Ernst Mielck
Ernst Leopold Christian Mielck ( born October 24, 1877 in Vyborg, Finnish Viipuri, † October 22, 1899 in Locarno ) was a Finnish composer and pianist.
Mielck was the son of a German -born businessman and a Finland-Swedish mother. The home was heavily culturally and musically oriented so that the weak and sickly from the beginning son Ernst ( only ) with 10 years also received his first piano lessons with Albert Tietz in Vyborg. In 1891 he was sent for further musical training to Berlin at the Stern'sche Conservatory. He continued intermittently until 1898 in Berlin, where he was also a private pupil of Max Bruch, who expressed himself very highly of him.
1894 Mielck debuted as a pianist in Vyborg with the Piano Concerto in G Minor by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, 1897, he performed in Helsinki, where his Symphony in F minor, his most important work was performed. His works are all created in just four years. His early death at age 22 - he died of tuberculosis in Locarno on Lake Maggiore - made all the hopes, here is a composer of importance ( as a counterpoint to Jean Sibelius) will develop naught.
Musically Mielck in his Symphony of the great composer Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Mendelssohn. But is unmistakable, the influence of ( pleasant ) musical language of his teacher Max Bruch.
Works
- Symphony in F minor, Op 4 (1897 )
- Dramatic Overture
- Overture to Macbeth
- Concert Piece for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op 8 (1898 )
- Concert Piece for Piano and Orchestra in E minor, Op 9 (1898 )
- Finnish Suite for Orchestra Op 10 (1899 )
- 1 String Quartet
- 1 String Quintet
- 3 Fantasy Pieces about Finnish polka motifs for piano
- Old Bohemian carol for mixed choir
- Ancient Germanic Yule for baritone, male chorus and orchestra
- Songs
- Other piano works