Victor von Herzfeld
Viktor Emmerich Ritter von Herzfeld known as Victor von Herzfeld (also Viktor von Herzfeld and Viktor Herzfeld ) (born October 8, 1856 in Pressburg (Bratislava), † February 20, 1919 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian composer, violinist and music journalist.
Life
Viktor Emmerich Ritter von Herzfeld comes from an ennobled Jewish family. His father Josef Ritter von Herzfeld (1836–1889), general secretary and then director of the "Foncière", Pest insurance company in Vienna , was elevated to the Austrian knighthood on December 20, 1874. His mother was Amalie von Herzfeld (born Winter, † 1909).
From 1875–79 he studied law at the University of Vienna and at the same time violin playing with Dávid Ridley Kohne and Josef Hellmesberger and composition with Franz Krenn at the Vienna Conservatory , which he finished in 1880 with the 1st prize for composition and violin playing. First he directed opera performances in Linz from 1881–82 and in Leipzig from 1882–83 . In 1884 he received the Beethoven Prize of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna for his music to Grillparzer's drama "The Dream of a Life". He then continued to study composition in Berlin with Friedrich Kiel and Eduard Grell . In 1886 he went to Budapest, where he played second violin in the famous Hubay Popper Quartet founded by Jenő Hubay and David Popper (until 1889 and for the second time from 1897 to 1899). In 1887 he resigned from the Jewish faith. In 1888 he was appointed to the Royal Hungarian Music Academy , where he became professor of music theory and, from 1908, of composition. In 1907 he composed a festival march for the inauguration of the new academy building. Herzfeld's composition students included: Michael Krasznay-Krausz , Ákos Buttykay , Miklós Radnai , Oskar Böhme , György Kósa Eugen Szenkar , Jenő Huszka , Antal Molnár , Emil Telmányi , László Lajtha , Alexander László and Paul Abraham . For his educational services he was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown III by Emperor Franz Joseph I. Class awarded. In 1907, von Herzfeld was appointed the first president of the Hungarian rights management company MARS founded by Jenő Huszka. He held this post until the last year of his life (Jenő Hubay took over the management in 1918). 1907-1908 he wrote music reviews for the New Pester Journal and for the Pester Lloyd . He did not stop teaching until his death, although recently he has only received his students at home.
Victor von Herzfeld died in Budapest on February 20, 1919 and was buried in a grave of honor in the Kerepescher Friedhof on February 22nd .
His compositions include: orchestral overtures, chamber music works, serenades for wind instruments, suite for string orchestra, piano pieces and songs. He is also the author of a textbook on the fugue (Rozsnyai, Budapest, 1914, 75 pages).
His brother-in-law was the Austrian chemist Guido Goldschmiedt , who married Victor Herzfeld's sister Angelika on July 19, 1886.
Ernst von Dohnányi dedicated his Violin Sonata in C sharp minor op.21 to Victor von Herzfeld.
