Richard Sahla

Richard Sahla ( born September 17, 1855 in Graz, † April 30, 1931 in Biickeburg ) was an Austrian violinist, conductor and composer.

Life

Growing up in his hometown of Graz, he soon had a reputation as a musical prodigy. He played excellent violin and piano. At age 13, he began his violin studies as a pupil of Ferdinand David at the Leipzig Conservatory, which he finished as one of the most distinguished students of the institution. He made his debut as an eighteen- year-old in Leipzig in the Gewandhaus concert and earned enthusiastic applause for his technically sophisticated and musically stimulating game. His people's life can be inferred from the autobiography of his friend Wilhelm Kienzl. Both studied composition with Wilhelm Mayer- Rémy, were among his pupils, and the composer Ferruccio Busoni, Josef Gauby, Richard Heuberger, Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek and Felix Weingartner.

With the diploma of the Leipzig Conservatory, the Mecca of the violinist, in his pocket, he started as a 18 -year-old an impressive career as a violin virtuoso. He had the reputation of being one of the most talented violinists quickly. He coaxes from his Stradivarius unearthly tones. Gold purity is paired with the fragrance of sweet poetry, raved one critic in 1880 after a performance at the Vienna Court Opera.

On October 1, 1875, the twenty-year Sahla appeared as solo violinist for eight months in the Schaumburg- Lippe court orchestra. He then took a job as concertmaster in Gothenburg, Sweden and was from 1878 to 1880 member of the Vienna Court Opera, where he performed as a celebrated soloist and was treated by the Viennese press with the Spanish miracle violinist Pablo de Sarasate. Sahlas compositions for violin and piano: Spanish Dance, Nocturne No. 1 ( B- dur) and Nocturno No. 2 ( in E major ) are " appropriated Pablo de Sarasate in worship ."

In the fall of 1881, he joined with William Kienzl and singer Aglaya Orgeni on a 66 -concert concert tour across Hungary, Croatia, central and northern Germany, which was thereby temporarily adventurous that the impresario blew with the checkout. The difference on this trip Romanian Rhapsody devoted Sahla the friendly Princess Amalie Hill Teck, daughter of the Duke of Württemberg and niece of Queen Victoria of Great Britain.

From 1882 to early 1888 had Richard Sahla as first violinist at the Royal Court Opera in Hanover, where he acquired many friends. Among these, the pupil of Liszt, Ingeborg Bronsart, an internationally renowned pianist and composer, and her husband Hans Bronsart of Schellendorff, 1867-1887 Director of the Royal Theatre in Hanover included. Sahlas 1904 published Ballade for Violin and Piano is " appropriated Ingeborg of Bonsart ".

On April 1, 1888 he joined the post of court Kapellmeister in Biickeburg. He expanded the court orchestra and gave her guest concerts in Hanover, Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin. With the 38 - piece ensemble he attracted increasing national attention. 1911 composers such as Max Reger made ​​guest appearances with their works in Biickeburg as soloists Sahlas line. As a violin soloist he continues to be successful especially with the first Paganini's Violin Concerto and the Beethoven Violin Concerto. As a conductor, he was particularly focus the still largely unknown composers such as Berlioz, Brahms, Bruckner, Debussy, Liszt, Mahler, Sibelius, and Richard Strauss and Wagner. Many guest conductor Sahla the Berlin Philharmonic, and he conducted the premieres in Berlin of all six violin concertos of Henri Marteau, with whom he was as close friends with Max Reger. Arthur Nikisch ruled 1917 Sahla: "He is a god gifted, fine artist."

After the First World War broke out in hard times for Sahla. At times he had to earn as a coffee house in Hanover Geiger his bread. Temporarily he was talking to his wife, the court singer Anna- Ruth Sahla, a native American, in America. He had his last major appearance in 1925 in Biickeburg at a concert in celebration of his 70th birthday.

Autographs of his compositions are, inter alia, in the State Archives Biickeburg.

The violinist David -F. Tebbe came because of his research to making the thesis with the topic Richard Sahla - Violin Virtuoso, Maestro and forgotten composer (filed in 2012 by Professor Thomas Schipperges at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim ) on a number of other printed compositions Sahlas, with him whose grandson, the television editor and author Peter Sahla, a variety of unpublished compositions from his possession made ​​accessible, have yet to be published, including a complete Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor.

Works

• Transcriptions (studies ) about the songs you are my rest, The Linden Tree and the sea for violin solo ( 1874/1887 ) by Franz Schubert ( FEC Leuckart, Leipzig)
• Romanian Rhapsody for violin and piano (published by Paul Vogt )
• Love bliss by Emanuel Geibel (1892 )
• Mourning after poem by Nikolaus Lenau (1892 )
• Reverie R.Sahla ( Publisher: nail / Hannover)
• Schlummerliedchen for Violin and Piano ( Schweers & Haake 1899)
• Lullaby for violin solo ( for Richarda and Richard )
• Menuetto for violin with piano in A major, my dear wife for Richard 8 April 1900 ( Gries & Schorn nail )
• One did I hear her sing - Poem by Fr Rückert Set to Music for Voice and Piano Forte Biickeburg December 23, 1891 ( Adolf Nagel)
• Ballad of your Excellency Mrs. Ingeborg appropriated v. Bronsart. Biickeburg, November 1891 (C. F. Kahnt, Leipzig)
• Compositions for violin and piano composition for violin with piano: Spanish Dance, Nocturne No.1 Nocturne No. 2, (CF Kahnt 1904)
• Four Songs on Poems by Martha Big for voice and piano (1925 ): Lullaby, A map A I, Dream Oblivion ( Ries & Erler )
• Georg Friedrich Händel - Siciliano. For violin with piano accompaniment ( Arr.: RS FEC Leuckart )
• Two songs for contralto with viola and piano by Johannes Brahms; arr Richard Sahla ( N. Simrock )
• Various edits Svenska Folkvisor