Max Rostal
Max Rostal | |
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| Born | 7 July 1905 Teschen, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 6 August 1991 (aged 86) Bern, Switzerland |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Violinist |
| Instrument(s) | Violin, viola |
Max Rostal (7 July 1905 – 6 August 1991) was a violinist and a viola player. He was Austrian-born, but later took British citizenship.[1]
Biography
Max Rostal was born in
Franz Josef I in 1913.[3]
He studied with
Köln (1957–82) and the Conservatory in Bern (1957–85). His pupils included Yfrah Neaman, Igor Ozim, Edith Peinemann, Bryan Fairfax, and members of the Amadeus Quartet.[citation needed
]
In 1945, in honour of Flesch, he co-founded what was later known as the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition with Edric Cundell.[6]
Rostal played a wide variety of music, but was a particular champion of contemporary works such as Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2. He made a number of recordings. Rostal premiered Alan Bush's Violin Concerto of 1946–8 in 1949.[7] He was the dedicatee of Benjamin Frankel's first solo violin sonata (1942),[8] and he also made the premiere recording. He commissioned the violin concerto by Bernard Stevens in 1943.[9]
Rostal played in a piano trio with Heinz Schröter (piano) and Gaspar Cassadó (cello), who was replaced in 1967 by Siegfried Palm. He edited a number of works for Schott Music, and also produced piano reductions.[10]
Rostal's daughter Sybil B. G. Eysenck became a psychologist and is the widow of the personality psychologist Hans Eysenck, with whom she collaborated. Rostal died in Bern.[citation needed]
Discography
- Benjamin Frankel: Sonata No. 1 for solo violin, Op. 13 (1942) on Decca K 1178[11]
- Frederick Delius: Violin Sonata No. 2, Sir Edward Elgar: Violin Sonata, and Sir William Walton: Violin Sonata (1954 recordings, released 1955-7 on LP on Westminster), reissued on the Testament UK label, SBT1319 (2003).[12][13]
- Maurice Ravel: Sonate fur Violine und Klavier, Marcel Mihalovici: 2.Sonate fur Violine und Klavier op.45 Deutsche Grammophon SLPM 138 016, 1959.
- Violin concertos by Béla Bartók (No. 2), Alban Berg, Bernard Stevens, and Dmitri Shostakovich (No. 1) recorded between 1948 and 1962, released on CD on Symposium Records, UK[14]
- Franz Schubert: Fantasie in C major, D.934, Robert Schumann: Sonata A minor, Op. 105, Claude Debussy: Sonata, Igor Stravinsky: Duo Concertant, Symposium Records, UK
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Passacaglia, Giuseppe Tartini: Concerto in G minor, Sonata The Devil's Trill, Ludwig van Beethoven: Romances No. 1 and 2, Symposium Records, UK
- Franz Schubert: 3 Sonatas, Op. 137, No. 1-3, Rondo in B minor, Op. 70, D. 895, Sonata in A major, Op. 162, D. 574, Symposium Records, UK
Media
- European Archive Copyright free LP recording of Beethoven's Kreutzer sonata by Max Rostal (violin) and Franz Osborn (piano) at the European Archive (for non-American viewers only).
Bibliography
Books
- Rostal, Max (1985). Beethoven: The Sonatas for Piano and Violin: thoughts on their interpretation. Horace and Anna Rosenberg, translators, foreword by the Amadeus Quartet. With a Pianist's Postscript by ISBN 0-907689-06-X.
- Rostal, Max, Ludwig van Beethoven: Die Sonaten für Violine und Klavier, Gedanken zu ihrer Interpretation, Mit einem Nachtrag aus pianistischer Sicht von Günter Ludwig, R.Piper & Co. Verlag, Munich, 1981
- Rostal, Max, Handbuch zum Geigenspiel, unter Mitarbeit von Berta Volmer, Müller & Schade publishing house, Bern, 1993
- Rostal, Max, Violin – Schlüssel – Erlebnisse, Erinnerungen, Mit einem autobiografischen Text von Leo Rostal, Ries & Erler, Berlin, 2007
Editions
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Passacaglia für Violine allein, London 1951, Bern 1984
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonaten und Partiten, Leipzig 1982
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violinkonzert KV 218, Mainz 1967
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violinkonzert KV 219, Mainz 1961
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio KV 261, Mainz 1964
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rondo KV 373, Mainz 1975
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonaten, München 1978
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Romanzen Nr. 1 and 2, Mainz
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Violinkonzert, Mainz 1971
- Franz Schubert: Rondo A-dur, Mainz 1964
- Peter Tchaikowsky: Konzert für Violine und Orchester, Mainz 1973
- Carl Maria von Weber: Rondo Brillant op. 62, Berlin 1930/1985
- Carl Flesch: Das Skalensystem, Berlin 1987
- Jacob Dont: Etüden und Capricen op. 35, Mainz 1971
- Pierre Rode: 24 Capricen, Mainz 1974
- Henryk Wieniawski: L'École moderne op. 10, Bern 1991
Compositions
- Max Rostal: Studie in Quinten, für Violine mit Klavierbegleitung, 1955
- Max Rostal: Studie in Quarten, für Violine mit Klavierbegleitung, 1957
References
- ^ "Objekt-Metadaten @ LexM – Universität Hamburg".
- ISBN 1-58112-667-0.
- ^ "Rostal Max | Virtual Shtetl".
- ^ M. Rostal, Violin – Schlüssel – Erlebnisse, pp. 16–39
- ISBN 978-3-515-08328-7. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
- .
- ISBN 978-0-7546-0894-3.
- ^ "Description Page of Frankel Sonata". Chester Novello. Retrieved 7 November 2007.
- ^ 'Max Rostal - In Memoriam', Symposium CD 1142/43, reviewed at MusicWeb International
- ^ A keyword search at http://www.schott-music.com turns up – after disabling fuzzy search – 16 items of sheet music – one, the Studie in Quinten for violin and piano (ISMN M-001-06487-3), of his own composition, but mostly edited by him. (Also two items in periodicals that are about his music-making or influence, but not by him.)
- ^ "Benjamin Frankel Website Discography". Archived from the original on 14 November 2007. Retrieved 18 October 2007.
- ^ "Description from Label Site of Testament SBT1319". Archived from the original on 10 June 2008. Retrieved 18 October 2007.
- ^ "Elgar Foundation Information for the Testament Delius/Walton/Elgar CD". Archived from the original on 11 June 2008. Retrieved 18 October 2007.
- ^ "MusicWeb Review of Max Rostal in Memoriam CD". Retrieved 18 October 2007.
See also
- List of émigré composers in Britain
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