Andantino In A Minor - Music

Joseph Joachim June 28 1831 – August 15 1907 IPA /ˈjoʊɑːxɪːm/ Was A Hungarian Violinist Conductor Composer And Teacher. He Is Regarded As One Of The Most Influential Violinists Of All Time. Joseph Joachim Was Born In Kittsee Kopčany / Köpcsény Near Bratislava And Eisenstadt In Today's Burgenland Area Of Austria. He Was The Seventh Of Eight Children Born To Julius And Fanny Joachim. His Father Was A Wool Merchant. Joachim Was Born Jewish And Spent His Infancy As A Member Of The Kittsee Kehilla Jewish Community One Of Hungary's Prominent Sheva Kehillot Hebrew For Seven Communities Under The Protectorate Of The Esterházy Family.
In 1833 His Family Moved To Pest Where He Studied Violin With Stanislaus Serwaczynski The Concertmaster Of The Opera In Pest. Serwaczynski Later Moved To Lublin Poland Where He Taught Wieniawski . In 1839 Joachim Continued His Studies At The Vienna Conservatory Briefly With Miska Hauser And Georg Hellmesberger Sr. Finally —and Most Significantly — With Joseph Böhm . He Was Taken By His Cousin Fanny Wittgenstein Grandmother Of The Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein To Live And Study In Leipzig Where He Became A Protégé Of Felix Mendelssohn. In His Début Performance In The Leipzig Gewandhaus He Played The Otello Fantasy By Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst. The Twelve-Year-Old Joachim's 1844 Performance Of The Beethoven Violin Concerto In London Under Mendelssohn's Baton Was A Triumph And Helped To Establish That Work In The Repertory. Joachim Remained A Favorite With The English Public For The Rest Of His Career.
Following Mendelssohn's Death Joachim Stayed Briefly In Leipzig Teaching At The Conservatorium And Playing On The First Desk Of The Gewandhaus Orchestra With Ferdinand David. In 1848 Franz Liszt Took Up Residence In Weimar Determined To Re-Establish The Town's Reputation As The Athens Of Germany. There He Gathered A Circle Of Young Avante-Garde Disciples Vocally Opposed To The Conservatism Of The Leipzig Circle. Joachim Was Amongst The First Of These. He Served Liszt As Concertmaster And For Several Years Enthusiastically Embraced The New "psychological Music" As He Called It. In 1852 He Moved To Hanover At The Same Time Dissociating Himself From The Musical Ideals Of The 'New German School' Liszt Richard Wagner Hector Berlioz And Their Followers As Defined By Journalist Franz Brendel And Instead Making Common Cause With Robert Schumann Clara Schumann And Johannes Brahms. His Break With Liszt Became Final In August Of 1857 When Joachim Wrote To His Former Mentor "I Am Completely Out Of Sympathy With Your Music It Contradicts Everything Which From Early Youth I Have Taken As Mental Nourishment From The Spirit Of Our Great Masters." Joseph And Amalie Joachim.
Joachim's Time In Hanover Was His Most Prolific Period Of Composition. During This Time He Frequently Performed With Clara Schumann And With Brahms Both In Private And In Public. In 1860 Brahms And Joachim Jointly Wrote A Manifesto Against The "progressive" Music Of The 'New German' School In Reaction To The Polemics Of Brendel's Neue Zeitschrift Für Musik. This Manifesto Met With A Mixed Reception Being Heavily Derided By Followers Of Wagner. Citation Needed On May 10 1863 Joachim Married The Contralto Amalie Schneeweiss Stage Name Amalie Weiss 1839-99 . Amalie Gave Up Her Own Promising Career As An Opera Singer And Gave Birth To Six Children. She Did Continue To Perform In Oratorios And To Give Lieder Recitals. In 1865 Joachim Quit The Service Of The King Of Hanover In Protest When The Intendant Of The Opera Refused To Advance One Of The Orchestral Players Jakob Grün Because Of The Latter's Jewish Birth. 1 In 1866 Joachim Moved To Berlin Where He Became Founding Director Of The Royal Academy Of Music. There He Founded An Orchestra And In 1869 The Joachim String Quartet Which Quickly Gained A Reputation As Europe's Finest.
