Joseph Joachim

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Joseph Joachim

Joseph Joachim (June 28, 1831 – August 15, 1907) was a Hungarian

Hungarian people

Hungarians are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. There are around 10 million Magyars in Hungary . Hungarians were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed through most of the second millennium....
violin

Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
ist, conductor

Conducting

Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
, composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
and teacher. He is regarded as one of the most influential violinists of all time.

ph Joachim was born in Kittsee

Kittsee

Kittsee is an Austrian municipality in the District of Neusiedl am See , Burgenland. It is called K?pcs?ny in Hungarian language, Kopcany in Slovak language and Gijeca in Croatian language....
(Kopcany / Köpcsény), near Bratislava

Bratislava

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 427,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River....
and Eisenstadt

Eisenstadt

Eisenstadt is a city in Austria, the state capital of Burgenland. It has a population of about 12,000 .In the Habsburg monarchy, Eisenstadt/Kismarton was the seat of the House of Esterh?zy Hungarian nobility....
, in today's Burgenland

Burgenland

Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous Bundesland or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstadt and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities....
area of Austria. He was the seventh of eight children born to Julius and Fanny Joachim. His father was a wool merchant.

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Joseph Joachim (June 28, 1831 – August 15, 1907) was a Hungarian

Hungarian people

Violin

Conducting

Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
, composer

Composer

Life

Origins

Joseph Joachim was born in Kittsee

Kittsee

Bratislava

Eisenstadt

Burgenland

Kehilla

A kehilla or kehillah is a Jewish community. In pre-World War II Europe, all towns or cities with a Jewish population had one communal organisation, or occasionally more....
(Jewish community), one of Hungary's prominent Siebengemeinden

Siebengemeinden

The Siebengemeinden were seven Jewish communities located in Eisenstadt and its surrounding area. The groups are known as Sheva Kehilot in Hebrew language....
('Seven Communities') under the protectorate of the Esterházy family.

Early career

In 1833 his family moved to Pest, where he studied violin with Stanislaus Serwaczynski, the concertmaster of the opera in Pest. (Serwaczynski later moved to Lublin, Poland, where he taught Wieniawski

Henryk Wieniawski

Henryk Wieniawski was a Poland violinist and composer....
). In 1839, Joachim continued his studies at the Vienna Conservatory (briefly with Miska Hauser and Georg Hellmesberger, Sr.

Georg Hellmesberger, Sr.

Georg Hellmesberger, Sr. was an Austrian violinist, conducting, and composer.He was born in Vienna. His first music lesson was by his father....
; finally —and most significantly — with Joseph Böhm

Joseph Böhm

Joseph B?hm was a violinist and teacher.He was born in Pest,_Hungary. He was taught by his father and by Pierre Rode.He made his Vienna debut in 1816 playing works by Rodolphe Kreutzer and Franz Weiss....
). He was taken by his cousin, Fanny Wittgenstein (grandmother of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-United Kingdom philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language....
) to live and study in Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
, where he became a protégé of Felix Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
. In his début performance in the Leipzig Gewandhaus he played the Otello Fantasy by Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst was a Moravian-Jewish violinist, viola and composer. Ernst was widely seen as the outstanding violinist of his time and Niccol? Paganini's greatest successor....
. The twelve-year-old Joachim's 1844 performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto

Violin Concerto (Beethoven)

Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, was written in 1806.The work was premiered on December 23, 1806 in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna....
in London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
(under Mendelssohn's baton) was a triumph, and helped to establish that work in the repertory. Joachim remained a favorite with the English public for the rest of his career.

Maturity

Following Mendelssohn's death, Joachim stayed briefly in Leipzig, teaching at the Conservatorium and playing on the first desk of the Gewandhaus Orchestra with Ferdinand David

Ferdinand David (musician)

Ferdinand David was a Germany virtuoso violinist and composer.David was a pupil of Louis Spohr and Moritz Hauptmann from 1823 to 1824 and in 1826 became a violinist at K?nigst?dtischen Theater in Berlin....
. In 1848, Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt was a Kingdom of Hungary composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century....
took up residence in Weimar

Weimar

Weimar is a city in Germany. It is located in the States of Germany of Thuringia , north of the Th?ringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt and Leipzig....
, determined to re-establish the town's reputation as the Athens

Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
of Germany. There, he gathered a circle of young avante-garde disciples, vocally opposed to the conservatism of the Leipzig circle. Joachim was amongst the first of these. He served Liszt as concertmaster, and for several years enthusiastically embraced the new "psychological music", as he called it. In 1852 he moved to Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover#Definitions , on the river Leine, is the capital city of the Federal states of Germany of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the House of Hanover, in their dignities as the dukes of Brunswick-L?neburg ....
, at the same time dissociating himself from the musical ideals of the 'New German School' (Liszt, Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
, Hector Berlioz

Hector Berlioz

Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
, and their followers, as defined by journalist Franz Brendel) and instead making common cause with Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
, Clara Schumann

Clara Schumann

Clara Josephine Wieck was a German musician, one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic music, as well as a composer. Her prestige — she became known as "the high priestess of music" — exerted over a 61-year concert career, changed the format and repertoire of the piano concert and the tastes of the listening publi...
and Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
. His break with Liszt became final in August of 1857, when Joachim wrote to his former mentor: "I am completely out of sympathy with your music; it contradicts everything which from early youth I have taken as mental nourishment from the spirit of our great masters."

Joachim's time in Hanover was his most prolific period of composition. During this time, he frequently performed with Clara Schumann and with Brahms, both in private and in public. In 1860 Brahms and Joachim jointly wrote a manifesto against the "progressive" music of the 'New German' School, in reaction to the polemics of Brendel's Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik

Die Neue Zeitschrift f?r Musik was a music magazine published in Leipzig, founded by Robert Schumann. Its first issue appeared on 3 April 1834....
. This manifesto met with a mixed reception, being heavily derided by followers of Wagner.

On May 10, 1863 Joachim married the contralto Amalie Schneeweiss (stage name: Amalie Weiss) (1839-99). Amalie gave up her own promising career as an opera singer and gave birth to six children. She did continue to perform in oratorio

Oratorio

An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and solo ists. The oratorio was somewhat modeled after the opera. Their similarities include the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable Fictional character, and arias....
s and to give lied

Lied

, is a German language word, meaning literally "song"; among English speakers, however, the word is used primarily as a term for European European classical music songs, also known as art songs....
er recital

Recital

A recital is a musical performance. It can highlight a single performer, sometimes accompanied by piano, or a performance of the works of a single composer....
s. In 1865 Joachim quit the service of the King of Hanover in protest, when the Intendant of the Opera refused to advance one of the orchestral players (Jakob Grün) because of the latter's Jewish birth. In 1866, Joachim moved to Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
, where he became founding director of the Royal Academy of Music. There, he founded an orchestra, and, in 1869, the Joachim String Quartet

String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments — usually two violins, a viola and cello — or a piece written to be performed by such a group....
, which quickly gained a reputation as Europe's finest.

In 1884, Joachim and his wife separated after he became convinced that she was having an affair with the publisher Fritz Simrock

Fritz Simrock

Friedrich August Simrock, better known as Fritz Simrock was a German music publisher who inherited the publishing firm from his grandfather Nicolaus Simrock....
. Brahms, certain that Joachim's suspicions were groundless, wrote a sympathetic letter to Amalie, which she later produced as evidence in Joachim's divorce proceeding against her. This led to a cooling of Brahms and Joachim's friendship, which was not restored until some years later, when Brahms composed the Double concerto in A minor for violin and cello, Op. 102, as a peace offering to his old friend.

In Berlin on August 17, 1903, Joachim recorded five sides for The Gramophone & Typewriter Ltd (G&T), which remain a fascinating and valuable source of information about 19th-century styles of violin playing. He is the earliest violinist of distinction known to have recorded.

Joachim's portrait was twice painted by Philip de Laszlo. A portrait of Joachim was painted by John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent was the most successful portrait painter of his era. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings....
and presented to him at the Jubilee celebration of his English debut in London in 1904.

Joachim remained in Berlin until his death from actinomycosis

Actinomycosis

Actinomycosis , is a rare infectious disease bacterial disease of humans generally caused by Actinomyces israelii, Actinomyces gerencseriae and Propionibacterium propionicus, though the condition is likely to be polymicrobial....
in 1907.