Works
Orchestral works
- Overture and "Song of the Dervish" to Grillparzer's drama "The Dream of a Life" (1883)
- Comedy overture (1884)
- Capriccio (1896)
- Spring idyll (1897)
- "Once upon a time", a fairy tale picture (1904)
- Serenade for strings (1900; version for wind instruments - 1910)
- Festival march in the Hungarian way (1907)
Works for solo instrument and orchestra
- Two romances for violin and orchestra (1879)
Chamber music
- Romance in G major, Op. 2 for violin and piano (1882)
- Hungarian wise men, for violin and piano (1901)
- Berceuse, for violin and piano (1904)
Songs for voice and piano
- Songs: Will rest under the trees; Farewell my love Night travel; Parting and shunning; Contemplation; Morning song; The Lark (1877-79)
- Girls' songs and other [poems] by Paul Heyse , for voice and piano
- Four songs, Op. 1 for voice and piano: Sermon of Love ( Rückert ); Two kings ( Geibel ); In the distance ( Uhland ); Many a bird flies into the nest (Geibel) (1879)
- Six poems by Julius Wolff , Op. 3 for voice and piano: The singer's greeting; Two stars; Dance song; Mrs. Minne; Secret; Lamentation (1882)
- Serenade "Are you sleeping, dear, are you already sleeping", text by Julius Wolff, voice and piano (1885)
Piano works
- Variations
- Colorful series. Volume I and II, 12 easy pieces for piano (1890–1899)
Fonts
- A fuga (The Fugue) , Rozsnyai Károly Könyv- és Zeneműkiadása (Károly Rozsnyai Book and Music Publishing House), Budapest 1913
- Musical life in Budapest , In: Signals for the musical world. , No. 66. pp. 1295-1326, Leipzig 1907
- Robert Volkmann. In: The Musical Quarterly. Vol. 1, No. 3 (July 1915), pp. 336–349 (at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/jstor-738146 ) ( English )
literature
- Elisabeth Th. Hilscher-Fritz: Herzfeld, Victor von. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 . P. 298. (with wrong year of death)
- Wilfrid Oberhummer: Herzfeld, Viktor von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 619 f. ( Digitized version ). (Mention)
- Arthur Eaglefield-Hull (eds.) And Alfred Einstein (transl. And arr.): Herzfeld Victor von. In: The New Music Lexicon. According to the Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians. Max Hesses Verlag, Berlin 1926, p. 272. ( digitized ) (with wrong year of death)
- Hugo Riemann : Herzfeld, Victor von. In: Musiklexikon . 11th edition. Max Hesses Verlag, Berlin 1929, p. 747. ( digitized ) (with wrong year of death)
- Ágnes Kenyeres (Ed.): Viktor Herzfeld. In: Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon (Hungarian Biographical Lexicon). ( Hungarian )
- Károly Kristóf, Péter Ujvári (eds.): Viktor Herzfeld. In: Magyar zsidó lexikon. (Hungarian Jewish Lexicon), Budapest 1929, p. 360. ( digitized ) ( Hungarian )
- Mária Csanda: Viktor Herzfeld. on the website of the Franz Liszt Music Academy ( Hungarian )
- Zoltán Kodály : Viktor Herzfeld. In: Visszatekintés (review). Budapest 1964.
- Zoltán Kodály: Viktor Herzfeld. In: Az Országos Magyar Zeneművészeti Főiskola évkönyve 1919 (Yearbook of the Hungarian Music Academy 1919). Pp. 5-11.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zeneakadémia: Victor von Herzfeld
- ^ Description of the Old Cemetery on Kerepeser Street on the Budapest City Archives website
- ↑ Genealogy educates! - ennobled Jewish families
- ↑ Anna L. Staudacher: ... announces the departure from the Mosaic faith. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-55832-4 , p. 248.
- ↑ 50 Years CISAC in: Billboard , November 6, 1976, p. 34.
- ↑ artisjus.hu in Hungarian
- ↑ Jiří Pešek - Nina Lohmann, Guido Goldschmiedt (1850–1915). A Jewish chemist between Vienna and Prague. In: Friedrich Edelmayer , Margarete Grandner, Jiří Pešek, Oliver Rathkolb (eds.): Beyond Austrian history. Festschrift for Gernot Heiss on his 70th birthday. Aschendorff, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-402-13010-0 , p. 87.
- ↑ Marriage Book F 1885 Feb.-1889 Apr .; citing Lower Austrian City and Provincial Archives Vienna (accessed April 25, 2014)
- ↑ Ilona von Dohnányi, James A. Grymes (ed.): Ernst von Dohnányi: A Song of Life. Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN 2002, ISBN 0-253-10928-0 , p. 63.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herzfeld, Victor von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herzfeld, Viktor von; Herzfeld, Viktor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian composer and violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pressburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1919 |
| Place of death | Budapest |