Jan Hřímalý, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jan Hřímalý

Czech musician

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1844

Place of Birth: Plzeň, Plzeň Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 24-Nov-1915

Profession: composer, concertmaster, violinist, university teacher, music pedagogue

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Jan Hřímalý

  • Jan Hrímalý (Russian: ???? ?????????? ????????, also Ivan Voitsekhovich Grzhimali; 13 April 1844 – 24 January [O.S.
  • 11 January] 1915) was an influential Czech violinist and teacher, who was associated with the Moscow Conservatory for 46 years 1869–1915. He was born in Pilsen, Austro-Hungary, the second son of the organist and composer Vojtech Hrímalý (1809–1880), and a member of a notable Czech musical family.
  • He was taught by his older brother Vojtech Hrímalý jr., and by Moritz Mildner.
  • Hrímalý studied violin at the Prague Conservatory (1855–1861), and went on to become leader of the Amsterdam Orchestra (1862–1868).
  • In 1869 he was appointed violin teacher at the Moscow Conservatory.
  • He succeeded Ferdinand Laub as professor of violin studies 1874–1915.
  • He was leader of the Russian Musical Society Orchestra in Moscow from 1874 until 1906.He was acquainted with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who held him in high regard.
  • He co-premiered Tchaikovsky's String Quartets Nos.
  • 2 (1874) and 3 (1876).
  • In March 1882, he appeared in the first performance (private) of Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A minor and may have also appeared in the public premiere in October, although this is not certain. He made a very early recording on wax cylinders of the Piano Trio No.
  • 1 in D minor by Anton Arensky, with the composer at the piano and the cellist Anatoliy Brandukov.
  • This recording was made shortly after its composition and is almost certainly its first recording, although it is not complete.He was considered an outstanding teacher.
  • His students included Iosif Kotek, Reinhold Glière, who dedicated his Octet for Strings, Op.
  • 5, to his teacher; Paul Juon; Vladimir Bakaleinikov; Arcady Dubensky; Stanislaw Barcewicz, Pyotr Stolyarsky (the teacher of David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein, and many others); Nikolai Roslavets; Konstantin Saradzhev; Alexander Petschnikoff, Mikhail Press, Alexander Schmuller; and possibly Mitrofan Vasiliev, the first violin teacher of Jean Sibelius.
  • See: List of music students by teacher: G to J#Jan Hrímalý. He published a number of technical exercises and studies, some of which were valued by Jascha Heifetz, and he died in Moscow in 1915. All his siblings were musically talented.
  • Together with his brothers, Vojtech (1842–1908), Jan Bartulomeus Cestmir (1844–1915), and Bohuslav Ferdinand Wenzl (1848–1894), they started the first string quartet in Bohemia.
  • His sisters, Maria Regina (1839–1924) and Anna Jana (1840–1897) were renowned singers in Salzburg, Austria.

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