Discography

Joachim: Romance in C Major Op. 20 (played by composer). Ref 047906. Matrix 218y.
Bach: 1st Sonata for Violin in G Minor BWV 1001: Prelude. Ref 047903. Matrix 204y.
Bach: 1st Partita for Violin B Minor BWV 1022: Bourree. Ref 047904. Matrix 205y.
Brahms: Hungarian Dance WoO 1: No 1. Ref 037904, Matrix 219i (French pressing).
Brahms: Hungarian Dance WoO 1: No 2. Ref 037905, Matrix 217i (French pressing).
Brahms: Hungarian Dance WoO 1: No 1. Ref 047904, Matrix 219y (German pressing).
Brahms: Hungarian Dance WoO 1: No 2. Ref 047905, Matrix 217y (German pressing).

Original pressings are single-sided and have a flat red G&T label. Later reeditions have a black G&T label (or, from 1909, a label showing the 'His Master's Voice' trade-mark), and those made for the German market are double-sided. They are better in quality.

Legacy

Among the most notable of Joachim's achievements were the revivals of Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
's Sonatas and partitas for solo violin, BWV 1001-1006, and particularly of Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
's Violin concerto in D major, Op. 61. Joachim was among the first to play Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn

Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)

Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 is his last large orchestral work. It forms an important part of the violin repertoire and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos of all time....
, which he studied with the composer. Joachim played a pivotal role in the career of Brahms

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
, and remained a tireless advocate of Brahms's compositions through all the vicissitudes of their friendship. He conducted the English premiere of Brahms's Symphony No. 1 in C minor

Symphony No. 1 (Brahms)

The Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, is a symphony written by Johannes Brahms. Brahms spent at least fourteen years completing this work, whose sketches date from 1854....
.

A number of Joachim's composer colleagues, including Schumann

Robert Schumann

Max Bruch

Max Christian Friedrich Bruch also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic music composer and Conducting who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, one of which is a staple of the violin repertoire....
, and Dvorák

Antonín Dvorák

Anton?n Leopold Dvor?k was a Czechs composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia....
composed concerti with Joachim in mind, many of which entered the standard repertory. Nevertheless, Joachim's solo repertoire remained relatively restricted. Despite his close friendship with Brahms, Joachim performed the Brahms Concerto

Violin Concerto (Brahms)

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 is a violin concerto in three movements composed by Johannes Brahms in 1878 for and dedicated to his friend, violinist Joseph Joachim....
(D major, Op. 77) only six times in his career. He never performed Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor

Violin Concerto (Schumann)

Robert Schumann?s Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23 was his only violin concerto and one of his last significant compositions, and one that remained unknown to all but a very small circle for more than 80 years after it was written....
, which Schumann wrote especially for him, or Dvorák's Violin Concerto in A minor

Violin Concerto (Dvorák)

Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 is a concerto for violin and orchestra composed by Anton?n Dvor?k in 1879. The concerto was premiered in 1883 by Franti?ek Ondr?cek in Prague....
. The most unusual work written for Joachim was the F-A-E Sonata, a collaboration between Schumann, Brahms, and Albert Dietrich

Albert Dietrich

Albert Hermann Dietrich , was a Germany composer and Conducting, remembered less for his own achievements than for his friendship with Johannes Brahms....
, based upon the initials of Joachim's motto, Frei aber Einsam (free but lonely). Although the sonata is rarely performed in its entirety, the third movement, the Scherzo in C minor, composed by Brahms, is still frequently played today.

Joachim's own compositions are less well known. He has a reputation as a composer of a short but distinguished catalogue of works. Among his compositions are various works for the violin (including three concerti) and overture

Overture

Overture in music is the instrumental introduction to a dramatic, choir or, occasionally, Musical composition. During the early Romantic era, composers such as Ludwig van Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn began to use the term to refer to instrumental, programmatic works that presaged genres such as the symphonic poem....
s to Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
's Hamlet
Hamlet

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
and Henry IV
Henry IV, Part 1

Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second of Shakespeare's tetralogy that deals with the successive reigns of Richard II of England, Henry IV of England , and Henry V of England....
. He also wrote cadenza

Cadenza

In music, a cadenza is, generically, an improvised or written-out ornamental passage played or sung by a solo or soloists, usually in a "free" rhythmic style, and often allowing for virtuosic display....
s for a number of other composers' concerti (including the Beethoven and Brahms concerti). His most highly regarded composition is his Hungarian concerto

Violin Concerto No. 2 (Joachim)

Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor "in the Hungarian Manner" is a Romantic music violin concerto written by violinist Joseph Joachim . The critic has called it "the Holy Grail of Romantic violin concertos."...
(Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor, Op. 11.

