Mischa Elman

Mikhail Saulovitch “Misha” Elman is a Violon ist of Ukrainian origin naturalized American in 1923. It was born in 1891 and is deceased in 1967.

Biography

January 20th, 1891, it is born in the small village from Talnoi in the province from Kiev. His/her large Josef father was a kezmer, a violonist of Folk music Jewish. He was known for the beauty of his sound to the violin, and people who heard and the grandfather and the grandson granted to say that Misha had inherited its Josef. The father of Elman was professor of Hebrew and trading.

Very young Mischa has an absolute pitch, but his/her father hesitates to direct it towards a career of musician, the social status of the musician in the Jewish community not being advantageous. Finally, it introduced it there, and offers a small violin to him, on which very quickly it will learn from itself several airs.

A few times after, the town of Talnoi sufficient step with the musical development of Elman, it begins its studies of violin with Odessa, with local professor Alexander Fiedelmann (1897 - 1902) and gives soon its first concert in 1899, by playing the Concerto of Bériot.

The child progresses quickly and is frequently invited to play for stars of passage like Adolph Brodsky, Pablo de Sarasate and Leopold Auer. Pablo de Sarasate writes a letter of introduction to him in which it reveals that Mischa has an unquestionable talent and that it can become if he studies a few years with Paris, Berlin, or Saint-Pétersbourg one of the greatest pride of Europe.

Finally, in 1901, it is auditioned at 11 years by Léopold Auer and plays the Concerto n°2 of 24 Whims]] of [[Niccolò Paganini|Paganini]]. Auer is impressed and admits it at once in [[Conservatory Rimski-Korsakov de Saint-Pétersbourg|imperial academy of Saint-Pétersbourg]]. Dice the first Auer-Elman meeting, the tone and the single style of Elman knew to develop and the clean perception of Auer of the play of violin was unquestionably favorable to him. Already in [[1903 in music|1903]], Elman carried out several concerts deprived for rich person art lovers. Among them [[the Frederic-Guillaume de Mecklembourg-Strelitz|large-duke of Mecklembourg-Strelitz]] which will present to Mischa its first violin [[Italy]] N - one [[Matted]]. Its beginnings, out the borders [[Russia|Russian]], takes place in Berlin in [[1904 in music|1904]] where it creates a strong impression, followed by an important round in all it [[Germany]], then it [[England]] in [[1905 in music|1905]] with [[London]] with first English of the Concerto of [[Alexandre Glazounov]], it [[France]] and them [[the United States]], where it appears in [[1908 in music|1908]] with [[Carnegie Hall]] playing the Concerto [[Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski|Tchaïkovsky]] with the Russian Company of symphony of [[New York]], led by Altschuler Modeste. [[Joseph Joachim]], for which it played on a purely basis deprived at its beginnings, will say by noting the Elman phenomenon: “I am dumb”. In a few months, Europe is overcome. The British press affuble with Elman the title of “the largest violonist in the world”. In 1905, Mischa Elman will play [[Buckingham Palace|Palate of Buckingham]] for the king [[Edouard VII of the United Kingdom|Edouard VII]] and the king [[Alphonse XIII of Spain]], sharing the program with [[Nellie Melba]] and [[Enrico Caruso]]. The appearance of [[Jascha Heifetz]] on the scene will have an impact devastator on the career of much of violonists of this time. But Elman will remain a strongly popular artist of concert, exploiting sometimes up to 107 concerts 29 weeks, and appearing in recitals, for orchestra and with the concerts in duet with [[Eugene Ysaÿe]]. The Elman family emigrates in the United States and Mischa becomes American citizen in [[1923]]. Its career develops quickly in the whole world. In [[1917 in music|1917]] he is elected like honourable member of the '' Phi Driven Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity ''. In [[1943 in music|1943]], it gives the first of the Second Concerto of [[Bohuslav Martinů]], written for him. The sale of its discs exceeds the 2 million specimens, and are even republished on [[Compact disc|CD]]. Misha Elman can be regarded as one of largest of the Russian violoniostic School of Saint-Pétersbourg: extraordinary virtuoso, equipped with a full sonority, his repertory went from the old music, with most modern, with perhaps a predilection for the romantic ones (of which [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]]) and for the Slavic type-setters ([[Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski|Tchaïkovski]], [[Antonín Dvořák|Dvorak]]). Ysaÿe dedicated its poem '' Extase '' to him, Martinů its '' 2 {{E}} Concerto for violin '' ([[1943 in music|1943]]). It had since 1907 the Stradivarius of Joachim on which it played all its life, alternating sometimes with two other Stradivarius, the Mrs Récamier (1717), wedding gift of his own wife (1925), and Samazeuilh (1735) which it had acquired in 1923.

Between 1924 and the end of the last war, it took an active part in a string quartet which it itself had founded.

Its most frequent guide for the chamber music was in particular Emmanuel Bay, which was born the same day as Mischa, on January 20th, 1891.

Mischa Elman died on April 5th, 1967 with New York. It is buried with the cemetery of Westchester Hills with Hastings-one-Hudson, New York.

Discography

The recordings of Elman covered more than 50 years. With recordings carried out during the era of the 78trs under the label HMV and Victor (later RCA Victor).

During the era LP, Elman signed with Decca/London and later with the group of recording of Avant-garde. With the difference in Jascha Heifetz, its contemporary, the work of Elman forever systematically republished summer. Ci below the list of its most popular recordings:

78 turns/Mono

Bach - Violin Concerto in E Major , BWV 1042 - with John Barbirolli
Bach - Prelude from the Partita for Solo Violin , BWV 1006
Beethoven - Violin Concerto in D Major , COp 61 - with Georg Solti and the Philharmonic orchestra of London
Beethoven - Romance in F major for Violin and Orchestrated (HMV dB 1847)
Massenet - Elegie Melody , with Enrico Caruso (HMV DK 103)
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor , COp 64 - with Desired Defauw and the Symphony orchestra of Chicago
Raff - Cavatina with Josef Bonime (HMV dB 1354)
Sarasate - Zigeunerweisen , COp 20, No 1.
Schubert - sentimental Waltz , with Carroll Hollister (HMV DA 1144)
Schumann - Traumerei , with Marcel Van Gool (HMV DA 1144)
Tchaïkovsky - Violin Concerto in D Major , COp 35 - with John Barbirolli and the Symphony orchestra of London
Tchaïkovsky - Violin Concerto in D Major , COp 35 - with Sir Adrian Boult and the Philharmonic orchestra of London
Vivaldi - Concerto in G Minor , RV 317 - with Lawrence Collingwood and the Orchestra Philharmonia
Wieniawski - Violin Concerto in D minor , COp 22 - with the " Robin Hood Dell" (aka Philadelphia) Orchestrated
Wieniawski - Legend , COp 17

Stereo

Bach - Violin Concerto in E Major , BWV 1042 - with Vladimir Golschmann and the Opera of State of Vienna
Dvorak - Slavonic Fantasy in B Minor
Kreisler - Invaluable the
Nardini - Violin Concerto in E Minor - with Vladimir Golschmann and the Opera of State of Vienna
Smetana - My Vlast, No 2.
Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in G Minor , RV 317 - with Vladimir Golschmann, and the Opera of State of Vienna

Source

http://www.geocities.com/golden_key_2000/
Dictionary of the interpreters and musical interpretation, Alain Pâris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischa_Elman

Zh-min-nan: Mischa Elman

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