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Price: $85.00 |
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MINT CONDITION |
EDMUND SINGER - VIOLINIST |
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The Hungarian violinist, (1831-1912) writes a one page letter to a publisher of a journal to change his address, 18 November, 1854 Most revered Sir, Please allow me first and foremost to greet you cordially. Please accept the assurance of my highest respect. Since I have recently been employed at Weimar and have a new home. I would like to ask you if you could be so kind as to send your precious newspaper from now on to the address of Kammervirtuoso Singer here, instead of to Pest. I hope to soon find further opportunities to thank you for your favor. Until then I remain. Yours sincerely, Edmund Sinder Weimar, 18/11/1854
Singer studied with Ellinger, Köhne and Böhm in his native Hungary, Germany and later at the Paris Conservatoire. He initially started a solo career, but as many violinists found, they made a much more steady income with an orchestra and he was hired as soloist of the Hoftheater in Pest. Liszt was impressed with his virtuosity and in 1854 hired him as his concertmaster at Weimar, which came with the title of Court Virtuoso. He could now claim both Singer and Joachim as members of his orchestra. With the improvement to the string section, he wrote more difficult passages in his “Dante Symphony,” “Grand Messe” and “St. Elisabeth’s Mass.” On the occasion of the two Masses, Liszt took Singer with him for the premier of both, the St. Elisabeth, hiring him from his teaching position in Stuttgart so that he would have a quality string section. Liszt’s friend and major-domo, the composer Joachim Raff wrote and dedicated his Konzertstücke for violin and orchestra and his La Fée for violin and piano to Singer. He played both premiers, the second with Liszt at the piano. Singer wound up his career at the Conservatory at Stuttgardt as violin pedagogue and leader of his own string quartet. |
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