Violin, Moriz (1879-1956). concert pianist and composer, winner of the Brahms Prize in composition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in 1894, and a founding member of the Violin-Fischer-Klengel trio in Vienna and the Violin-Van den Berg-Buxbaum trio in Berlin. He taught in the piano Ausbildungsklasse at the Vienna Conservatory from 1908 (or 1909) to 1912, in which year he resigned from the Conservatory staff in protest at the way in which the new administration was forcing established professors into retirement, treating other members of staff, and at their not appointing Schenker to a professorship in theory. He published his letter of protest as a 34-page pamphlet (OJ 70/49a); a letter regretting his resignation was signed by 53 of his colleagues (OJ 70/59). In 1931, Violin established a private music school devoted to Schenker's theory: the Schenker-Institut, in Hamburg, at which he taught piano and Felix Eberhard von Cube theory. Violin fled Hamburg with the rise of Nazism c.May 1933 (see, e.g. OJ 9/34, [37], May 11, 1933, Cube to Schenker), leaving Cube to continue until the institute was closed down in 1934. In 1939 Violin moved to the USA, settling in San Francisco. His papers survive in the Oswald Jonas Memorial Collection at the University of California, Riverside. Violin, nicknamed "Fiorello", "Floriz" and "Florizello", was Schenker's oldest and closest friend. Their friendship began in 1896 and ended with S's death in 1935. He gave performances of S's piano compositions, and he and S gave the first performance of S's Syrian Dances for two pianos on January 26, 1900. Federhofer maintains that S's pseudonym for his Instrumentations-Tabelle, "Artur Niloff", is in part an approximate anagram of "Violin". Violin's booklet Über das sogenannte Continuo (Vienna: UE, 1910) was originally written as a program note for a "historical concert" that was to take place in the Conservatory (Akademie) in 1910 but was cancelled. See Violin's voluminous correspondence with Schenker (the two wrote to each other almost every day) (OJ 6/1-8, 7/1-4, 8/1-5; 14/45-46; Violin's obituary for S, "Zur Erinnerung an Heinrich Schenker" OJ 70/54). His correspondence with Cube survives in part as OJ 70/2 and 70/11. Also mentioned in: WSLB 14, August 19, 1908 (S to Hertzka/UE: complimentary copy) WSLB 25, November 9, 1908 (S to Hertzka/UE: complimentary copy) OC 52/28, November 11, 1908 (Hertzka/UE to S: complimentary copy) WSLB 44, October 18, 1909 (S to Hertzka/UE) WSLB 53, February 15, 1910 (S to Hertzka/UE) WSLB 66/67, October 19, 1910 (S to Hertzka/UE: complimentary copy) OC 52/62, January 19, 1911 (Hertzka/UE to Violin) vC 33, November 10, 1930 (Schenker to Cube) vC 34, December 5, 1930 (Schenker to Cube) OJ 9/34, [24], April 25, 1931 (Cube to Schenker) OJ 9/34, [25], May 9, 1931 (Cube to Schenker) vC 36, June 6, 1931 (Schenker to Cube) vC 38, June 30, 1931 (Schenker to Cube) OJ 5/18, 33, December 21, 1933 (Schenker to Jonas) OJ 5/18, 43, June 24, 1934 (Schenker to Jonas) OC 44/9, October 27, 1934 (Jonas to Schenker) |
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| Violin, Moriz (1879-1956). concert pianist and composer, winner of the Brahms Prize in composition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in 1894, and a founding member of the Violin-Fischer-Klengel trio in Vienna and the Violin-Van den Berg-Buxbaum trio in Berlin. He... | |