Английская Википедия:Hellmesberger Quartet
The Hellmesberger Quartet was a string quartet formed in Vienna in 1849. It was founded by Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. and was the first permanent named String Quartet.Шаблон:Citation needed
Composition
Violinist Leopold Jansa had started a string quartet in 1845. Hellmesberger took over from Jansa in 1849, retaining the other members.[1] Its initial composition was:
- Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. (1st violin)
- Carl Heissler (2nd violin)
- Matthias Durst (viola)
- Carl Schlesinger (cello)
The quartet's composition remained "pretty constant until the mid-1860s".[2]
At one point,Шаблон:When the composition was:
- Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr. (1st violin)
- Adolph Brodsky (2nd violin), left Vienna in 1870
- Sigismund Bachrich (viola)
- David Popper (cello), from 1868 to 1870[2]
Hellmesberger's son, Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., joined the quartet in 1870 to play the second violin and became leader in 1891.
Ferdinand Hellmesberger, the son of Joseph Sr. and brother of Joseph Jr., joined in 1883 to play the cello.
Importance
The Quartet played an important role in Vienna's musical life through the performance of quartets from Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Franz Schubert, premiering several of Brahms' and Schubert's chamber works.[3]
It commissioned and premiered Antonín Dvořák's String Quartet No. 11, Op. 61, composed in 1881.
The programme of the opening concert on November 4, 1849 included Joseph Haydn's Quartet in C, Op. 76, No. 3, Spohr's Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 124,Шаблон:Clarify and Beethoven's Quartet in F, Op. 59 No. 1.
Notes
References
External links
- Biographies of members of the Hellmesberger family
- Frederick H. Martens, "Violin Mastery: Talks with master violinists and teachers" at Project Gutenberg, including information about the Hellmesberger Quartet
- Hellmesberger family biographies
- ↑ Hellmesberger family biographies, under External links
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Potter, The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet, p.44
- ↑ Hellmesberger family biographies under External links
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