Max Rostal
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Max Rostal (August 7, 1905 – August 6, 1991) was a violinist. He was Austrian-born, but later took British citizenship.
He was born in Cieszyn[1] and studied with Carl Flesch. From 1930-33 he taught at the Berlin Hochschule, from 1944 to 1958 at the Guildhall School of Music, and then at the conservatory in Bern. His pupils included Yfrah Neaman, Igor Ozim, Edith Peinemann, and members of the Amadeus Quartet. He died in Bern.
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.
His list of works premiered, and dedicated to him included Alan Bush's violin concerto of 1946-8 (premiered in 1949) [2]. He also was the dedicatee of Benjamin Frankel's 1942 first solo violin sonata [3], whose premiere recording he made.
He edited a number of works for Schott Music, and produced piano reductions as well. [4]
[edit] Partial Discography
- Benjamin Frankel sonata no. 1 for solo violin op. 13 (1942) on Decca K 1178 [5]
- Frederick Delius violin sonata no. 2, Sir Edward Elgar's violin sonata, and Sir William Walton's violin sonata (1954 recordings, released 1955-7 on LP on Westminster), reissued on the Testament UK label, SBT1319 (2003). [6] [7]
- Violin concertos by Béla Bartók (no. 2), Alban Berg, Bernard Stevens, and Dmitri Shostakovich (no. 1) recorded between 1948 and 1962, released on CD on the Symposium label [8]
[edit] Bibliography
- Rostal, Max; Horace and Anna Rosenberg, translators, Foreword by the Amadeus Quartet. With a Pianist's Postscript by Günter Ludwig and a History of Performance Practice by Paul Rolland (1985). Beethoven: The Sonatas for Piano and Violin: thoughts on their interpretation. London: Toccata Press. ISBN 0-907689-06-X.
[edit] References
- ^ Silvela, Zdenko (2001). A new history of violin playing : the vibrato and Lambert Massart's revolutionary discovery. New York: Universal Publishers, 378. ISBN 1-58112-667-0.
- ^ Craggs, Stuart R. Alan Bush: a source book. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 66. ISBN 0-7546-0894-8.
- ^ Description Page of Frankel Sonata. Chester Novello. Retrieved on 2007-11-07.
- ^ 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.)
- ^ Benjamin Frankel Website Discography. Retrieved on 2007-10-18.
- ^ Description from Label Site of Testament SBT1319. Retrieved on 2007-10-18.
- ^ Elgar Foundation Information for the Testament Delius/Walton/Elgar CD. Retrieved on 2007-10-18.
- ^ MusicWeb Review of Max Rostal in Memoriam CD. Retrieved on 2007-10-18.
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