Valentin Härtl

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Valentin Georg Härtl (born June 20, 1894 in Aschaffenburg ; † August 13, 1966 in Munich ) was a German violist and violinist .

Life

He was the son of the engine driver August Härtl and Elisabeth Härtl, née . Hembt. After graduating from high school in Aschaffenburg, Härtl studied from 1910 to 1912 at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main under Adolf Rebner, together with Paul Hindemith, with whom he had a lifelong friendship. In 1913/1914 he was a student of Professor Felix Berber's master class at the Academy of Music in Munich .

After the First World War he went back to Aschaffenburg as a violin teacher in 1918. From 1919 until his death he taught, from 1925 as a professor, at the Academy of Music, which later became the Munich University of Music and Theater.

Valentin Härtl was a member of many important chamber music ensembles: together with his academy colleagues Johannes Hegar ( violoncello ), Anton Huber ( violin ) and his former teacher Felix Berber (violin) in his "Berber Quartet", in the "Münchner Violenquintett, im "H-trio" ( H uber- H ärtl- H indemith) and Stross quartet . member of Karl Richter's "Bach Orchestra" he .galt as an away not wegzudenkende decades from the Munich concert life "institution".

In October 1941 in Munich he married Elisabeth von Brasch , who was 13 years his junior , daughter of bank director Arved von Brasch and his first wife Alice Bircher , but was divorced from her in 1946. On December 7, 1946, he married Ruth Blatter in Munich and had two children with her, Cornelia and Wolfgang.

Härtl died in 1966 while on vacation in Italy .

literature

  • Who is who? , Das Deutsche who's who, Volume 12, Verlag Arani, 1955, page 393 ( excerpt )
  • Who's who in Europe , dictionnaire biographique des personnalités européennes contemporaines, International Publications Service, 1980, page 1098 ( excerpt )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephan Schmitt: History of the University of Music and Theater Munich from the beginnings to 1945 , musicological writings of the University of Music and Theater Munich, Volume 1, Verlag H. Schneider, 2005, ISBN 3795211530 or ISBN 9783795211530
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser B Volume XVIII, page 63, Volume 95 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4 ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Härtl, Valentin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Härtl, Valentin Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschaffenburg
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1966
Place of death Munich