Walter Burle Marx

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Walter Burle Marx (born July 23, 1902 in São Paulo , † December 28, 1990 in Akron , Ohio ) was a Brazilian pianist, composer and conductor.

Life

Walter Burle Marx was the eldest of six children of the businessman Wilhelm Marx, who came from an immigrant family of German-Jewish descent from Trier , and the singer and pianist Cecília Burle from an immigrant family Burle Dubeux of French descent. A younger brother was the landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx .

Burle Marx began his career as a musical child prodigy. At the age of twelve he gave piano concerts in South America and Europe. From 1914 he was a piano student of Enrique Oswold . He continued his training with Tobias Matthay in London and in the early 1920s with James Kwast in Berlin. There he also studied composition with Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek and conducting with Felix Weingartner . After a concert tour in 1925-26, he returned to Brazil.

Here he founded the Orquestra Filarmonica do Rio de Janeiro in 1931 , of which he was musical director for three years. With the orchestra he played a. a. the South American premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and gave concerts with soloists such as Arthur Rubinstein , Mieczysław Horszowski and Marguerite Long .

During the World Exhibition in New York in 1939 he was musical director of the Brazilian Pavilion and gave world premieres of works by Brazilian composers, among others. a. of his friend Heitor Villa-Lobos . During this time he was also a guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , the Cleveland , Detroit and Washington Symphony Orchestras .

From 1946 to 1950 Marx was artistic director at the Rio de Janeiro Opera House. In 1949 he went to the USA again. From 1952 to 1977 he taught piano, music theory and composition at the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia.

Burle Marx composed a. a. four symphonies, two piano concertos and one cello concerto, chamber music works, including two string quartets, cantatas, choral works and the song cycle The Great Occasions .

In 1987 the Burle Marx Music Society was founded to promote his compositions as well as the works of other Brazilian and Latin American composers. His daughter Madalena Burle Marx became known as a cellist.

literature

  • Leonora M. Cohen: Rediscovering Walter Burle Marx: Brazilian Musician of "Pure Gold". In: Latin American Music Review. Volume 32, 2011, pp. 108-134. ISSN  1536-0199 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Webster: Walter Burle Marx, A Noted Composer. In: philly.com, January 1, 1991. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
  2. ↑ Álvaro Duarte: Burle Marx e suas origens. In: Revista Brasil-Europa No. 123 / 20.2010 ISSN  1866-203X . Retrieved March 18, 2014 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ List of compositions ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 18, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / burlemarx.org
personal data
SURNAME Marx, Walter Burle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian pianist, composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1990
Place of death Akron , Ohio