[오스트리아 - 미국]Fritz Kreisler[크라이슬러 ]

Fritz Kreisler

(February 2, 1875 – January 29, 1962) was an Austrian-born violinist and composer.^[1] one of the most noted violin masters of his day, and regarded as one of the greatest violin masters of all time, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately recognizable as his own. Although it derived in many respects from the Franco-Belgian school, his style is nonetheless reminiscent of the gemütlich (cozy) lifestyle of pre-war Vienna.

[그 시대의 가장 성공적인 바이올린 거장의 한 사람이며 바이올린 소품들을 작곡한 신비에 싸인 작곡가이다.

7세 때 빈 음악원에 입학했고, 1885년 파리 음악원에서 작곡과 바이올린을 공부했다. 미국 순회 연주(1888~89)를 성공적으로 마친 후 빈으로 돌아와 의학을 공부했다. 그후 파리와 로마에서 미술을 공부했고 오스트리아 육군에서 장교로 복무했다. 1899년 바이올린 연주자로 다시 무대에 복귀했다.

그의 기교는 강한 비브라토와 경제적인 운궁법이 특징이다. 1910년 에드워드 엘가 경이 그에게 헌정한 바이올린 협주곡을 초연했다. 그의 레퍼토리에는 그가 작곡한 소품이 상당수 포함되어 있는데 그 가운데는 〈빈 카프리치오 Caprice viennois〉·〈아름다운 로즈마린 Schön Rosmarin〉·〈사랑의 기쁨〉·〈사랑의 슬픔〉 등이 있다.그의 〈고전 필사본 Classical Manuscripts〉은 비발디, 쿠프랭, 요한 슈타미츠, 파드레 마르티니와 그밖의 작곡가들의 작품들에 대한 편곡집의 형태로 출판되었으나 1935년에는 그 자신의 작품들로 인정되었다.[다음백과]

[연주및 작품 모음]

All pieces were written by or arranged by Fritz Kreisler

1. A May Breeze
2. Aubade Provencale in the style of Couperin 2:44
3. Ballet in G 5:32
4. Caprice Viennois. 2 8:38
5. Chanson Pavane in the style of Couperin 12:24
6. Chanson Hindoue 16:00
7. Chansons sans paroles 19:16
8. La Vida Breve 22:02
9. Gavotte 25:32
10. Gypsy Caprice 28:51
11. Humoresque Op. 101 No. 7 33:20
12. Hymn to the Sun 37:02
13. Jota No. 4 41:04
14. La Gitana 43:50
15. La Precieuse in the style of Couperin 47:03
16. Larghetto 50:26
17. Liebesfreud 53:06
18. Liebesleid 56:25
19. Mazurka No. 4, Op. 67 posth. 59:48
20. Midnight Bells (Der Opernball) 1:02:36
21. Polichinelle 1:05:53
22. Pupée valsante (Poldini-Kreisler) 1:08:19
23. Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven 1:14:32
24. Mozart: Rondo 1:17:04
25. Scherzo alla Dittersdorf 1:24:37
26. Serenade Espagnole, Op. 20 No. 2 1:28:02
27. Shepherds Madrigal 1:30:48
28. Stars in My Eyes 1:35:12
29. Tambourin Chinois, Op. 3 1:38:15
30. The Londonderry Air 1:41:41
31. The Old Refrain 1:45:22
32. Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta 1:48:26
33. Humoresque Op. 101 No. 7 1:57:00
34. Lotus Land, Op. 47 No. 2:00:44
35. Poupée Valsante 2:04:53 (Sorry about the repeat)
36. Schön Rosmarin 2:07:22
37. Andante Cantabile 2:09:20=====================================================