The English poet Robert Bridges

Robert Bridges

Robert Seymour Bridges, Order of Merit , was an English poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930....
wrote a sonnet

Sonnet

The sonnet is one of the Poetry that can be found in lyric poetry from Europe.The term "sonnet" derives from the Occitan word sonet and the Italian language word sonetto, both meaning "little song"....
about Joachim in his first major work of poetry The Growth of Love.

Joachim's instruments

As a child, Joachim played a Guarneri del Gesù
Giuseppe Guarneri

Bartolomeo Giuseppe Antonio Guarnieri, del Ges? was an Italian luthier from the Guarneri house of Cremona. He is the only luthier to rival Antonio Stradivari with regard to the respect and reverence accorded his instruments, and has been called the finest violin maker of the Amati line....
, which he gave to Felix Schumann after he acquired his first Stradivarius
Stradivarius

A Stradivarius is a stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or reproduce, though this belief is controversial....
.
In his Hanover years, Joachim played on a Guadagnini made in 1767.
He later bought a 1714 Stradivarius
Stradivarius

A Stradivarius is a stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or reproduce, though this belief is controversial....
, which he played until 1885.
He exchanged this instrument for a 1713 Stradivarius
Stradivarius

A Stradivarius is a stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or reproduce, though this belief is controversial....
, which was later acquired by Robert von Mendelssohn and lent for life to Joachim's student Karl Klingler.
A 1714 Stradivarius "de Barreau/Joachim" which he bought in 1881 and sold in 1897, later owned by Richard von Mendelssohn, Baron Knoop
Baron Johann Knoop

Baron Johann Knoop , was a collector of musical instruments who possessed a total of 29 great violins, violas, and cellos at one time or another including some four Stradivari violas....
, and Karl Klingler..
A 1698 Joachim Stradivarius is held by the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a college or university school of music, Britian's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999....
A violin, the ex-Joachim Stradivarius of 1715 is currently held by the Collezione Civica del Comune di Cremona
Cremona

Cremona is a city in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left shore of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments....
. It was presented to Joachim on the occasion of his Jubilee celebration in 1889.
Another 1715 Stradivarius, the Joachim-Aranyi.
Another 1715 Stradivarius, later owned by George Eastman
George Eastman

George Eastman founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of the film stock in 1888 by world's first filmmaker, Louis Le Prince, and a decade later by his followers L?on Bouly, Thomas Edison, the Lumi?re Brothers and Georges M?li?s....
A 1722 Stradivarius, later owned by Burmester, Mischa Elman
Mischa Elman

Mikhail Saulovich 'Mischa' Elman was a Ukraine-born violinist, famed for his passionate style and beautiful tone....
and Josef Suk
Josef Suk (composer)

Josef Suk was a Czech composer and violinist....
.
Another 1722 Stradivarius, also owned by the Mendelssohn family.
A 1723 Stradivarius
A 1725 Stradivarius, later owned by Norbert Brainin Currently played by Rainer Küchl.
A 1727 Stradivarius, currently owned by Suntory, Ltd.
The Ex Joachim, Joseph Vieland Viola by Gasparo da Salo
Gasparo da Salò

Gasparo da Sal? is the name given to Gasparo di Bertolotti, one of the earliest luthier of which many and very detailed historical records exist....
, Brescia, before 1609 is held by the Shrine to Music No. 3368,
According to the Henley Atlas of Violin Makers, during the time he spent in France, Joachim performed on a violin made by French luthier
Luthier

A luthier is someone who makes or repairs stringed instruments. The word luthier comes from the French language word wikt:en:luth#French which is French for "lute"....
Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin
Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin

Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin was a distinguished France maker of violins, violas, cellos, Double bass and bows. He was an Officier de l'Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts and won gold and silver medals at the Paris Exhibitions in 1878, 1889, and 1900....
.
A violin by Francesco Ruggeri bearing the label Nicolaus Amati
Amati

Amati is the name of a family of Italy violin makers, who flourished at Cremona from about 1549 to 1740.Family membersAndrea Amati...
Joachim also played a Guarneri del Gesu
Giuseppe Guarneri

Bartolomeo Giuseppe Antonio Guarnieri, del Ges? was an Italian luthier from the Guarneri house of Cremona. He is the only luthier to rival Antonio Stradivari with regard to the respect and reverence accorded his instruments, and has been called the finest violin maker of the Amati line....
, loaned by the Wittgenstein family, perhaps a 1737 Guarneri del Gesu
Giuseppe Guarneri