In 1884 Joachim And His Wife Separated After He Became Convinced That She Was Having An Affair With The Publisher Fritz Simrock. Brahms Certain That Joachim's Suspicions Were Groundless Wrote A Sympathetic Letter To Amalie Which She Later Produced As Evidence In Joachim's Divorce Proceeding Against Her. This Led To A Cooling Of Brahms And Joachim's Friendship Which Was Not Restored Until Some Years Later When Brahms Composed The Double Concerto In A Minor For Violin And Cello Op. 102 As A Peace Offering To His Old Friend.
In Berlin On August 17 1903 Joachim Recorded Five Sides For The Gramophone & Typewriter Ltd G&T Which Remain A Fascinating And Valuable Source Of Information About 19th-Century Styles Of Violin Playing. He Is The Earliest Violinist Of Distinction Known To Have Recorded.
Joachim's Portrait Was Twice Painted By Philip De Laszlo. A Portrait Of Joachim Was Painted By John Singer Sargent And Presented To Him At The Jubilee Celebration Of His English Debut In London In 1904.
Joachim Remained In Berlin Until His Death From Actinomycosis In 1907.
Discography
•Joachim Romance In C Major Op. 20 Played By Composer . Ref 047906. Matrix 218y.
•Bach 1st Sonata For Violin In G Minor BWV 1001 Prelude. Ref 047903. Matrix 204y.
•Bach 1st Partita For Violin B Minor BWV 1022 Bourree. Ref 047904. Matrix 205y.
•Brahms Hungarian Dance WoO 1 No 1. Ref 037904 Matrix 219i French Pressing .
•Brahms Hungarian Dance WoO 1 No 2. Ref 037905 Matrix 217i French Pressing .
•Brahms Hungarian Dance WoO 1 No 1. Ref 047904 Matrix 219y German Pressing .
•Brahms Hungarian Dance WoO 1 No 2. Ref 047905 Matrix 217y German Pressing .
Original Pressings Are Single-Sided And Have A Flat Red G&T Label. Later Reeditions Have A Black G&T Label Or From 1909 A Label Showing The 'His Master's Voice' Trade-Mark And Those Made For The German Market Are Double-Sided. They Are Better In Quality. Among The Most Notable Of Joachim's Achievements Were The Revivals Of Bach's Sonatas And Partitas For Solo Violin BWV 1001-1006 And Particularly Of Beethoven's Violin Concerto In D Major Op. 61. Joachim Was Among The First To Play Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto In E Minor Which He Studied With The Composer. Joachim Played A Pivotal Role In The Career Of Brahms And Remained A Tireless Advocate Of Brahms's Compositions Through All The Vicissitudes Of Their Friendship. He Conducted The English Premiere Of Brahms's Symphony No. 1 In C Minor.
A Number Of Joachim's Composer Colleagues Including Schumann Brahms Bruch And Dvořák Composed Concerti With Joachim In Mind Many Of Which Entered The Standard Repertory. Nevertheless Joachim's Solo Repertoire Remained Relatively Restricted. Despite His Close Friendship With Brahms Joachim Performed The Brahms Concerto D Major Op. 77 Only Six Times In His Career. He Never Performed Schumann's Violin Concerto In D Minor Which Schumann Wrote Especially For Him Or Dvořák's Violin Concerto In A Minor. The Most Unusual Work Written For Joachim Was The F-A-E Sonata A Collaboration Between Schumann Brahms And Albert Dietrich Based Upon The Initials Of Joachim's Motto Frei Aber Einsam Free But Lonely . Although The Sonata Is Rarely Performed In Its Entirety The Third Movement The Scherzo In C Minor Composed By Brahms Is Still Frequently Played Today.
