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BRONISLAW HUBERMAN (CZESTOCHOWA, POLAND, 19 DECEMBER, 1882 – CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, SWITZERLAND, 16 JUNE, 1947)

 

 

 

 

Huberman was born in Częstochowa, Poland. In his youth he was a pupil of Mieczysław Michałowicz and Maurycy Rosen at the Warsaw Conservatory, and of Isidor Lotto in Paris. In 1892 he studied under Joseph Joachim in Berlin. Despite being only ten years old, he dazzled Joachim with performances of Louis Spohr, Henri Vieuxtemps, and the transcription of a Frédéric Chopin nocturne. However, the two did not get along well, and after Huberman’s fourteenth birthday he took no more lessons. In 1893 he toured the Netherlands and Belgium as a virtuoso performer. Around this time, the six-year-old Arthur Rubinstein attended one of Huberman’s concerts. Rubinstein’s parents invited Huberman back to their house and the two boys struck up what would become a lifetime friendship. In 1894 Adelina Patti invited Huberman to participate in her farewell gala in London, which he did, and in the following year he actually eclipsed her in appearances in Vienna. In 1896 he performed the violin concerto of Johannes Brahms in the presence of the composer, who was stunned by the quality of his playing. He married the German actress Elza Galafrés (also described as a singer and ballerina). They had a son, Johannes, but the marriage did not last. In the 1920s and early 1930s, Huberman toured around Europe and North America with the pianist Siegfried Schultze and performed on the most famous stages (Carnegie in New York, Scala in Milan, Musikverein in Vienna, Konzerthaus in Berlin….). Over the course of many years, the duet Huberman-Schultze were regularly invited in private by European Royal Families. Countless recordings of these artists were done during that period at the “Berliner Rundfunk” and were unfortunately destroyed during the Second World War. In 1937, a year before the Anschluss, Huberman left Vienna and took refuge in Switzerland. The following year, his career nearly ended as a result of an airplane accident in Sumatra in which his wrist and two fingers of his left hand were broken. After intensive and painful retraining he was able to resume performing. At the onset of the Second World War, Huberman was touring South Africa and was unable to return to his home in Switzerland until after the war. Shortly thereafter he fell ill from exhaustion and never regained his strength. He died in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland, on June 16, 1947, at age 64.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

