Gustav Hollaender

Gustav Hollaender (* February 15, 1855 in Leobschutz; † December 4, 1915 in Berlin) was a German violinist, conductor and composer.

Life

As the son of the physician Siegmund Hollaender and his wife Renette Danzig he initially grew in Leobschutz, then in Berlin. His younger brothers were the later composer Victor Hollaender and the later writer Felix Hollaender. He first studied violin at the Leipzig Conservatory with Ferdinand David, then at the Royal College of Academic performers Tonkunst Berlin with Joseph Joachim and Friedrich Kiel.

His independent artistic effectiveness, he began as royal chamber musician at the Berlin Court Opera. In 1877 he was hired as a violin teacher at F. Kullak'schen Music Institute. On a concert tour to Austria, he accompanied the Coloratursängerin Carlotta Patti, sister of Adelina, as a solo player. With Xaver Scharwenka (piano) and Henry Grunfeld (cello), he formed a piano trio and designed 1871-1881 chamber music concerts in the Berlin Sing- Akademie. This was followed in 1881 an appeal to Cologne as concertmaster of the local Gurzenich concerts as violin teacher at the music school and in 1884 the Rhenish a job as first concertmaster at the Cologne theater. In Cologne, he also founded the Gurzenich Quartet with Emil Bare (second violin), Joseph Schwartz ( viola) and Friedrich Griitzmacher junior ( cello ), which completed a successful concert tours in Germany, Belgium, England, Italy and Denmark.

In 1894 he took over after the death of Jenny Meyer Stern'sche the Conservatory in Berlin. Under his leadership the Conservatory flourished. It was attended by more than a thousand students per year, and came out without any subsidy.

With Willy nicking, Heinrich Brandler and Leo Schrattenholz he founded again a string quartet, which he added after leaving the latter two by Walther Rampelmann and Anton Hecking.

As a composer, he has created works for violin and orchestra, including three violin concertos, as well as a number of works for violin and piano. He also published some Studies for teaching purposes. Stylistically, he remained committed to the romance.

Descendants

• Melanie Hollaender (* 1880) was a teacher for recitation, was named after her marriage Heart Hollaender and emigrated in 1939.
• Kurt Hollaender (* 1885) was a merchant and founded by the " linearization " of the Stern Conservatory in the Jewish private music school Hollaender, which still existed until 1940 in Berlin -Charlottenburg in the Sybelstraße 9. On October 27, 1941, he and his wife Herta was dispossessed, deported to the Lodz ghetto and murdered there.
• Susanne Hollaender (* 1892) was a singer and was called after their marriage Landsberg. She worked as a co-owner also of the Jewish private music school Hollaender On 29 January 1943 they were deported to Auschwitz and murdered there a short time later.