Ewald Straesser
Ewald Straesser (Sträßer) (27 June 1867 – 4 April 1933)[1] was a German composer of classical music.
Straesser was born in Burscheid, near Cologne. He was a student of Franz Wüllner at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and later counted Georg van Albrecht[2] among his own students, also Erwin Schulhoff (teaching him instrumentation/orchestration)[3] At the Hochschule he succeeded Joseph Haas as professor of composition in 1921.[4]
He died in 1933 in Stuttgart. Wilhelm Furtwängler,[5] Hermann Abendroth[6] and other conductors and ensembles featured works by Straesser in their concerts. The conductor Karl Panzner (1866–1923)[7] championed Straesser's symphonies early on[8] (and premiered his 5th symphony.)[9]
Major works by Straesser include:
- 5 string quartets (Nos. 1 and 2, pub. 1901 ; no.3, pub.1913; no.4, published 1920; no.5, pub.1927)
- other chamber works (including a piano sonata (Kleine sonate), violin sonata, piano quintet, clarinet quintet[10] and piano trio)
- 6 symphonies (at least 3 unpublished)
- concertos for piano, violin, and cello (1901, UK premiere 1903)[11](This last possibly lost. The piano concerto has been broadcast.)
There is an Ewald-Sträßer-Weg (Way/Street) in Burscheid.[12]
References
- ↑ "MusicSack". Retrieved July 2, 2011.
- ↑ From musical folklore to twelve-tone technique, memoirs of a musician between East and West at Google Books, pp.68–70 and elsewhere.
- ↑ Warszawski, Jean-Marc (August 2010). "Schulhoff Erwin 1894-1942" (in French). Retrieved October 16, 2011.
- ↑ "Schwäbischer Organ Romantics: Ewald Sträßer" (in German). Retrieved November 26, 2011.
- ↑ e.g. see http://www.furtwangler.net/inmemoriam/data/conce_en.htm#a1923 where a performance of Straesser's 4th symphony opus 46 is mentioned - a PDF on the site refers to it as symphony 4 while the site itself refers to it just as symphony opus 46. Symphony 6 opus 50 was in another Furtwängler concert according to the same site in 1927, October 13.
- ↑ according to e.g. mentions in issues of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik from 1933. Also see Albrecht's book, above
- ↑ see de:Karl Panzner
- ↑ he is mentioned a few times in this connection in 1910s music magazine concert reviews, e.g. in The Musical Times
- ↑ This premiere is noted specifically in Panzner's German Wikipedia article.
- ↑ In G major, Op. 34 - see IMSLP. This work, along with Henri Marteau's clarinet quintet, is announced for release on the Sterling Records CD label in July 2013.
- ↑ "BBC Proms Archive". Retrieved October 16, 2011. Riemann 1922 mentions the violin concerto in its Straesser worklist.
- ↑ "Street Plan of Burscheid" (in German). Retrieved November 26, 2011.
External links
- Free scores by Ewald Straesser at the International Music Score Library Project Includes CC recordings of all five quartets and a more nearly complete list of works
- "Straesser at the Dohr Edition" (in German). Retrieved July 2, 2011.
- RISM has incipits and other information for Straesser's 2nd and 4th symphonies and one choral work (but gives opus 44 for symphony 4 while other sources give opus 46. Clearly the same work, however- symphony in G minor, unpublished)