Strub Quartet

The Strub Quartet was a well-known German string quartet from Berlin (1929–1945) and Detmold (1945–1965). The namesake was the Primarius Max Strub .

history

The first Strub Quartet emerged from Edwin Fischer's chamber orchestra and was not insignificantly supported by the pianist.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Strub Quartet had a decisive influence on the German string quartet landscape. From the end of the 1930s, the Strub Quartet (4), together with the Gewandhaus Quartet (4), the Chamber Trio for Early Music (1) and the Gewandhaus Chamber Orchestra (1) were responsible for chamber music evenings in the Leipzig Gewandhaus . Concert tours have taken the ensemble through Germany and other European countries to Italy, Austria, France and Denmark as well as the Netherlands and Switzerland. The string quartet performed repeatedly in Milan from 1939, first in the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi , then in 1949 in the auditorium of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and in 1951 in the Teatro Excelsioron. During the Second World War (June 1st to 4th, 1943) the quartet also gave cultural propaganda concerts in occupied France (Bordeaux, Poitiers and Angers).

In 1940 it became an honorary member of the Società del quartetto di Milano and in 1942 of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn association. In 1952 it was invited to the Beethoven celebration. In addition, the string quartet received a special audience with Pope Pius XII. in the Vatican. This was preceded in the 1951/52 season by the Beethoven cycle in Munich and Stuttgart, and later all of the composer's string quartets in the Mozarteum in Salzburg and in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The quartet also gave concerts at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

Members

Max Strub (1929–1965) was a member of the string quartet as primary violinist (1st violin). At his side were Josef Krips (1929–1933), Jost Raba (1934–1938), Hermann Hubl (1939–1951), Otto Schad (1951–1953) and Ruth Wagner-Nielen (1953–1965) as 2nd violins, Rudolph Nel (1929–1933), Walter Trampler (1934–1938), Hermann Hirschfelder (1939–1951), Franz Beyer (1951–1953 and 1962–1965) and Walter Müller (1953–1962) as Violen and Hans Schrader (1929 –1933), Ludwig Hoelscher (1934–1938), Hans Münch-Holland (1939–1953) and Irene Güdel (1953–1965) as cellos.

repertoire

The Strub Quartet specialized in the classical and romantic repertoire as well as more modern music, for example by Max Reger and Paul Hindemith . It was responsible for the world premiere of string quartets by Karl Höller (op. 24), Hans Pfitzner (op. 50), Lothar Windsperger and Johannes Driessler (op. 41/1). The string quartet also took part in the world premiere of Anton Bruckner's string quintet, which was arranged by Armin Knab .

Discography

Ludwig van Beethoven : . String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op 59/3 (Electrola 1941).
Anton Bruckner : String Quintet, F major, WAB 112 (Electrola 1940?, Pristine Audio 2017)
Antonín Dvořák : Finale, from: String Quartet, F major, op. 96 " American Quartet " (Bertelsmann Schallplattenring 1959)
Joseph Haydn : Variations from: String Quartet, C major, C major, op. 76/3, Hob. III: 77 " Kaiserquartett " (Bertelsmann Schallplattenring 1959 and 1961, Orbis 1967, Parnass 1968)
Karl Höller : String Quartet No. 1, E major, op.24 (Electrola 1938)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Clarinet Quintet A major KV 581 (Electrola 1941, Clarinet Classics 2000)
Max Reger : String Quartet No. 4, E flat major, op.109 (Electrola 1936 and 1938)
Franz Schubert : Piano Quintet, A major, op. Posth. 114, D 667 “ Trout Quintet ” or theme and variations from it ( His Master's Voice 1937, Electrola 1938, Bertelsmann Schallplattenring 1959, 1960 and 1961, Ariola 1960, Pearl 1995); String Quartet No. 15, G major, op. Posth. 161, D 887 (Electrola 1937); String quintet , C major, op. Posth. 163, D 956 (Electrola 1941, meloclassic 2014)
Gerhart von Westerman : String Quartet No. 2, C minor, op.8 (Electrola 1941, meloclassic 2014)

literature

Wolfgang Gruhle: String Quartet Lexicon: Composers, Works, Interpreters . 3rd updated and expanded edition, TRIGA - Der Verlag, Gelnhausen 2005, ISBN 3-89774-406-6 , p. 323.
Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 227.