Joachim's Own Compositions Are Less Well Known. He Has A Reputation As A Composer Of A Short But Distinguished Catalogue Of Works. Among His Compositions Are Various Works For The Violin Including Three Concerti And Overtures To Shakespeare's Hamlet And Henry IV. He Also Wrote Cadenzas For A Number Of Other Composers' Concerti Including The Beethoven And Brahms Concerti . His Most Highly Regarded Composition Is His Hungarian Concerto Violin Concerto No 2 In D Minor Op. 11.
The English Poet Robert Bridges Wrote A Sonnet About Joachim In His First Major Work Of Poetry The Growth Of Love. 2 Joseph Joachim.
•As A Child Joachim Played A Guarneri Del Gesù Which He Gave To Felix Schumann After He Acquired His First Stradivarius.
•In His Hanover Years Joachim Played On A Guadagnini Made In 1767. 3 •He Later Bought A 1714 Stradivarius Which He Played Until 1885. 4 •He Exchanged This Instrument For A 1713 Stradivarius Which Was Later Acquired By Robert Von Mendelssohn And Lent For Life To Joachim's Student Karl Klingler.
•A 1714 Stradivarius "de Barreau/Joachim" Which He Bought In 1881 And Sold In 1897 Later Owned By Richard Von Mendelssohn Baron Knoop And Karl Klingler.. 5 •A 1698 Joachim Stradivarius Is Held By The Royal Academy Of Music 6 •A Violin The Ex-Joachim Stradivarius Of 1715 Is Currently Held By The Collezione Civica Del Comune Di Cremona. 7 It Was Presented To Joachim On The Occasion Of His Jubilee Celebration In 1889.
•Another 1715 Stradivarius The Joachim-Aranyi. 8 •Another 1715 Stradivarius Later Owned By George Eastman 9 •A 1722 Stradivarius Later Owned By Burmester Mischa Elman And Josef Suk. 10 •Another 1722 Stradivarius Also Owned By The Mendelssohn Family. 11 •A 1723 Stradivarius 12 •A 1725 Stradivarius Later Owned By Norbert Brainin 13 Currently Played By Rainer Küchl.
•A 1727 Stradivarius Currently Owned By Suntory Ltd. 14 •The Ex Joachim Joseph Vieland Viola By Gasparo Da Salo Brescia Before 1609 Is Held By The Shrine To Music No. 3368 15 16 •According To The Henley Atlas Of Violin Makers During The Time He Spent In France Joachim Performed On A Violin Made By French Luthier Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin.
•A Violin By Francesco Ruggeri Bearing The Label Nicolaus Amati 17 •Joachim Also Played A Guarneri Del Gesu Loaned By The Wittgenstein Family Perhaps A 1737 Guarneri Del Gesu? 18 •A Johannes Theodorus Cuypers Anno 1807 Was Bought By Joachim In The Mid 19th Century And Taken On Tour Throughout Europe. There Is Also Evidence That The Instrument Was Played By Joachim In A Recital In Paris A Half Century Later In 1895. The Same Instrument Was Also Played By Fritz Kreisler In A 1955 Carnegie Hall Concert. 19 •A 1747 Pietro Guarneri 20 •A 1767 Guadagnini 3 •A 1775 Guadagnini 21 •A Carlo Testore Violin 22 •Among Joachim's Bows Was A Tourte Previously Owned By Ernst.
He Is Survived By Relatives In The United States Mainly The Bass Family. Edit Compositions
•Op. 1 Andantino And Allegro Scherzoso For Violin And Piano 1848 Dedicated To Joseph Böhm •Op. 2 Three Pieces Circa 1848-1852 Romanze Fantasiestück Eine Frühlingsfantasie.
