Spencer Dyke ( Eng. Spencer Dyke ; July 22, 1880 , St. Austell , Cornwall - December 13, 1946 , London ) - British violinist .
He graduated from the London Royal Academy of Music with Hans Wessel , a fellow practitioner and close friend of Lionel Tertis [1] , with whom he played in a quartet led by Wessel (second violin). Since 1907 he taught at the academy himself. It is known mainly as the first violin of the Spencer Dyke quartet - a collective that was very famous in the 1920s, during which the quartet made a number of gramophone records - including Beethoven , Schubert , Mendelssohn and Debussy quartets, Dvorak piano quintets (with Ethel Bartlett ) and Edward Elgar (with Ethel Hobday ), clarinet quintets by Mozart (with Charles Draper ) and Brahms (with Frederick Thurston ), first in the history of recording "Enlightened night" Arnold Schoenberg ( 1924 , in the original version and sextet), and others.
Sources
- ↑ John White. Lionel Tertis: The First Great Virtuoso of the Viola - Boydell Press, 2006 .-- Pp. 4-5.