Web links

Literature by and about the Strub Quartet in the catalog of the German National Library
Strub Quartet at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

^ Elgin Strub-Ronayne: The violinist Max Strub (1900-1966). About his life and the artists who influenced and enriched it . In: Das Orchester 35 (1987) 11, pp. 1157–1162, here: p. 1160.
^ Norbert Hornig: Stross Quartet. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 16 (Strata - Villoteau). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1136-5 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
↑ See Elgin Strub: Sketches by a family of artists in Weimar . JE Ronayne, London 1999, ISBN 0-9536096-0-X , p. 66.
^ Manuela Schwartz : Music policy and music propaganda in occupied France . In: Wolfgang Benz (ed.): Culture - Propaganda - Public. Intentions of German occupation policy and reactions to the occupation . Metropol, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-932482-05-2 , pp. 55–78, here: p. 62.
↑ Ernst Klee : Cultural Lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Revised edition, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 541.
^ Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 . 2nd ed., Kopf, Kiel 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-037705-1 , p. 7555.
^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 227.
↑ See photographs of the Strub Quartet in the digital archive of the Beethoven House in Bonn, katalog.beethoven.de, accessed on December 30, 2018.
↑ Cf. The Strub Quartet in Pope Pius XII. (1876-1958) in the Vatican - Anonymous photography in the digital archive of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, beethoven.de, accessed on November 24, 2018.
^ Elgin Strub: Sketches by a family of artists in Weimar . JE Ronayne, London 1999, ISBN 0-9536096-0-X , p. 74.
^ WJ Becker: Koblenz . In: Zeitschrift für Musik 100 (1933) 3, pp. 277–279, here: p. 279.
^ Markus Kiefer: Johannes Driessler. Life and work . Dissertation, University of Mainz, 2001, p. 11, 142; Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 285; Fl: Anniversary in Detmold . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 118 (1957) 5, p. 320.
↑ World premieres . In: Zeitschrift für Musik 107 (1940) 11, p. 674; Anton Bruckner : Complete Works. Critical complete edition . Volume 9/2. Edited by the General Directorate of the Austrian National Library and the International Bruckner Society , Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag, Vienna 1998, p. XIV.

[1] Elgin Strub-Ronayne: The violinist Max Strub (1900-1966). About his life and the artists who influenced and enriched it . In: Das Orchester 35 (1987) 11, pp. 1157–1162, here: p. 1160.

[2] Norbert Hornig: Stross Quartet. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 16 (Strata - Villoteau). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1136-5 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

[3] See Elgin Strub: Sketches by a family of artists in Weimar . JE Ronayne, London 1999, ISBN 0-9536096-0-X , p. 66.

[4] Manuela Schwartz : Music policy and music propaganda in occupied France . In: Wolfgang Benz (ed.): Culture - Propaganda - Public. Intentions of German occupation policy and reactions to the occupation . Metropol, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-932482-05-2 , pp. 55–78, here: p. 62.

[5] Ernst Klee : Cultural Lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Revised edition, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 541.

[6] Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 . 2nd ed., Kopf, Kiel 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-037705-1 , p. 7555.

[7] Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 227.

[8] See photographs of the Strub Quartet in the digital archive of the Beethoven House in Bonn, katalog.beethoven.de, accessed on December 30, 2018.

[9] Cf. The Strub Quartet in Pope Pius XII. (1876-1958) in the Vatican - Anonymous photography in the digital archive of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, beethoven.de, accessed on November 24, 2018.

[10] Elgin Strub: Sketches by a family of artists in Weimar . JE Ronayne, London 1999, ISBN 0-9536096-0-X , p. 74.

[11] WJ Becker: Koblenz . In: Zeitschrift für Musik 100 (1933) 3, pp. 277–279, here: p. 279.

[12] Markus Kiefer: Johannes Driessler. Life and work . Dissertation, University of Mainz, 2001, p. 11, 142; Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 285; Fl: Anniversary in Detmold . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 118 (1957) 5, p. 320.

[13] World premieres . In: Zeitschrift für Musik 107 (1940) 11, p. 674; Anton Bruckner : Complete Works. Critical complete edition . Volume 9/2. Edited by the General Directorate of the Austrian National Library and the International Bruckner Society , Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag, Vienna 1998, p. XIV.