Bartolomeo Giuseppe Antonio Guarnieri, del Ges? was an Italian luthier from the Guarneri house of Cremona. He is the only luthier to rival Antonio Stradivari with regard to the respect and reverence accorded his instruments, and has been called the finest violin maker of the Amati line....
?
A Johannes Theodorus Cuypers anno 1807 was bought by Joachim in the mid 19th century and taken on tour throughout Europe. There is also evidence that the instrument was played by Joachim in a recital in Paris a half century later, in 1895. The same instrument was also played by Fritz Kreisler in a 1955 Carnegie Hall concert.
A 1747 Pietro Guarneri
A 1767 Guadagnini
A 1775 Guadagnini
A Carlo Testore violin
Among Joachim's bows was a Tourte
François Tourte

Fran?ois Xavier Tourte was a France who, though trained as a watchmaker, soon changed to making bow s for playing european classical music string instruments such as the violin....
, previously owned by Ernst
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst was a Moravian-Jewish violinist, viola and composer. Ernst was widely seen as the outstanding violinist of his time and Niccol? Paganini's greatest successor....
.

He is survived by relatives in the United States, mainly the Bass family.

Compositions

Op. 1, Andantino and Allegro scherzoso, for violin and piano (1848, dedicated to Joseph Böhm)
Op. 2, Three Pieces, (circa 1848-1852), Romanze, Fantasiestück, Eine Frühlingsfantasie for Violin or Viola and Piano
Op. 3, Violin Concerto in One Movement, (G minor, dedicated to Franz Liszt) (1851)
Op. 4, "Hamlet" Overture (1853)
Op. 5, Three Pieces for Violin and Piano: Lindenrauschen, Abendglocken, Ballade; (dedicated to Gisela von Arnim
Gisela von Arnim

Gisela von Arnim was a Germany writer, mainly of fairy tales.Gisela was the youngest child of Ludwig Achim von Arnim and Bettina von Arnim. She was not formally educated, being taught only by her sisters....
)
Op. 6, "Demetrius" Overture (Herman Grimm, dedicated to Franz Liszt)
Op. 7, "Henry IV" Overture (1854)
Op. 8, Overture to a Comedy by Gozzi (1854)
Op. 9, Hebrew Melodies, for Viola and Piano
Op. 10, Variations, for Viola and Piano (circa 1860)
Op. 11, Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor "in the Hungarian manner"
Violin Concerto No. 2 (Joachim)

Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor "in the Hungarian Manner" is a Romantic music violin concerto written by violinist Joseph Joachim . The critic has called it "the Holy Grail of Romantic violin concertos."...
(1861)
Op. 12, Notturno for Violin and Orchestra in A Major (1858)
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major (1875)
Op. 13, Elegiac Overture "In Memoriam Heinrich von Kleist" (ca. 1877)
Op. 14, Szene der Marfa from Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller [johan/jo?han kr?st?f fri?t??? f?n ??l??/??l?] was a Germany poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright....
's unfinished drama "Demetrius" (ca. 1869)
WoO, Ich hab' im Traum geweinet for voice and piano, pub. Wigand, 1854.
Scene from Schiller's Demetrius (1878)
WoO, Rain, rain and sun, Merlin's Song (Tennyson), pub. C. Kegan & Co., 1880.
Melodrama zu einer Schillergedenkfeier (unpublished, autograph in Hamburg Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek)
Overture in C major (Konzertouvertüre zum Geburtstag des Kaisers) (1896)
Two Marches for orchestra
Andantino in A minor, for violin and orchestra (also for violin and piano)
Romance in B flat Major, for violin and piano
Romance in C major, for violin and piano
Variationen über ein irisches Elfenlied for piano

Variations for Violin and Orchestra in E minor (dedicated to Pablo Sarasate, ca. 1879)

Joachim also composed cadenzas for Beethoven, Concerto in D Major, op. 61; Brahms, Concerto in D Major, op. 77; Kreutzer, Concerto No. 19 in d minor; Mozart, Aria from Il re pastore, Concerto in D Major, K. 218, and Concerto in A Major, K 219; Rode, Concerto No. 10 in b minor, and Concerto No. 11 in D Major; Spohr, Concerto in a minor, op. 47 (Gesangsszene); Tartini, Sonata in g minor (Devil's Trill); and Viotti, Concerto No 22 in a minor. He also made a virtuosic transcription for violin and piano of all 21 of Brahms's Hungarian Dances. In addition, in 1855 he made a version for full orchestra of Schubert

Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
's Grand Duo in C major for piano duet (D. 812), which many scholars at that time considered (probably incorrectly) to be a draft or piano reduction of a lost symphony.