Biography

Kreisler was born in Vienna, the son of Anna (née Reaches) and Samuel Kreisler, a doctor.^[2][3] Of Jewish heritage, he was however baptised at the age of 12. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory and in Paris, where his teachers included Anton Bruckner, Léo Delibes, Jakob Dont, Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., Joseph Massart, and Jules Massenet. While there, he won the "Premier Grand Prix de Rome" gold medal at the age of 12, competing against 40 other players, all of whom were at least 20 years of age.^[4

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He made his United States debut at the Steinway Hall in New York City on November 10, 1888, and his first tour of the United States in 1888–1889 with Moriz Rosenthal. He then returned to Austria and applied for a position in the Vienna Philharmonic, but was turned down by the concertmaster Arnold Rosé. As a result, he left music to study medicine. He spent a brief time in the army before returning to the violin in 1899, when he gave a concert with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Arthur Nikisch. It was this concert and a series of American tours from 1901 to 1903 that brought him real acclaim.

In 1910, Kreisler gave the premiere of Sir Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto, a work commissioned by and dedicated to him. He served briefly in the Austrian Army in World War I before being honourably discharged after he was wounded. He arrived in New York on November 24, 1914,^[5] and spent the remainder of the war in America. He returned to Europe in 1924, living first in Berlin, then moving to France in 1938. Shortly thereafter, at the outbreak of World War II, he settled once again in the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1943. He lived there for the rest of his life, giving his last public concert in 1947, and broadcasting performances for a few years after that.

Fritz Kreisler, Harold Bauer, Pablo Casals, and Walter Damrosch at Carnegie Hall on March 13, 1917

On April 26, 1941, he was involved in a serious traffic accident. Struck by a truck while crossing a street in New York, he suffered a fractured skull and was in a coma for over a week.^[6]

In his later years, he suffered from not only some hearing loss but also sight deterioration due to cataracts.^[7]

Kreisler died of a heart condition aggravated by old age in New York City in 1962.^[1] He was interred in a private mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York City.

Legacy

Kreisler wrote a number of pieces for the violin, including solos for encores, such as "Liebesleid" and "Liebesfreud". Some of Kreisler's compositions were pastiches ostensibly in the style of other composers.

They were originally ascribed to earlier composers, such as Gaetano Pugnani, Giuseppe Tartini and Antonio Vivaldi, and then, in 1935, Kreisler revealed that it was he who wrote the pieces. When critics complained, Kreisler replied that they had already deemed the compositions worthy: "The name changes, the value remains", he said.

He also wrote operettas, including Apple Blossoms in 1919^[8] and Sissy in 1932, a string quartet, and cadenzas, including ones for Brahms's D major violin concerto, Paganini's D major violin concerto, and Beethoven's D major violin concerto. His cadenzas for the Beethoven concerto are the ones most often played by violinists today.

He wrote the music for the 1936 movie The King Steps Out directed by Josef von Sternberg, based on the early years of Empress Elisabeth of Austria.

Kreisler performed and recorded his own version of the first movement of Paganini's D major violin concerto. The movement is rescored and in some places reharmonised, and the orchestral introduction is completely rewritten in some places. The overall effect is of a late-nineteenth-century work.

The mausoleum of Fritz Kreisler in Woodlawn Cemetery

Kreisler owned several antique violins crafted by luthiers Antonio Stradivari, Pietro Guarneri, Giuseppe Guarneri, and Carlo Bergonzi, most of which eventually came to bear his name. He also owned a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin of 1860, which he often used as his second violin,^[9] and which he often loaned to the young prodigy Josef Hassid. In 1952 he donated his Giuseppe Guarneri to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. where it remains in use for performances given in the library.^[10]

On recordings, Kreisler's style resembles that of his younger contemporary Mischa Elman, with a tendency toward expansive tempi, a continuous and varied vibrato, expressive phrasing, and a melodic approach to passage-work. Kreisler makes considerable use of portamento and rubato. The two violinists' approaches are less similar in big works of the standard repertoire, such as Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, than in smaller pieces.

A trip to a Kreisler concert is recounted in Siegfried Sassoon's 1928 autobiographical novel Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.