Wilhelm Kretschmann

Wilhelm (Christian Albert) Kretschmann ( Russian Вильгельм Кречман ; born February 15, 1848 in Könnern ; † 1922 in Moscow ) was a German- Russian flautist and university teacher .

Life

Kretschmann learned from the Würzburg flautist Carl Wehner and then played in the Schwarzburg-Sondershausen court orchestra , in the orchestra of Johann Strauss Sohn and at the Meiningen court theater . He was an excellent ensemble player and also a soloist.

In 1882 Kretschmann went to Moscow and became a soloist in the opera and ballet orchestras of the Bolshoi Theater (until 1907) and professor at the Moscow Conservatory (until his death). Thanks to its beautiful and uniform sound especially in the low register, he played the for flute technically very difficult opera Dubrovsky of Eduard Nápravník , Snow Maiden by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer . He achieved great merit by introducing the Böhm system. Using Wilhelm Popp's flute school , the concerts of Popp, Jules Demersseman and Adolf Terschak, and the fantasies of Giulio Briccialdi and Franz Doppler , he led his students to mastery. His students included WN Zybin , FA Lewin , WI Glinski-Safronow , GJ Madatow and NI Platonow .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adolf Goldberg: Portraits and biographies of outstanding flute virtuosos, dilettantes and composers (reprint of the private printing Berlin 1906) . Moeck, 1987, ISBN 3-87549-028-2 .
2. ↑ Семейный архив Цыбиных: Книга-альбом о творческой деятельности В. Н. Цыбина.
3. ↑ Н. И. Платонов: Пути развития исполнительского мастерства на флейте . Moscow 1857.