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Fuchs, Lillian(b New York, 18 Nov 1902; d Englewood, NJ, 6 Oct 1995). American viola player, composer and teacher, sister of Joseph Fuchs. She studied the violin with Svecenski and Kneisel, and composition with Goetschius, at the New York Institute of Musical Art (now the Juilliard School), winning several awards on graduation. Her New York début in 1926 was as a violinist, but she soon turned to the viola, and was a member of the Perolé String Quartet from 1927 to the mid-1940s. As well as appearing regularly in the chamber concerts of the Musicans’ Guild with her brothers Joseph (violin) and Harry (cello) (b 1908; d Cleveland, 1986), she toured extensively as a solo violist in the USA and in Europe, and played at the 1953 Casals Festival at Prades. Several viola works were written for her, including a Sonata (1955) by Jacques de Menasce; Martinů’s Madrigaly (1947) for violin and viola, Duo no.2 for violin and viola (1950) and Sonata (1956) for viola and piano; and Quincy Porter’s Duo for viola and harp (1957). She played a viola by Gaspare da Salò, handling it with ease, in spite of her small stature, and with flawless technique, obtaining a rich and expressive tone. Renowned as a chamber music coach, Lillian Fuchs taught at the Manhattan School of Music from 1962, the Aspen Summer Institute, Colorado, from 1964, and the Juilliard School of Music from 1971. Her own published works for solo viola include 12 Caprices (1950), Sonata pastorale (1956), 16 Fantasy Etudes (1961) and 15 Characteristic Studies (1965), also a Jota and Caprice fantastique for violin and piano. She arranged Mozart’s Violin Concerto in G (k216) for viola and provided it with cadenzas (1947), and she was the first to perform and record Bach’s six Cello Suites on the viola. With her brother Joseph she made outstanding recordings of Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante and Duos for violin and viola. Her twin daughters (b 1935) are professional musicians: Carol Amado (violin) and Barbara Mallow (cello). BIBLIOGRAPHYD. Sills: ‘The Viola Music of Lillian Fuchs’, American String Teacher, xxxv/2 (1985), 59 A.D. Williams: Lillian Fuchs, First Lady of the Viola (Lewiston, NY, 1994) M. Campbell: Obituary, The Independent (14 Oct 1995) BORIS SCHWARZ/R Fuchs, Marta(b Stuttgart, 1 Jan 1898; d Stuttgart, 22 Sept 1974). German soprano. She studied in Stuttgart, Munich and Milan. She made her début as a mezzo in Aachen in 1928, where she stayed until 1930, and was then engaged by Fritz Busch for the Dresden Staatsoper; among her roles were Octavian, Amneris, Azucena, Eboli and Ortrud. Gradually she assumed dramatic soprano roles, the first being Kundry (1933, Amsterdam; 1933–7, Bayreuth). She became the most important soprano at Bayreuth during the 1930s, succeeding Leider as Brünnhilde (1938–42) and sharing Isolde with her in 1938. She sang at Covent Garden with the Dresden company in 1936 (Donna Anna, the Marschallin and Ariadne), and in Paris (1938) with the Berlin Staatsoper, of which she was also a member. Fuchs had a warm and expressive voice, and was among the most impressive interpreters of Brünnhilde of her day, as her recording of Act 2 of Die Walküre confirms. She was also an accomplished singer of lieder, and made notable recordings of Schubert’s Erlkönig and Wolf’s Geh, Geliebter. (GV; L. Riemens) LEO RIEMENS/ALAN BLYTH Fuchs, Melchior.See Vulpius, Melchior. Fuchs [Fux], Peter [Pietro](b ?Vienna, 22 Jan 1753; d Vienna, 15 June 1831). Violinist and composer active in Austria. His death certificate records that he was born in Vienna, but there are suggestions of a Bohemian origin: he is traditionally held to have learnt the violin in Prague, and Dittersdorf in his autobiography mentioned having heard him and Pichl play violin concertos there; according to Dlabač (1815), he was well known in Prague as a brilliant violinist. Dittersdorf engaged Fuchs, Pichl and others for the private orchestra of Bishop Adam Patachich at Grosswardein (now Oradea, Romania), where Fuchs stayed until the orchestra was disbanded in 1769. On 6 January 1781 he was appointed at Eszterháza under Haydn; from 1 March 1782 to his death he played second violin in the court chapel and theatre orchestras at Vienna, where he was also a teacher and soloist at the Tonkünstler-Societät, of which he became a member in 1791. He married F.L. Gassmann’s daughter Anna Maria (1771–1852), an opera singer. Fuchs’s violin compositions reveal something of his virtuoso abilities as well as the influence of the Italian violin school, particularly in the orchestral dances with solo violin. It is uncertain whether the sacred works attributed to ‘P. Fux’ in the Göttweig Katalogus musicalium are his. WORKSprinted works published in Vienna unless otherwise stated
BIBLIOGRAPHYČSHS J.N. Forkel: Musikalischer Almanach für Deutschland … 1783 (Leipzig, 1782/R) J.F. von Schönfeld, ed.: Jb der Tonkunst von Wien und Prag (Vienna, 1796/R) C. Ditters von Dittersdorf: Lebensbeschreibung (Leipzig, 1801; Eng. trans., 1896/R); ed. N. Miller (Munich, 1967) G.J. Dlabac: Allgemeines historisches Künstler-Lexikon, i (Prague, 1815/R) CAMILLO SCHOENBAUM Directory: download -> 3062a7ba-8b89-4266-8568-82026f790e50 -> Bibliografia%20Básica download -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations download -> Bbc archives: Beyond the programme download download -> Occupational health and safety download -> Dynatest 3031 lwd light Weight Deflectometer download -> Forth coming competitive exams download -> English Olympiad Tasks: 10 th form Аудіювання, 10 клас. Текст download -> Brush High School Morning Announcements Friday, September 05, 2014 all school download -> Year 9 The Arts — Music download -> Years 7 and 8 standard elaborations — Australian Curriculum: Music draft Bibliografia%20Básica -> Oakeley, Sir Herbert (Stanley) Download 19.1 Mb. Share with your friends:
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