Ferdinand Laub
Ferdinand Laub ( born January 19, 1832 in Prague, † March 17, 1875 in Gries near Bozen - Quirein ) was a Bohemian violinist and composer.
Life
To the music his father, a violinist and music teacher Erasmus leaves him led. On November 26, 1838, he performed for the first time at the inn U Doušů on the Wenceslas Square in Prague. He organized his first concert on 27 February 1842. March 29, 1846, he played with other graduates before Hector Berlioz and Franz Liszt. Berlioz invited him to Paris then a. Then denied foliage concerts in Vienna, including the Emperor Ferdinand, and two years as a soloist of a theater orchestra. In 1851 he sat down next to Charles -Auguste de Bériot, Henri Vieuxtemps and others at the First World Exhibition in part and was hailed by critics as virtuoso world.
From 1853 to 1855 he is at the suggestion of Franz Liszt concert in Weimar and the chamber virtuoso and honorary citizen appointed in Saxony- Weimar. Then, he needs to cure (difficulty breathing ) to Marienbad. In the same year foliage is a professor of the Stern Conservatory and Theodor Kullak New Academy of Music, where he founded an excellent quartet, with which he played with preference works by Joseph Haydn. Also named one leaves the concert master of the Prussian Court Opera and the Prussian chamber virtuoso.
It followed in the years 1857-1865 concert tours to Prague, Denmark, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Germany, Belgium, France, Holland, together with Adelina Patti to England, Norway and Sweden. In Gothenburg, he met in 1860 Bedrich Smetana and organized together with him two concerts.
In 1863 he was appointed as the successor of Joseph Mayseder the Austrian chamber virtuoso. In 1866, for appointment as a professor of the Conservatory in Moscow and concertmaster and primacy of the Quintet of the Russian Musical Society. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky designated leaves as the greatest violinists of his time and dedicated his third string quartet in E flat minor, Op 30 (1876 ).
Because of respiratory disease and liver injury, he was forced to abandon his duties in Moscow. After an unsuccessful cure in Karlsbad he moved to Meran, but died on the way there in Gries. His remains were interred in Prague Olšany.
Work
Not only as a violin virtuoso, also known as concert master and music teacher he made a name for himself. His students included, among others, Adolf Brodsky Jan Hřímal and his son, composer and violinist Váša foliage. In addition, he also wrote some poems.
Compositions
- Polonaise
- Quartet in C sharp minor for Strings
- Romance for Violin and Piano et Improptu, Op. 7
Monuments
- Laubov Museum in Křivoklát
- Foliage monument of Vojtěch Sapíka Seminářská zahrada in Prague