Victor von Herzfeld

Victor Emmerich Ritter von Herzfeld (October 8, 1856 – February 19, 1919)[lower-alpha 1][1][2] was a Hungarian violinist and composer.[3][4]

The native form of this personal name is Herzfeld Viktor. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Victor von Herzfeld
Born(1856-10-08)October 8, 1856
Pressburg, Austria-Hungary
DiedFebruary 19, 1919(1919-02-19) (aged 62)
Budapest, Hungary
Occupation(s)Violinist, composer

Born in Pressburg (now Bratislava), Herzfeld studied law at the University of Vienna and music at the Music Academy of Vienna where he won first prize for both composition and violin playing.[5] In 1884, he was awarded the Beethoven Prize of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of the Friends of Music).[3] He studied in Berlin with Eduard Grell and in 1886 went to Budapest as professor in the Music Academy. He was second violin in the original Budapest Quartet established by David Popper and Jenő Hubay. Ernst von Dohnányi dedicated his Sonata in C♯ minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 21 (1912) to Herzfeld.[6] While serving as the music critic of the Neue Pester Journal, he wrote a negative review of his friend and colleague Gustav Mahler's First Symphony.[7] He is the author of a 1915 article on Robert Volkmann.[8] He died in Budapest and was buried there at the Kerepesi Cemetery.

Notes and references

Notes

  1. Regarding personal names: Ritter is a title, translated approximately as Sir (denoting a Knight), not a first or middle name. There is no equivalent female form.

References

  1. Music Academy
  2. Geni.com
  3. Donald Mitchell (1980). Gustav Mahler. University of California Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-520-04141-7. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  4. L. Riemann (1959). "Herzfeld, Victor von (1856–1920), Violinist und Komponist". Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon ab 1815 (online) (in German). Vol. 2. Austrian Academy of Sciences.
  5. Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der Straeten (1933). The History of the Violin: Its Ancestors and Collateral Instruments from Earliest Times to the Present Day. Cassell. p. 331. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  6. Ilona von Dohnanyi; James A. Grymes (12 July 2002). Ernst von Dohnányi: A Song of Life. Indiana University Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-253-10928-6. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  7. Peter Franklin (24 April 1997). The Life of Mahler. Cambridge University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-521-46761-2. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  8. Von Herzfeld, V. (1915). "Robert Volkmann (1815–1883)". The Musical Quarterly (3): 336–349. doi:10.1093/mq/I.3.336.
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