•Op. 3 Violin Concerto In One Movement G Minor Dedicated To Franz Liszt 1851 •Op. 4 "Hamlet" Overture 1853 •Op. 5 Three Pieces For Violin And Piano Lindenrauschen Abendglocken Ballade Dedicated To Gisela Von Arnim •Op. 6 "Demetrius" Overture Herman Grimm Dedicated To Franz Liszt •Op. 7 "Henry IV" Overture 1854 •Op. 8 Overture To A Comedy By Gozzi 1854 •Op. 9 Hebrew Melodies For Viola And Piano
•Op. 10 Variations For Viola And Piano Circa 1860 •Op. 11 Violin Concerto No. 2 In D Minor "in The Hungarian Manner" 1861 •Op. 12 Notturno For Violin And Orchestra In A Major 1858 •Violin Concerto No. 3 In G Major 1875 •Op. 13 Elegiac Overture "In Memoriam Heinrich Von Kleist" Ca. 1877 •Op. 14 Szene Der Marfa From Friedrich Schiller's Unfinished Drama "Demetrius" Ca. 1869 •WoO Ich Hab' Im Traum Geweinet For Voice And Piano Pub. Wigand 1854.
•Scene From Schiller's Demetrius 1878 •WoO Rain Rain And Sun Merlin's Song Tennyson Pub. C. Kegan & Co. 1880.
•Melodrama Zu Einer Schillergedenkfeier Unpublished Autograph In Hamburg Staats- Und Universitätsbibliothek •Overture In C Major Konzertouvertüre Zum Geburtstag Des Kaisers 1896 •Two Marches For Orchestra
•Andantino In A Minor For Violin And Orchestra Also For Violin And Piano •Romance In B Flat Major For Violin And Piano
•Romance In C Major For Violin And Piano
•Variationen Über Ein Irisches Elfenlied For Piano
•Variations For Violin And Orchestra In E Minor Dedicated To Pablo Sarasate Ca. 1879 Joachim Also Composed Cadenzas For Beethoven Concerto In D Major Op. 61 Brahms Concerto In D Major Op. 77 Kreutzer Concerto No. 19 In D Minor Mozart Aria From Il Re Pastore Concerto In D Major K. 218 And Concerto In A Major K 219 Rode Concerto No. 10 In B Minor And Concerto No. 11 In D Major Spohr Concerto In A Minor Op. 47 Gesangsszene Tartini Sonata In G Minor Devil's Trill And Viotti Concerto No 22 In A Minor. He Also Made A Virtuosic Transcription For Violin And Piano Of All 21 Of Brahms's Hungarian Dances. In Addition In 1855 He Made A Version For Full Orchestra Of Schubert's Grand Duo In C Major For Piano Duet D. 812 Which Many Scholars At That Time Considered Probably Incorrectly To Be A Draft Or Piano Reduction Of A Lost Symphony.
He Produced Numerous Editions Of Music Many In Collaboration With Andreas Moser.
Recordings Joseph Joachim At Age 53.
Recordings By Joseph Joachim 1903 •J. S. Bach Partita For Violin Solo No 1 In B Minor BWV 1002 7th Movement Tempo Di Bourée Joseph Joachim Violin Pearl Catalog 9851 Also On Testament 749677132323 .
•Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dances 21 For Piano 4 Hands WoO 1 No 1 In G Minor Arr. Joachim Joseph Joachim Violin Opal Recordings Also On Testament 749677132323 .
•Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 2 In D Minor Arr. Joachim Joseph Joachim Violin Grammophon Catalogue # 047905 HMV D88.