He produced numerous editions of music, many in collaboration with Andreas Moser.

Recordings

Recordings by Joseph Joachim (1903)

J. S. Bach: Partita for Violin solo no 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: 7th movement, Tempo di Bourée, Joseph Joachim (Violin), Pearl Catalog: 9851 (also on Testament (749677132323)).
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances (21) for Piano 4 hands, WoO 1: no 1 in g minor (arr. Joachim), Joseph Joachim (Violin), Opal Recordings (also on Testament (749677132323)).
Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dance no. 2 in d minor (arr. Joachim), Joseph Joachim (Violin), Grammophon Catalogue # 047905; HMV, D88.
J. Joachim: Romance in C Major, Joseph Joachim (Violin), Pearl Catalog: 9851

Recordings of Joachim's Compositions
Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 11 "In the Hungarian Style" Rachel Barton Pine
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(Violin), Carlos Kalmar
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(Conductor), Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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, Cedille Records
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Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 11 "In the Hungarian Style": Elmar Oliviera (Violin), Leon Botstein
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(Conductor), London Philharmonic, IMP
Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 11 "In the Hungarian Style": Aaron Rosand
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(Violin), Louis de Froment
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(Conductor), Luxembourg Radio/Television Symphony Orchestra, Vox Catalog #: 5102
Violin Concerto No. 3, Takako Nishizaki
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(Violin), Meir Minsky
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(Conductor), Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
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, Naxos #: 8554733
Hamlet Overture, Op. 4, Meir Minsky (Conductor), Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
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Elegische Ouvertüre, Op. 13, Meir Minsky (Conductor), Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
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, Naxos #: 8554733
Andantino and Allegro scherzoso, Op. 1: Andantino, Marat Bisengaliev
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(Violin), John Lenehan (Piano), Naxos #: 553026
Romance in B flat major, Marat Bisengaliev
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(Violin), John Lenehan (Piano), Naxos #: 553026
Hebrew melodies, Op. 9, Anna Barbara Dütschler (Viola), Marc Pantillon (Piano), Claves #: 9905
Heinrich IV Overture, Op. 7 (2 pianos, arr. Johannes Brahms
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), Duo Egri-Pertis, Hungaroton #: 32003
Variations for Viola and Piano, Op. 10 (Numerous recordings)
Variations for Violin and Orchestra in E minor, Vilmos Szabadi
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(Violin), László Kovács (Conductor), North Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, Hungaroton #: 32185

Joachim's students

Leopold Auer
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Willy Burmester
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Will Marion Cook
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Carl Courvoisier (1846-1908), author of Technics of Violin Playing on Joachim's Method, London: The Strad Library, No. I, 1894.
Sam Franko
Sam Franko

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Karol Halir (1859-1909), Bohemian violinist, member of the Joachim Quartet.
Gustav Hille
Willy Hess
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Jeno Hubay
Jeno Hubay

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Violinist, composer.
Bronislaw Huberman
Bronislaw Huberman

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, (1882-1947)
Karl Klingler Violinist of the Klingler Quartet and Joachim's successor at the Berlin Hochschule. Klingler was the teacher of Shinichi Suzuki.
Joseph Kotek - Yosif / Josef. Russian violinist. (1855-1885)
Pietro Melani
W. J. Meyer (1853-1940)
Andreas Moser (1859-1925) Violinist and assistant to Joachim. Moser wrote the first biography of Joachim. He helped recover original scores of J.S. Bach's Sonate e Partite per violino solo, and collaborated with him on numerous editions.
Tivadar Nachèz
Tivadar Nachéz

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, (Budapest 1859 - Lausanne 1930)
Enrico Polo, (1868 - 1953).
Maud Powell
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Willibald Richter, (1860-1929), German-born English pianist, organist and teacher. Student, friend and accompanist of Joachim. Student of Haupt, Lebert, Liszt, Mischalek and Oscar. Founded College of Music at Leicester.
Camillo Ritter, teacher of William Primrose
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Ossip Schnirlin, (? - 1937)
Maria Soldat-Röger
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Theodore Spiering
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Franz von Vecsey
Franz von Vecsey

