Rosé Quartet

The Rosé Quartet was founded in 1882 by Arnold Rosé in Vienna String Quartet, which gave his last concert in exile in London in 1945. It was one of the most important ensembles in the first decades of the 20th century.

History

Only a short time after the beginning of his career as a concert master of the Vienna Opera Orchestra and a member of the Vienna Philharmonic founded the 19 -year-old Arnold Rosé his first string quartet. This learned during the more than 60 -year history, no matter how many changes in the cast, the peak of its effect reached it probably between 1905 and 1920.

The Rosé Quartet saw himself as the heir to the Hellmesberger Quartet (1849-1901) and used accordingly also an emotionally charged, sensual game that was widely held in its character as characteristic of the ' Vienna Note '.

In addition to the regular six to eight Subskriptionkonzerten per season in Vienna, the quartet has toured completed (including 1928 in the USA) and was also one of the internationally best-known of his time. It devoted himself beside the classical repertoire (especially Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert) and the works of contemporary composers, from which it brought many to premieres or premieres. For example quartets of Johannes Brahms, Hans Gál, Karl Goldmark, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Hans Pfitzner, Franz Schmidt, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Karl Weigl and others.

After the "Anschluss " of Austria in March 1938, the more than 75 -year-old Arnold Rosé was forced as a Jew to emigrate. This led him to London in 1939, where he continued performing with a partly new quartet. Its last public concert took place in 1945, barely a year before the death of his legendary founder.

Members

• Violin: Arnold Rosé (1882-1945)
• Violin: Egghard Julius the Younger (1882-1883), Anton Loh (1884-1889), August Siebert (1890-1896), Albert Rich Bach (1897-1904), Paul Fischer (1905-1938)
• Viola: Anton Loh (1882-1883), Sigismund Bachrich (1884-1894), Hugo von Steiner (1895-1901), Anton Ruzitska (1901-1929), Max Handl (1930-1933), Julius Stwertka (1934-1938)
• Cello: Edward Rosé (1882-1883), Reinhold Hummer (1884-1900), Friedrich Buxbaum (1901-1920), Anton Walter (1921 ), Friedrich Buxbaum ( 1922-1945 )