Télémaque Lambrino (27 October 1878 – 25 February 1930) was a German pianist and music educator. The son of Greek parents, he lived and worked mainly in Germany.
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Life edit
Born in Odessa, Lambrino first received his musical training with Dmitri Klimow in his native city. Presumably from the winter semester 1898/1899[1] where he was enrolled for one year at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, among others the Liszt's students Berthold Kellermann as well as Anton Beer-Walbrunn and Josef Gabriel Rheinberger were his teachers. At the end of 1899, Lambrino seems to have moved to Leipzig.[2] From here he regularly went to Berlin to continue his studies with Rubinstein's student Maria Teresa Carreño.
Already early on Lambrino took over the direction of his own master classes, both at the Richard Bruno Heydrich Konservatorium für Musik und Theater in Halle (from February 1905, with interruptions until 1915) [3] and at the Thuringian State Conservatory in Erfurt.[4] After a short period of activity at the Moscow Conservatory, which lasted from 1908 to 1909 and was connected with a professorship, Lambrino settled permanently in Leipzig to create better conditions for a career as a soloist. There he gave private lessons to a large circle of students without ever belonging to the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. From 1918/19 to 1924, Lambrino also taught piano training classes at the Berlin Klindworth-Scharwenka-Konservatorium.
Lambrino developed into one of the most sought-after pianists of his time. Tours have taken the artist all over Europe and to Russia since 1902. Karl Straube characterized Lambrino in an obituary with the words "He can be counted among the most gifted of this century. … Those who come from his school can boast that they have been presented with music that is full of emotion and emotion right down to the last movement".
A Welte-Mignon recording from 1905 of Franz Schubert's Military March in the adaptation by Carl Tausig has been preserved[5] and another one with the Etudes Op. 25 no. 8 and 9 by Frédéric Chopin.[6]
Lambrino died in Leipzig at age 51.
Further reading edit
- Hugo Leichtentritt: Das Konservatorium der Musik Klindworth-Scharwenka Berlin 1881–1931. Festschrift aus Anlass des fünfzigjährigen Bestehens. O.O., o. J. (Berlin, 1931), pp. 33–41
- Erich H. Müller (ed.): Deutsches Musiker-Lexikon. Dresden: Wilhelm Limpert-Verlag, 1929, Spalte 798
- Walter Niemann: Meister des Klaviers. Die Pianisten der Gegenwart und der letzten Vergangenheit. Berlin: Schuster & Loeffler, 14th ed. 1919 and 1921, p. 91 f
References edit
- ^ Alfred Heuss in: Musikalisches Wochenblatt, 40th year 1909, issue 26, p. 352
- ^ see Alfred Heuss, Musikalisches Wochenblatt, In the Leipzig address books Lambrino is surprisingly only listed from 1907 onward.
- ^ Stadtarchiv Halle, Bestand A 2.36 Schulverwaltung, Nr. 118, vol. 1 and 2
- ^ Erich H. Müller, Deutsches Musiker-Lexikon, Dresden 1929, lists the years 1904 to 1908 for Erfurt, but the State Conservatory there was not founded until 1911 by Walter Hansmann. Either Müller is wrong here or there must have been a predecessor institution. The fact that Lambrino was associated with the Erfurt Conservatory until at least 1922 is documented by the program of a public graduation examination on 31 March 1922.
- ^ Roll collection of the Deutsches Museum Munich, inventory numbers 9975, 2006–510 and 2006-511
- ^ ebd, Inventarnummer 2001–17
