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Saint-Saens Havanaise Op.83 Violin and Piano Score with separate violin part Published by G. Schirmer Excellent pre-owned condition from the massive collection of a longtime Julliard Music Professor name on upper right of cover Ashlyn 1
International Library of Music for Violinists Volume I Part I
(International Library of Music for Violinists Volume I Pa...)
International Library of Music for Violinists Volume I Part I copyright 1927 this is the Volume I Part I only hardcover book The book is in good condition, with an inscription "To Michael Applebaum In Memory of Udo G. Gossweiler" age appropriate wear 158 pages A violinist told me that this series are very good valuable books to own with excellent music inside, see my other listings for other books from this series 16-06
Theodore Spiering was an American violinist, conductor, and teacher. He is noted as the founder of Spiering Violin School in Chicago.
Background
Theodore was born on September 5, 1871 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, the elder of two sons of Ernst and Theresa (Bernays) Spiering. His father, an excellent violinist, who was born in Lubeck, Germany, was brought to the United States at the age of ten and for twenty-five years was concert-master of the St. Louis symphony orchestra, as well as first violin of the Beethoven String Quartet. His mother was born in Highland, Illinois, the daughter of Charles L. Bernays, a prominent newspaper man.
Education
At the age of five the boy had his first lessons on the violin from his father and at seven made his first public appearance. He attended the public schools of St. Louis until he was fifteen, when he went to Cincinnati to study for two years with Henry Schradieck at the Cincinnati College of Music. The next four years, 1888-92, he spent in Berlin, where he studied with Joseph Joachim and during his last year was concert-master of the Joachim Hochschule Orchestra.
Career
As a result of a letter from Joachim to Theodore Thomas, Spiering in 1892 became a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and remained with it until 1896. During this period he frequently appeared as soloist under Thomas, especially during the World's Columbian Exposition, and organized the Spiering Quartet, which during the twelve years of its existence, 1893-1905, gave over four hundred concerts.
Going abroad, he established himself as a concert artist and teacher in Berlin, 1905-09, and made successful concert tours through Germany, England, and Holland. Having attracted the attention of Gustav Mahler, he was appointed concert-master of the New York Philharmonic Society, 1909-11, and during Mahler's prolonged last illness in 1911 conducted the seventeen remaining concerts of the season, each of which added new laurels to his brilliant record as conductor.
The New York press, with rare unanimity, was enthusiastic in his praise, and it was expected that he would be chosen Mahler's successor, but the American tradition prevailed of seeking conductors in Europe. Disappointed, Spiering returned to Berlin, where he was engaged as a conductor, 1911-14, and toured Germany, Scandinavia, and Switzerland as a soloist. He was also musical adviser of the Neue Freie Volksbohne in Berlin and conductor of their symphony concerts, besides appearing as guest conductor of the Philharmonic and Blothner orchestras.
Always on the outlook for worthy novelties, he gave the first Berlin performances of such works as symphonies by Georges Enesco and Paul Dukas, the "Concerto in Antique Style" of Max Reger, Frederick Delius' "In a Summer Garden, " Emil Reznicek's "Der Sieger" (with unusual success), and Henry Hadley's "The Culprit Fay. " After the outbreak of the World War he made his permanent home in New York, devoting himself largely to teaching (he was a born pedagogue) and to extensive editorial work.
In the New York season of 1918-19 he conducted performances of Maurice Maeterlinck's "The Betrothal" with music by Eric Delamarter; in September 1923 he was once more guest conductor in Berlin and Vienna, and won renewed praise. He was appointed conductor of the Portland (Oregon) Symphony Orchestra in 1925. Partly for rest - he had always worked under the handicaps of poor health and extreme nervousness - and partly to select new works for the coming season, he went abroad again, but he was taken ill in Munich and there died, survived by his mother, his wife, and two daughters.
He died on August 11, 1925 and was buried in St. Louis.
Though he was a brilliant performer and possessed deep musicianship, he was modest and unassuming in his bearing and affable in his personal relationships.
Connections
He was married on October 2, 1895, at Arlington, New Jersey, to Frida Mueller, daughter of Wilhelm Mueller, New York journalist and writer.