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, ( Budapest,1893-1935 ) Studied with Hubay, then Joachim. Dedicatee of the Sibelius violin concerto.
Alfred Wittenberg

Literature

Adolph Kohut, Josef Joachim. Ein Lebens- und Künstlerbild. Festschrift zu seinem 60. Geburtstage, am 28. Juni 1891, Berlin: A. Glas, 1891.
Johannes Joachim and Andreas Moser (eds.), Briefe von und an Joseph Joachim, 3 vols., Berlin: Julius Bard, 1911-1913
Andreas Moser (ed.), Johannes Brahms im Briefwechsel mit Joseph Joachim, 2nd ed., Berlin: Deutsche Brahms-Gesellschaft, 1912.
Letters From and To Joseph Joachim, selected and translated by Nora Bickley with a preface by J. A. Fuller-Maitland, New York: Vienna House, 1972.
Andreas Moser, Joseph Joachim: Ein Lebensbild, 2 vols. Berlin: Verlag der Deutschen Brahms-Gesellschaft, vol. 1: 1908; vol. 2: 1910.
Andreas Moser, Joseph Joachim: A Biography, translated by Lilla Durham, introduction by J. A. Fuller Maitland, London: Philip Wellby, 1901.
J. A. Fuller-Maitland, Joseph Joachim, London & New York: John Lane, 1905.
F. G. E., Joseph Joachim, Musical Times, 48/775 (September 1, 1907): 577-583.
Hans Joachim Moser, Joseph Joachim, Sechsundneunzigstes Neujahrsblatt der Allgemeinen Musikgesellschaft in Zürich, Zürich & Leipzig: Hug & Co., 1908
Karl Storck, Joseph Joachim: Eine Studie, Leipzig: Hermann Seemann Nachfolger, n.d.
Anne Russell, Joachim, The Etude, (December, 1932) 884-885.
Siegfried Borris, Joseph Joachim zum 65. Todestag, Oesterreichische Musikzeitschrift XXVII (June 1972): 352-355.
Barrett Stoll, Joseph Joachim: Violinist, Pedagogue, and Composer, Ph.D. Diss., Univ. of Iowa, 1978.
Brigitte Massin, Les Joachim: Une Famille de Musiciens, Paris: Fayard, 1999. ISBN 2-213-60418-5
Otto Biba, "Ihr Sie hochachtender, dankbarer Schüler Peppi" Joseph Joachims Jugend im Spiegel bislang unveröffentlicher Briefe, Die Tonkunst, Jg. 1, Nr. 3, Juli 2007, 200-204.
Beatrix Borchard, Stimme und Geige: Amalie und Joseph Joachim, Biographie und Interpretationsgeschichte, Wien, Köln, Weimar: , 2005.
Beatrix Borchard, Groß-männlich-deutsch? Zur Rolle Joseph Joachims für das deutsche Musikleben in der Wilhelminischen Zeit, Die Tonkunst, Jg. 1, Nr. 3, Juli 2007, 218-231.
Dietmar Shenk, Aus einer Gründerzeit: Joseph Joachim, die Berliner Hochschule für Musik und der deutsch-französische Krieg, Die Tonkunst, Jg. 1, Nr. 3, Juli 2007, 232-246.
Ute Bär, Sie wissen ja, wie gerne ich, selbst öffentlich, mit Ihnen musicire! Clara Schumann und Joseph Joachim, Die Tonkunst, Jg. 1, Nr. 3, Juli 2007, 247-257.
Gerhard Winkler (ed.) Geigen-Spiel-Kunst: Joseph Joachim und der "Wahre" Fortschritt, Burgenländische Heimatblätter, Jg. 69, Nr. 2, 2007.
Robert W. Eshbach, Der Geigerkönig: Joseph Joachim as Performer, Die Tonkunst, Jg. 1, Nr. 3, Juli 2007, 205-217.
Robert W. Eshbach, Verehrter Freund! Liebes Kind! Liebster Jo! Mein einzig Licht. Intimate letters in Brahms's Freundeskreis, Die Tonkunst, Jg. 2, Nr. 2, April 2008, 178-193.
Robert W. Eshbach, Free but Lonely: The Education of Joseph Joachim 1831-1866; forthcoming.

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