Robert Volkmann

Friedrich Robert Volkmann ( born April 6, 1815 in Lommatzsch at Meissen, † October 30, 1883 in Budapest ) was a German composer.

Life

Volkmann, the son of a cantor, since his childhood with music was familiar and was singing, piano, organ, violin and cello lessons. After briefly attending high school in Freiberg (1832 /33) he completed from 1833 to 1835 the teacher training college. At the same time he received further music lessons. 1836 moved Volkmann to Leipzig in order to, inter alia, further training in private lessons at the local cantor of St. Nicholas Church Carl Friedrich Becker. Upon completion of the lesson Volkmann received in 1839 a position as a singing teacher in Prague, however, did not appeal to him much. In 1841 he moved to Budapest, where he worked until 1844 as a private teacher and correspondent of the Vienna General Music Zeitung. After a short period of freelancing, he was forced in 1848 to look for a job again and was choir director and organist at the Israeli Reform temple. The early 1850s he was the first successes as a composer recorded ( especially with his Second Piano Trio). In 1854 lived Volkmann in Vienna, but without success to achieve the hoped-for (financial). Therefore, in 1858 he returned again to Budapest, where he spent the rest of his life. In the 1860s, he enjoyed growing international recognition and created many of his most important works. Since about 1870, he hardly composed. 1875 Volkmann eventually became Professor of Composition at the State Academy in Budapest, a post he held until his death.

Style

Volkmann can be somewhere between Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, with whom he was a personal friend, classify. However, the starting point for his work is the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Trias - Joseph Haydn - Ludwig van Beethoven. Part way, even " Hungarian " elements and individual influences of the New German School apprehend them. However, Volkmann whole needs to be considered rather conservative. Due to the many different influences it can also be attributed to any particular flow. Volkmann favored smaller forms like piano pieces and songs, but also composed several large-scale works. While his smaller works sometimes run the risk of acting Biedermeier exhibit its larger sometimes some inability to concentrate on a single thought to some. Others, however, make this deficiency by very closed, consistently crafted structures for it. Of his six string quartets are the last three highly significant, while the first three only sound chamber music, especially suitable for home use pose. Also is his second piano trio ( op.5 ), which was praised by his friends Johannes Brahms and Franz Liszt as a masterpiece and classic shape gives up in favor of a cyclic unity, significantly higher than the first ( op.3 ); and similar is the case with the two symphonies, the first of " the most significant between Schumann and Brahms " ( The music in past and present, 1968) is called. Total found in people 's oeuvre Grandiose that does not need to fear the comparison to the "big ones " of his time, alongside little more significant. However, his best works are far above the average of his time and have a very personal signature on.

Works

  • Orchestral works Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op 49 (1862 /63)
  • Symphony No. 2 in B- flat major, Op 53 (1864 /65)
  • Serenade No. 1 in C major, Opus 62 for strings ( 1869)
  • Serenade No. 2 in F major, Op 63 for Strings (1869 )
  • Serenade No. 3 in D minor, Op 69 for cello and strings (1870 )
  • Overture in C major, Op posth (1863 )
  • Overture " Richard III. " op.68 (1870 )
  • Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 33 ( 1853-55 )
  • Concert Piece in C major op 42 for piano and orchestra (1861 )
  • " Christmas carol dating from the 12th century ", motet for soloists and chorus, Op 59 (1867 )
  • Songs
  • Piano Trio No. 1 in F major, Op 3 (1842 /43)
  • Piano Trio No. 2 in B minor, Op 5 ( 1850)
  • String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op 9 (1847 /48)
  • String Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op 14 (1846 )
  • String Quartet No. 3 in G major, Op 34 (1856 /57)
  • String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op 35 ( 1857)
  • String Quartet No. 5 in F minor, Op 37 (1858 )
  • String Quartet No. 6 in E flat major, Op 43 (1861 )
  • Sonata in C minor op 12
  • 6 Fantasy pictures op 1
  • Book of Songs, Op 17
  • German Dance Melodies Op 18
  • Cavatina and Barcarolle, Op 19
  • Hungarian Songs op 20
  • " Visegrád ", 12 tone poems, Op 21
  • Fantasie op 25a
  • Variations on a Theme by Handel, Op 26 ( on the harmonious blacksmith Handel's 5.Klaviersuite )
  • Songs of the grandmother, Op 27
  • Sonatina in G major, Op 57 (1868 )
  • Musical picture book op 11 (1852 /53)
  • 7 Hungarian Sketches, Op 24 (1861 )
  • The times of the day, Op 39 (1859 )
  • 3 Marches, Op 40 (1859 )

Discount

The estate of Robert Volkmann - 180 catalog numbers with music autographs, manuscript copies - is in the music department of the SLUB Dresden kept ( Signature: Mus.5912 ... ).

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