Ruggiero Ricci

Ruggiero Ricci ( born July 24, 1918 in San Bruno, California, † 6 August 2012) was an American violinist.

Life

Ricci was born in 1918 the son of Italian immigrants. He was a child prodigy. As a five year old, he was taught by Louis Persinger. The age of ten he entered San Francisco for the first time publicly. A year later he made his debut with the Violin Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in New York's Carnegie Hall. In 1932 he undertook his first European tour. Especially his interpretations of Paganini made ​​Ricci quickly famous. During the Second World War there was a longer pause. In 1946, he took in his Carnegie Hall concert activity again. In 1949 he was one of the first American musicians to a concert tour to Germany.

As of 1970, Ricci devoted increasingly to teaching, first at the University of Indiana, then at the Juilliard School in New York. From 1989 to 2002 he was a visiting professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. Later in the mature age he expressed himself with bitterness about his early prodigy appearances ( " you should provide all the wonders of children with their parents on the wall and shoot them, then it would finally end of it ").

His published by Decca recordings (24 Caprices by Niccolò Paganini, Tzigane by Maurice Ravel, the two violin concertos by Sergei Prokofiev, conducted by Ernest Ansermet ) testify to a strong and harsh personality and an exceptional technique that never, by the aesthetics but always looking for the authenticity of both the sound and the meaning.

Bibliography

  • Harald Eggebrecht: Large violinist: Kreisler, Heifetz, Oistrakh, Mother, Hahn & Co. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-492-04264-3
  • Helmut Mauro: No normal child - wonder violinist Ruggiero Ricci ( detailed text interview ) In: opera and concert. 8 /1993. Pp. 26-33, numerous historical figures. Publisher A.Hanuschik. Munich 1993.
  • Helmut Mauro: The violinist Ruggiero Ricci. Radio broadcast ( 60 ' Bavaria 2 ) for Bayerischer Rundfunk. Munich, 1993.
  • Ralf Noltensmeier: Great violin teachers in the interview, Vol 1: Bron, David, Krebber, Peinemann Ricci, Schneeberger, ZSIGMONDY Götzelmann, Kiel 1997, ISBN 3-9805016-2-0.
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