August Duesberg ( German: August Duesberg ; October 3, 1867 , Gelsenkirchen - November 12, 1922 , Vienna ) - Austrian violinist.
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Biography
He studied in 1883 - 1887 . in Berlin , Wiesbaden (near August Wilhelmy ), Würzburg , Vienna, later improved in the Brussels Conservatory under the leadership of Eugene Isai . Since 1889 , Mr .. acted as the primarius of the Duesberg Quartet; criticism noted the high artistic level of this composition and its contribution to the promotion of the work of Joseph Reiter [1] .
Best known as the founder ( 1891 ) and leader of the First Vienna Folk Quartet of Classical Music ( German: Erste Wiener Volksquartett für klassische Musik ), which set itself the task of popularizing chamber music among the general public (the fee for attending quartet performances was noticeably lower than usual). The quartet gave weekly concerts on early Sunday evenings, often with vocal numbers and piano pieces included in the program; the choice of composers was often associated with current events in the musical calendar ( Schubert’s anniversary, Grieg’s visit to Vienna, Bruckner’s death), while Duesberg eagerly performed works by young composers, including Walter Rabel and Arnold Krug [2] , as well as Joseph Boguslav Förster .
He was married since 1894 to the pianist Natalie Dyusberg , a student of Julius Epstein and Theodor Leshetitsky . In 1897 , the Duesberg couple opened a private music school in Vienna. In 1910 , Duesberg published a textbook of the violin game for the elementary level ( German: Neue Elementar-Violinschule, auf katechetischer grundlage ). It was also reported that he invented his own construction of the mute [3] .
In the summer of 1914 he was awarded the Vienna Savior Gold Medal by the municipality of Vienna ( German: Große goldene Salvator-Medaille ).
Children - violinists Nora Dyusberg-Baranovsky and Herbert Dyusberg .
Notes
- ↑ Hans Schmidkunz. Kompositionen von Josef Reiter // “Blätter für Haus- und Kirchenmusik”, IX. Jahrgang no. 9 (1. Juni 1905), S. 152. (German)
- ↑ Sandra McColl. Music Criticism in Vienna, 1896-1897: Critically Moving Forms - Oxford University Press, 1996 .-- P. 55-56. (eng.)
- ↑ Fiddle Strings // “The Violinist”, Vol. XII No. 4 (February 1912), p. 33. (English)