Victor Ewald

Viktor Vladimirovich Ewald (Russian Виктор Владимирович Эвальд, Viktor Ewald, born November 27, 1860 in Saint Petersburg, † April 16, 1935 in Leningrad) was a Russian composer, cellist, engineer and university teacher.

Ewald was a professional engineer, was from 1895 to 1915 at the St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineering and a professor worked even after the 1917 revolution continue in this profession. He pursued music as a hobby, but had in St. Petersburg at the Conservatory, among others studied composition with Nikolai Sokolov. 1893 won his String Quartet Opus 1 a 3rd prize of the St. Petersburg Quartet Society ( jurors were, inter alia, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky -Korsakov ). As a cellist Ewald worked regularly in the meetings organized by the patron Belyayev quartet evenings Les Vendredis. He also took part in expeditions to northern Russia to collect folk songs there.

From Ewald's narrow compositional oeuvre (who also played tuba ) are today particularly its brass quintets known (of which only the first Quintet, Op 5 was printed during his lifetime, the No. 2 and No. 3, Op op 6 7 remained until the 1970s manuscript, a later as Opus 8, published No. 4 is a transcription of the string quartet op 1).