•J. Joachim Romance In C Major Joseph Joachim Violin Pearl Catalog 9851
Recordings Of Joachim's Compositions
•Violin Concerto No. 2 In D Minor Op. 11 "In The Hungarian Style" Rachel Barton Pine Violin Carlos Kalmar Conductor Chicago Symphony Orchestra Cedille Records CDR 90000 068 Liner Notes •Violin Concerto No. 2 In D Minor Op. 11 "In The Hungarian Style" Elmar Oliviera Violin Leon Botstein Conductor London Philharmonic IMP
•Violin Concerto No. 2 In D Minor Op. 11 "In The Hungarian Style" Aaron Rosand Violin Louis De Froment Conductor Luxembourg Radio/Television Symphony Orchestra Vox Catalog # 5102
•Violin Concerto No. 3 Takako Nishizaki Violin Meir Minsky Conductor Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Naxos # 8554733
•Hamlet Overture Op. 4 Meir Minsky Conductor Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Naxos # 8554733
•Elegische Ouvertüre Op. 13 Meir Minsky Conductor Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Naxos # 8554733
•Andantino And Allegro Scherzoso Op. 1 Andantino Marat Bisengaliev Violin John Lenehan Piano Naxos # 553026
•Romance In B Flat Major Marat Bisengaliev Violin John Lenehan Piano Naxos # 553026
•Hebrew Melodies Op. 9 Anna Barbara Dütschler Viola Marc Pantillon Piano Claves # 9905
•Heinrich IV Overture Op. 7 2 Pianos Arr. Johannes Brahms Duo Egri-Pertis Hungaroton # 32003
•Variations For Viola And Piano Op. 10 Numerous Recordings •Variations For Violin And Orchestra In E Minor Vilmos Szabadi Violin László Kovács Conductor North Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Hungaroton # 32185
Joachim's Students Joseph Joachim And The Young Franz Von Vecsey. Note The Strongly Incurving Arthritic First Finger Of His Left Hand. The Chair In Which He Is Sitting Was A Special Present To Him. He Willed It To Donald Francis Tovey And It Is Now Owned By The University Of Edinburgh Museum. 23 •Leopold Auer 1845—1930 Violinist And Teacher Studied With Joachim In Hanover.
•Willy Burmester
•Will Marion Cook
•Carl Courvoisier 1846-1908 Author Of Technics Of Violin Playing On Joachim's Method London The Strad Library No. I 1894.
•Sam Franko
•Karol Haliř 1859-1909 Bohemian Violinist Member Of The Joachim Quartet.
•Gustav Hille
•Willy Hess
•Jenő Hubay Violinist Composer.
•Bronisław Huberman 1882-1947 24 •Karl Klingler Violinist Of The Klingler Quartet And Joachim's Successor At The Berlin Hochschule. Klingler Was The Teacher Of Shinichi Suzuki.
•Joseph Kotek - Yosif / Josef. Russian Violinist. 1855-1885 •Pietro Melani
•W. J. Meyer 1853-1940 •Andreas Moser 1859-1925 Violinist And Assistant To Joachim. Moser Wrote The First Biography Of Joachim. He Helped Recover Original Scores Of J.S. Bach's Sonate E Partite Per Violino Solo And Collaborated With Him On Numerous Editions.
•Tivadar Nachèz Budapest 1859 - Lausanne 1930 •Enrico Polo 1868 - 1953 .
•Maud Powell 1867-1920 American Violinist 25 •Willibald Richter 1860-1929 German-Born English Pianist Organist And Teacher. Student Friend And Accompanist Of Joachim. Student Of Haupt Lebert Liszt Mischalek And Oscar. Founded College Of Music At Leicester.
•Camillo Ritter Teacher Of William Primrose
•Ossip Schnirlin ? - 1937 •Maria Soldat-Röger 1863-1955 •Theodore Spiering 1871-1925 American Violinist. Born In St. Louis Lived In Chicago. Concertmaster 1909-1911 New York Philharmonic.
•Franz Von Vecsey Budapest 1893-1935 Studied With Hubay Then Joachim. Dedicatee Of The Sibelius Violin Concerto.
•Alfred Wittenberg
Literature Joseph Joachim
•Adolph Kohut Josef Joachim. Ein Lebens- Und Künstlerbild. Festschrift Zu Seinem 60. Geburtstage Am 28. Juni 1891 Berlin A. Glas 1891.
