , Paul Amadeus Pisk , Béla Bartók , Philipp Jarnach , Hermann Reutter and Maurice Ravel . In Dresden, Frenkel staged the first performance of “Phantasie” for violin and orchestra by Josef Suk . He also took part in the performances of works by Paul Hindemith . In 1927 Frenkel organized the first performance of Kurt Weill's Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra in Dresden, and in 1929 he realized the first performance of his Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra in Dresden.

After the National Socialists came to power, he was only able to perform concerts at the events of the Jewish Cultural Association . For this he worked in 1934 in the Berlin Beethoven Hall, in Frankfurt am Main, in Karlsruhe and in Würzburg, in 1935 he played in Cologne. An announced concert in Dresden in 1935 no longer took place. He emigrated to Switzerland and became concertmaster in the Orchester de la Suisse Romande in Geneva. In 1936 he went into US exile and was first concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1936 to 1940 . He then worked as a concertmaster (at the opera in Rio de Janeiro and in Santa Fe), as a violin teacher (1964–1968 at Princeton University ) and as a soloist and chamber musician. He died on March 1, 1979 in New York.

Works

Stefan Frenkel composed a violin concerto, a violin sonata, chamber music and a piano piece.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hagemeyer, p. 188 (8.22 Stefan Frenkel: Mood pictures from childhood days)

literature

  • Kerstin Hagemeyer: Jewish life in Dresden. Exhibition on the occasion of the consecration of the new Dresden synagogue on November 9, 2001 (=  series of publications by the Saxon State Library - State and University Library . Volume 7 ). Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-910005-27-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Frenkel, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1979
Place of death New York City