Valentine Dept.

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Valentine Dept.

Valentine Abbot (born June 18, 1873 in Allegheny, Pittsburgh , † July 16, 1942 in Mayview , Pennsylvania ) was an American mandolinist , composer and music teacher .

Life

Valentine Abt received his first violin lessons at the age of thirteen. After five years he began to learn to play the mandolin, to which he could apply his knowledge of violin playing. He studied harmony with renowned music teachers, first in Pittsburgh, then in Utica (New York) . In 1894 he was a teacher in Utica (New York). He then went to Pittsburgh and lived in the Verner Building in Pittsburgh . At that time he was leading the largest mandolin orchestra in the country, consisting of 150 mandolins and guitars. Now he also started to learn the harp. He went to New York, taught there and gave concerts. In 1908 he founded the Plectrum Society,a group of 30 people who developed and performed demanding music for plucked orchestra under Abbot's direction. He went on concert tours through the USA and Canada . At his concerts he often played the works for violin solo by Niccolo Paganini , Henryk Wieniawski and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in arrangements for mandolin. In 1902 he published a mandolin school based on Heinrich Ernst Kayser's (* April 16, 1815, † January 17, 1888) violin studies. At the beginning of the 20th century he recorded works for Victor Records . There are still recordings from the years 1905 to 1909, both recordings with Roy Butin as a duet partner on the harp guitar and recordings with orchestra.

Works (selection)

  • Home, sweet home, variations for mandolin solo
  • Golden Rod , Barcarolle
  • Impromptu, Fantasia
  • Valse la Grace for piano. Dallas, The Columbian Conservatory of Music, published in 1909 in the Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Sheet Music series
  • Valse romantique for 3 mandolins and guitar

reception

In 1905, Frank L. Boyden named Valentine Abt in his book Popular American Composers the most prominent specialist of the mandolin . He had developed a new school of mandolin playing, and his duo, trio and quartet compositional style was often copied and imitated and was widely used. His compositions would have class and would last forever.

literature

  • Valentine Dept. In: Frank L. Boyden: Popular American Composers. Published by Herbert H. Taylor, New York 1905, pp. 105 ff. (English).
  • John L. Abt: The biography of Valentine Abt: mandolin and harp virtuoso, composer, and teacher, 1873-1942 . JL Abbot; Distributed by Plucked String, Fort Lauderdale, Fla .; Kensington, Md. 2003, ISBN 978-0-9721736-6-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Frank L. Boyden: Valentine Abt . In: Popular American Composers . Herbert Taylor, 1902, p. 101 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ a b c S. S. Stewart: Banjo & Guitar Journal . tape 85 . Philadelphia 1894, p. 22 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Valentine Abt . In: Crescendo . April 1910, p. 11 ( harpguitars.net [PDF]).
  4. ↑ Marilynn Mair: Complete Mandolinist . Mel Bay Publications, 2011, ISBN 978-1-61065-321-3 , pp. 4 .
  5. ↑ a b University of Michigan (Ed.): California musical journal . San Francisco, FJ Zefferer, January 1, 1895 ( archive.org ).
  6. ↑ Valse la grace. January 1, 1909, accessed May 8, 2017 .
  7. ^ Valentine Abbot: Valse la grace: for piano . Columbian Conservatory of Music, Dallas, Tex. January 1, 1909 ( bearcat.baylor.edu [accessed May 8, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Abbot, Valentine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mandolinist, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Allegheny, Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , USA
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1942
Place of death Mayview , Pennsylvania , USA