•Johannes Joachim And Andreas Moser Eds. Briefe Von Und An Joseph Joachim 3 Vols. Berlin Julius Bard 1911-1913
•Andreas Moser Ed. Johannes Brahms Im Briefwechsel Mit Joseph Joachim 2nd Ed. Berlin Deutsche Brahms-Gesellschaft 1912.
•Letters From And To Joseph Joachim Selected And Translated By Nora Bickley With A Preface By J. A. Fuller-Maitland New York Vienna House 1972.
•Andreas Moser Joseph Joachim Ein Lebensbild 2 Vols. Berlin Verlag Der Deutschen Brahms-Gesellschaft Vol. 1 1908 Vol. 2 1910.
•Andreas Moser Joseph Joachim A Biography Translated By Lilla Durham Introduction By J. A. Fuller Maitland London Philip Wellby 1901.
•J. A. Fuller-Maitland Joseph Joachim London & New York John Lane 1905.
•F. G. E. Joseph Joachim Musical Times 48/775 September 1 1907 577-583.
•Hans Joachim Moser Joseph Joachim Sechsundneunzigstes Neujahrsblatt Der Allgemeinen Musikgesellschaft In Zürich Zürich & Leipzig Hug & Co. 1908
•Karl Storck Joseph Joachim Eine Studie Leipzig Hermann Seemann Nachfolger N.D.
•Anne Russell Joachim The Etude December 1932 884-885.
•Siegfried Borris Joseph Joachim Zum 65. Todestag Oesterreichische Musikzeitschrift XXVII June 1972 352-355.
•Barrett Stoll Joseph Joachim Violinist Pedagogue And Composer Ph.D. Diss. Univ. Of Iowa 1978.
•Brigitte Massin Les Joachim Une Famille De Musiciens Paris Fayard 1999. ISBN 2-213-60418-5
•Otto Biba "Ihr Sie Hochachtender Dankbarer Schüler Peppi" Joseph Joachims Jugend Im Spiegel Bislang Unveröffentlicher Briefe Die Tonkunst Jg. 1 Nr. 3 Juli 2007 200-204.
•Beatrix Borchard Stimme Und Geige Amalie Und Joseph Joachim Biographie Und Interpretationsgeschichte Wien Köln Weimar Böhlau Verlag 2005.
•Beatrix Borchard Groß-Männlich-Deutsch? Zur Rolle Joseph Joachims Für Das Deutsche Musikleben In Der Wilhelminischen Zeit Die Tonkunst Jg. 1 Nr. 3 Juli 2007 218-231.
•Dietmar Shenk Aus Einer Gründerzeit Joseph Joachim Die Berliner Hochschule Für Musik Und Der Deutsch-Französische Krieg Die Tonkunst Jg. 1 Nr. 3 Juli 2007 232-246.
•Ute Bär Sie Wissen Ja Wie Gerne Ich Selbst Öffentlich Mit Ihnen Musicire! Clara Schumann Und Joseph Joachim Die Tonkunst Jg. 1 Nr. 3 Juli 2007 247-257.
•Gerhard Winkler Ed. Geigen-Spiel-Kunst Joseph Joachim Und Der "Wahre" Fortschritt Burgenländische Heimatblätter Jg. 69 Nr. 2 2007.
•Robert W. Eshbach Der Geigerkönig Joseph Joachim As Performer Die Tonkunst Jg. 1 Nr. 3 Juli 2007 205-217.
•Robert W. Eshbach Verehrter Freund! Liebes Kind! Liebster Jo! Mein Einzig Licht. Intimate Letters In Brahms's Freundeskreis Die Tonkunst Jg. 2 Nr. 2 April 2008 178-193.
•Robert W. Eshbach Free But Lonely The Education Of Joseph Joachim 1831-1866 Forthcoming. read less