Viktor Wladimirowitsch Ewald
Viktor Wladimirowitsch Ewald ( Russian Ви́ктор Влади́мирович Э́вальд , also Viktor Ewald ; born November 27, 1860 in Saint Petersburg ; † April 16, 1935 in Leningrad ) was a Russian composer, cellist, engineer and university professor.
Ewald was a full-time engineer, held a professorship at the Saint Petersburg Institute for Civil Engineering from 1895 to 1915 and continued to work in this profession after the revolution in 1917. He pursued music as a hobby, but at the Conservatory in St. Petersburg a. a. studied composition with Nikolai Sokolow . In 1893 his string quartet op. 1 won a 3rd prize from the Petersburg Quartet Society (jurors included Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov ). As a cellist, Ewald regularly took part in the quartet evenings Les Vendredis organized by the patron Beljajew . He also took part in research trips to northern Russia to collect folk songs there.
From Ewald's narrow compositional oeuvre (which also played tuba ), his brass quintets in particular are known today (of which only the first quintet op.5 was printed during his lifetime, No. 2 op.6 and No. 3 op.7 remained until in the 1970s manuscript, a No. 4 published later as op. 8 is a transcription of the string quartet op. 1).
Web links
- Works by and about Wiktor Wladimirowitsch Ewald in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography (McNaughtan Publishing House )
- Sheet music and audio files by Viktor Wladimirowitsch Ewald in the International Music Score Library Project
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| SURNAME | Ewald, Viktor Vladimirovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ewald, Viktor; Ewald, Victor; Ėvalʹd, Viktor Wladimirowitsch; Эвальд, Виктор Владимирович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian composer, cellist, engineer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1935 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |