Wilfried Hanke (23 September 1901[1] – ?) was a German violinist and music educator.
Life edit
Hanke came from the Bohemian city of Levín in the then Austria-Hungary.
He joined the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra in 1927 under the principal conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler. In 1932/33 he was an active member of the orchestra, finally as second concertmaster. In 1931 he was also a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, which was conducted by Furtwängler at the time.[2] On 1 January 1934, Hanke became first concertmaster at the Hamburg State Theatre.[3] In 1934 the Philharmonic Orchestra and the City Theatre Orchestra merged to form the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, where he was also concertmaster.[4] He played with the conductors Eugen Jochum, Joseph Keilberth and Wolfgang Sawallisch.
From 1938 to 1943 he was primarius of the Hanke Quartet in Hamburg. He played with Rudolf Prick (2nd violin), Fritz Lang (viola) and Rudolf Metzmacher and Bernhard Günther (violoncello).[5] Together with Carl Seemann (piano) and Atis Teichmannis (cello), he performed in the Seemann Trio. He was soloist among others at the premiere of Willy Czernik's Violin Concerto in A minor (with the Staatsorchester Braunschweig)[6] and by Rudolf von Oertzen's Symphonischer Dialog for solo violins and orchestra (conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch). Furthermore, in 1941 he conducted in Hamburg Conventgarten the premiere of Helmut Paulsen's Sonata for violin and piano (with the composer).[7]
From the 1950s he was also professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.[8]
Literature edit
- Gerassimos Avgerinos: Künstler-Biographien: die Mitglieder im Berliner Philharmonischen Orchester von 1882–1972.[9] self edited, Berlin 1972, p. 62.
References edit
- ^ Peter Muck: Einhundert Jahre Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester. Vol. 3: Die Mitglieder des Orchesters, die Programme, die Konzertreisen, Erst- und Uraufführungen. Schneider, Tutzing 1982, ISBN 3-7952-0341-4, p. 17.
- ^ Alfred Sous: Das Bayreuther Festspielorchester. Geschichte, Geschichten und Anekdoten von damals bis heute. Lienau, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87484-125-1, p. 138.
- ^ Personal. In Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 101 (1934) 2, p. 225f.
- ^ Erik Verg: Hamburg philharmonic. A city and its orchestra. Christians, Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-7672-0591-2, p. 111.
- ^ Jürgen Stegmüller: Das Streichquartett. Eine internationale Dokumentation zur Geschichte der Streichquartett-Ensembles und Streichquartett-Kompositionen von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (Quellenkataloge zur Musikgeschichte. vol. 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8, p. 121.
- ^ Kleine Mitteilungen. In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 100 (1933) 4, p. 400.
- ^ Premiere. In the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 108 (1941) 2, p. 73 f.
- ^ Walter Habel (ed.): Wer ist wer? the German Who's Who. 27th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1988, ISBN 3-7950-2008-5, p. 488.
- ^ Künstler-Biographien: die Mitglieder im Berliner Philharmonischen Orchester von 1882–1972 on WorldCat
External links edit
- Literature by and about Wilfried Hanke in the German National Library catalogue
- Wilfried Hanke discography at Discogs
