University of Leeds

CHASE

CHASE

Heinrich Schradieck

b. Hamburg, 29.4.1846 d. Brooklyn, New York, 25.3.1918

Teachers: for violin; father; Hubert Léonard (Brussels Conservatoire, 1854-8); Ferdinand David (Leipzig, 1859-61). For composition: Grädner, Marxsen (in Hamburg); E. F. Richter (Leipzig).

Mentor: Teresa Milanollo (heard him play as a boy, financed his lessons in Brussels).

Associates: Ferdinand Laub, Engelbert Röntgen, Anton Rubinstein, Carl Reinecke, Edvard Grieg, Amalie Joachim, Anton Door.

Professional Appointments: concertmaster, Reinthaler Concerts, Bremen (1863); teacher at Moscow Conservatoire (1864-8); concertmaster, Hamburg Philharmonic Society(1869-74); professor at Leipzig Conservatoire, and concertmaster of Leipzig Gewandhaus and Theatre orchestras (1874-82); professor at Cincinnati Cellege of Music (1883-9); concertmaster, Hamburg Philharmonic Society, and teacher at Conservatory (1889-98); professor at National Conservatoire, New York (from 1898); professor at Broad Street Conservatyoire, Philadelphia (from 1899); teacher at American Institute of Applied Music, New York (1912).

Chamber ensembles: Quartet at Leipzig Gewandhaus - violin 2, Friedrich Georg Haubold; from c. 1878 Robert Bolland; viola, Julius Thümer; cello, Carl Schröder; from 1880, Alwin Schröder. Schradieck alternated as leader at the Gewandhaus chamber concerts with Engelbert Röntgen.

Pupils: Maud Powell, Ottokar Nováček, Theodore Spiering, John Dunn.

Editions

  • Beethoven: Romances, Op 40 and 50 (Schirmer, 1895).
  • Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Op 61 (Schirmer, 1895).
  • Bériot: Violin Concertos, Op 32, 70, and 104 (Schirmer, dates unknown, except for Op 104 - 1903).
  • Bériot: Duo for violin and piano, Op 15 (Schirmer, date unknown).
  • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Op 64 (two editions; Schuberth, 1878, and Schirmer, date unknown).
  • Nardini: Sonata in B flat (revision of F. David edition) (Schirmer, 1898).
  • Spohr: Violin Concerto No 9, Op 55 (André, 1879).
  • Tchaikovsky: Souvenir d'un lieu cher op. 42
  • Viotti: Violin Concerto No 22 (revision of F. David edition) (Schirmer, 1901).
  • Vitali: Chaconne (Schirmer, 1897, and Chappell, 1925).

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