Frantz Jehin-Prume
François -Henri Jehin who called himself Jehin - Prume in memory of his uncle, Frantz, ( born April 18, 1838 in Spa, † May 29, 1899 in Montreal) was a Belgian violinist and composer.
Life
Jehin grew up as the grandson of an organist family and began a four year old to learn the violin, which he continued in the class of his uncle François Prume at the Liège Conservatory. After his death in 1849 he took on the double name. He then went to the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in the violin class of Hubert Léonard. He received lessons in harmony with François -Joseph Fétis. In addition, he took courses at major violinists of his time, such as Charles de Bériot, Henryk Wieniawski and Henri Vieuxtemps. After concerts in his home town, Brussels and Liege, he traveled to Germany, Poland, Austria and Russia from 1855 to 1857, where he performed in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Back in Belgium, he devoted himself fully to composition, and gave numerous concerts in Holland, Belgium and France. For a few months he was in 1862 the first solo violinist at Liege " Théâtre royal ", the same year he undertook a tour of Germany and Scandinavia. As the successor of his teacher de Bériot appointed him in 1863 the Belgian King Leopold I to « Violoniste de la musique du roi particulière ".
At the invitation of Emperor Maximilian, who had married the daughter of the King of Belgium, he traveled to Mexico, where he gave several concerts at the Imperial Theatre. For fear of the then-raging power struggles in Mexico, he traveled via intermediate stations in Brazil and Cuba to New York, where he arrived in 1865. Shortly after the arrival, he traveled with his coming from Liege compatriot, the violinist and conductor Jules Hone (1833-1913), for hunting and fishing to Canada. Here he was immediately invited to a few concerts and met the singer Rosita del Vecchio, whom he married on 17 July 1866. This was followed by numerous concerts in his new home and in the U.S., including in 1867 at the invitation of the American president to the White House.
Jehin - Prume settled in Montreal and had a significant impact on the resulting musical life of the city. 1869-70 he undertook with pianist Théodore Ritter and the singer Carlotta Patti a concert tour through Canada and the United States. The sudden death of his wife shortly after the stillbirth of a son weighed him hard, but he married in 1882 the young singer Hortense Leduc and continued his concert career in the different provinces of the country continues.
Together with his young wife, he returned in 1882 for one last tour through Belgium and France to Europe. From 1885 he devoted himself mainly to teaching and founded in 1892 with fellow musicians the " Artistic Association of Montreal ," the first professional artists' association in the province of Quebec.
Work
With much enthusiasm, he devoted himself to composition. In an artistic resume, the most likely dates from the pen of his eldest son, not less than 88 opus numbers are enumerated, which emerged between 1857 and his death. He created most of his works for violin, including the two Violin Concertos, Op 14 and Op 31, further fantasies, Polonaises, Mazurkas, Cappriccios and etudes, as well as a violin sonata with piano accompaniment, Op 64 Also written by him cadenzas for violin concertos Viotti, Beethoven and de Bériot. In addition, he composed many tunes and romances for voice and piano, numerous choral works and Pope Leo XIII. oratory dedicated. The Schott -Verlag published some of his works.
Of the approximately 95 works attributed to him, there are currently only around 20 in the Canadian National Library and the Music Library of the University of Montreal.