Max Rostal

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| name = Max Rostal | image = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = Teschen, Austria-Hungary | death_date = | death_place = Bern, Switzerland | occupation = Classical violinist and violist Max Rostal (7 July 1905 – 6 August 1991) was a violinist and a violist. He was Austrian-born, but later took British citizenship.

Biography

Max Rostal was born in Cieszyn to a Jewish merchant family. As a child prodigy, he started studying the violin at the age of 5, and played in front of Emperor Franz Josef I in 1913.

He studied with Carl Flesch. He also studied theory and composition with Emil Bohnke and Matyás Seiber. He won the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1925.{{cite book |last= Schenk |first= Dietmar |title=Die Hochschule für Musik zu Berlin: Preussens Konservatorium zwischen romantischem Klassizismus und neuer Musik, 1869-1932/33 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=clqVokEKBecC |accessdate= 14 November 2010 |series=Pallas Athene. Beitrage zur Universitats- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte |year= 2004 |publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag |location= |language= German |isbn= 978-3-515-08328-7 |page= 318

In 1945, in honour of Flesch, he co-founded what was later known as the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition with Edric Cundell.

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.{{Cite book|last=Craggs|first=Stuart R|title=Alan Bush: a source book|year=2007|isbn=978-0-7546-0894-3|location=Aldershot, England|publisher=Ashgate|pages=66| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lNHyBiEIbDgC&q=rostal&pg=PA54}} He was the dedicatee of Benjamin Frankel's first solo violin sonata (1942), and he also made the premiere recording. He commissioned the violin concerto by Bernard Stevens in 1943.

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.

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 on 6 August 1991 in Bern, Switzerland.

Discography

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, 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

Compositions

  • Max Rostal: Studie in Quinten, für Violine mit Klavierbegleitung, 1955
  • Max Rostal: Studie in Quarten, für Violine mit Klavierbegleitung, 1957

References

References

  1. "Objekt-Metadaten @ LexM – Universität Hamburg".
  2. Silvela, Zdenko. (2001). "A new history of violin playing : the vibrato and Lambert Massart's revolutionary discovery". Universal Publishers.
  3. "Rostal Max | Virtual Shtetl".
  4. M. Rostal, ''Violin – Schlüssel – Erlebnisse'', pp. 16–39
  5. Noël Goodwin. (2001). "Rostal, Max". [[Oxford University Press]].
  6. "Description Page of Frankel Sonata". Chester Novello.
  7. [http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Apr02/Max_Rostal_In_Memoriam.htm 'Max Rostal - In Memoriam', Symposium CD 1142/43, reviewed at ''MusicWeb International'']
  8. 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.)
  9. "Max Rostal".
  10. "Benjamin Frankel Website Discography".
  11. "Description from Label Site of Testament SBT1319".
  12. "Elgar Foundation Information for the Testament Delius/Walton/Elgar CD".
  13. "MusicWeb Review of Max Rostal in Memoriam CD".

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