Ferdinand David (musician)

miere of the work in 1845. He died suddenly in 1873,

aged 63, while on a mountain excursion with his chil-
dren, near Klosters in the Graubnden (Grisons) area of
Switzerland.[3]

2 Compositions

Davids own compositions number about 50 opuses. They

include 12 theme and variations pieces for violin and
Orchestra, ve violin concertos, a string sextet, Con-
certinos for Violin, Bassoon, Clarinet & Trombone and
Orchestra, and a number of Lieder. Supposedly he also
wrote two symphonies and an opera (Hans Wacht, 1852).
Unfortunately, these have not been veried to have been
preserved. Davids most played piece today is with-
out a doubt his Concertino for Trombone and Orches-
tra (Op.4). This piece is very often used as the oblig-
atory piece for trombonists auditioning for symphony-
orchestras around the world.

Ferdinand David

Ferdinand David (German: [davt]; 19 June 1810 18 3 Editions and Arrangements

July 1873)[1] was a German virtuoso violinist and com-
poser.
David had close connections with Breitkopf & Hrtel and
other publishers in Leipzig, and also worked as editor
of violin works including those of Francesco Maria Ve-
1 Biography racini, Pietro Locatelli and Johann Gottlieb Goldberg. He
was editor of the complete Beethoven piano trios for C.F.
Born in the same house in Hamburg where Felix Peters Edition. He was also editor of the set of J.S. Bach's
Mendelssohn had been born the previous year,[2] David Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in 1843.
was raised Jewish but later converted to Christianity.
David was a pupil of Louis Spohr and Moritz Hauptmann He made an arrangement for violin and piano of Niccol
from 1823 to 1824 and in 1826 became a violinist at Paganini's 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, which was the
Knigstdtischen Theater in Berlin. In 1829 he was the version used for the world premiere integral recording
rst violinist of Baron Carl Gotthard von Liphardts (fa- of the Caprices, by Ossy Renardy and Walter Robert in
ther of Karl Eduard von Liphart) string quartet in Dorpat 1940, the centenary of Paganinis death; this was seven
and he undertook concert tours in Riga, Saint Peters- years before Ruggiero Ricci made [4]
the rst recording of
burg and Moscow. In 1835 he became concertmaster the original solo violin version.
(Konzertmeister) at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig working The Chaconne in G minor attributed to Tomaso Antonio
with Mendelssohn. David returned to Dorpat to marry Vitali was published for the rst time from a manuscript
Lipharts daughter Sophie.[2] In 1843 David became in the Schsische Landesbibliothek in Dresden in Davids
the rst professor of violin (Violinlehrer) at the newly well renowned violin-method Die Hohe Schule des Violin-
founded Leipziger Konservatorium fr Musik. David spiels (1867). He also wrote an often used version of the
worked closely with Mendelssohn, providing technical cadenza for Beethovens violin-concerto, used by 12-year
advice during the preparation of the latters Violin Con- old Joseph Joachim at the revival-concert of this piece in
certo in E minor. He was also the soloist in the pre- 1844, under Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

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4 Trivia
David played on a 1742 Guarneri violin, which later be-
came the main performance violin for Jascha Heifetz.
The David Guarneri violin is now in the collection of the
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; it is on perma-
nent loan to Alexander Barantschik who has showcased
it with the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco
Academy Orchestra.
On the recommendation of William Sterndale Bennett,
with whom he had worked in Leipzig, Davids son Paul
David became the rst Director of Music at Uppingham
School from 18641908.[5]

5 References
[1] David, Ferdinand (1810-1873) - Composer. Hyperion
Records. Retrieved 2013-09-03.

[2] Silvela, Zdenko (2001). A new history of violin playing :

the vibrato and Lambert Massarts revolutionary discovery.
USA: Universal Publishers. p. 140. ISBN 1581126670.

[3] Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed, 1954,

Vol. II, p. 606

[4] Woolf, Jonathan (2003). Ossy Renardy. The Great Vio-

linists Volume XVIII. Musicweb-international.com. Re-
trieved 2013-09-03.

[5] Matthews, Bryan (1984). By Gods Grace. A history of

Uppingham School.

6 External links
Free scores by Ferdinand David at the International
Music Score Library Project

Ferdinand David. Messianic Judaism Wiki.

2011-11-14. Retrieved 2014-01-01.

Jong, Cameo (2012). Rediscovering Ferdinand

Davids violin pedagogy through his Violinschule and
zur Violinschule (Thesis). University of Iowa. Re-
trieved 2014-01-01.
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