1	1899/?/?	Berliner	Chopin	Nocturne Es-dur,Op.9-2 (arr.Sarasate)	1	with piano accompaniment
2	1899/?/?	Berliner	Schubert	Moment Musical f-moll,D780-3 (arr.Auer)	1	with piano accompaniment
3	1921/10/18	Brunswick	Chopin	Nocturne Es-dur,Op.9-2 (arr.Sarasate)	2	with Paul Frenkel (p)
4	1921/10/18	Brunswick	Elgar	La Capricieuse, Op.17	1	with Paul Frenkel (p)
5	1921/11/30	Brunswick	JSBach	Air on the G-String (arr.Wilhelmj)	1	with Paul Frenkel (p)
6	January 28, 1922	Brunswick	Tchaikovsky	Melodie Es-dur, Op.42-3	1	with Paul Frenkel (p)
7	January 28, 1922	Brunswick	Brahms	Hungarian Dance No.1 g-moll	1	with Paul Frenkel (p)
8	January 28, 1922	Brunswick	Bazzini	Dance of the Goblins, Op.25		with Paul Frenkel (p)
9	January 31, 1922	Brunswick	Wieniawski	Mazurka D-dur,Op.19-2″Dudziarz”		with Paul Frenkel (p)
10	1922/11/10	Brunswick	Vieuxtemps	Ballade and Polonaise		with Paul Frenkel (p)
11	1922/11/23	Brunswick	Bruch	Kol Nidre, Op.47	1	with Paul Frenkel (p)
12	1922/11/23	Brunswick	Zarzycki	Mazurka in G	1	with Paul Frenkel (p)
13	January 1, 1923	Brunswick	Tchaikovsky	Canzonetta from Concert for Violin D-dur,Op.35		with Paul Frenkel (p)
14	January 11, 1923	Brunswick	Wieniawski	Capriccio Valse e moll, Op.7		with Paul Frenkel (p)
15	January 11, 1923	Brunswick	Paganini	La Campanella form Concert for Violin No.2 h-moll,Op.7		with Paul Frenkel (p)
16	February 21, 1923	Brunswick	Wieniawski	Romance from Concert for Violin d-moll,Op.22		with Paul Frenkel (p)
17	February 26, 1923	Brunswick	Lalo	Andante and Ronde from Symphonie Espagnole D-dur,Op.21		with Paul Frenkel (p)
18	March 5, 1923	Brunswick	Brahms	Hungarian Dance No.7 A-dur		with Paul Frenkel (p)
19	March 5, 1923	Brunswick	Gluck	Mélodie from”ORFEO ED EURIDICE” (arr.Wilhelmj)		with Paul Frenkel (p)
20	1924/?/?	Brunswick	Mendelssohn	Andante and Allegro molto vivace from Concert for Violin e-moll,Op.64		with Paul Frenkel (p)
twenty one	1924/?/?	Brunswick	Sarasate	Romanza Andaluza, Op.22-1	1	with Siegfried Schulze (p)
twenty two	1924/?/?	Brunswick	Sarasate	Jota Navarra		with Siegfried Schulze (p)
twenty three	1925/?/?	Brunswick	Sarasate	“CARMEN” Fantasy, Op.25		with Siegfried Schulze (p)
twenty four	1925/?/?	Brunswick	Beethoven	Sonata for Violon and Piano No.9 A-dur,0p.47″Kreutzer”	1	with Siegfried Schulze (p)
twenty five	1928/12/28-30	Columbia	Tchaikovsky	Concert for Violin D-dur,Op.35	1	with Staatskapelle Berlin / Hans Wilhelm Steinberg (cond.)
26	1929/?/?	Columbia	Tchaikovsky	Melodie Es-dur, Op.42-3	2	with Siegfried Schulze (p)
27	1929/?/?	Columbia	Chopin	Waltz cis-moll,Op.64-2 (arr.Huberman)	1	with Siegfried Schulze (p)
28	1929/?/?	Columbia	Sarasate	Romanza Andaluza, Op.22-1	2	with Siegfried Schulze (p)
29	1929/?/?	Columbia	JSBach	Air on the G-String (arr.Wilhelmj)	2	with Siegfried Schulze (p)
30	1929/?/?	Columbia	Zarzycki	Mazurka in G	2	with Siegfried Schulze (p)
31	1929/?/?	Columbia	Brahms	Waltz As-dur,Op.39-15 (arr.Hochstein)		with Siegfried Schulze (p)
32	September 11-12, 1930	Columbia	Beethoven	Sonata for Violon and Piano No.9 A-dur,0p.47″Kreutzer” (2TAKE:1move)	2	with Ignaz Friedman (p)
33	1930/?/?	Columbia	Bruch	Kol Nidre, Op.47	2	with Siegfried Schulze (p)
34	1930/?/?	Columbia	Schubert	Ave Maria, D.839 (arr. Wilhelmj)		with Siegfried Schulze (p)
35	1930/?/?	Columbia	Elgar	La Capricieuse, Op.17	2	with Siegfried Schulze (p)
36	1932/?/?	Columbia	Brahms	Hungarian Dance No.1 g-moll	2	with Siegfried Schulze (p)
37	1933/?/?	Columbia	Chopin	Waltz cis-moll,Op.64-2 (arr.Huberman)	2	with Siegfried Schulze (p)
38	June 13, 1934	Columbia	JSBach	Concert for Violin No.1 a-moll,BWV.1041		with Wiener Philharmoniker / Issay Dobrowen (cond.)
39	June 13, 1934	Columbia	JSBach	Concert for Violin No.2 E-dur,BWV.1042		with Wiener Philharmoniker / Issay Dobrowen (cond.)
40	June 14, 1934	Columbia	Mozart	Concert for Violin No.3 G-dur,K.216		with Wiener Philharmoniker / Issay Dobrowen (cond.)
41	June 16-17, 1934	Columbia	Lalo	Symphonie Espagnole D-dur, Op.21		with Wiener Philharmoniker / George Szell (cond.)
42	June 18-20, 1934	Columbia	Beethoven	Concert for Violin D-dur,Op.61	1	with Wiener Philharmoniker / George Szell (cond.)
43	June 26, 1934	Columbia	JSBach	Sarabande form Partita for Solo Violin No.1 h-moll,BWV.1002
44	June 26, 1934	Columbia	JSBach	Andante from Sonata for Solo Violin No.2 a-moll,BWV.1003
45	May 2, 1935	Columbia	Chopin	Nocturne Es-dur,Op.9-2 (arr.Sarasate)	3	with Siegfried Schulze (p)
46	May 2, 1935	Columbia	Chopin	Waltz Ges-dur,Op.70-1 (arr.Huberman)		with Siegfried Schulze (p)
47	May 2, 1935	Columbia	Schubert	Moment Musical f-moll,D.780-3 (arr.Auer)	2	with Siegfried Schulze (p)
48	May 14, 1935	Columbia	JSBach	Chorale Prelude”Nun komm, Der heiden heiland”BWV.659 (arr.Huberman)	1	with Siegfried Schulze (p)
49	April 19, 1936		Sarasate	Romanza Andaluza, Op.22-1	3	with Siegfried Schulze [possibly](p)
50	1942/10/18	Live in New York	Smetana	From my Homeland		with Boris Roubakine (p)
51	1942/10/18		JSBach	Chorale Prelude”Nun komm, Der heiden heiland”BWV.659 (arr.Huberman)	2	with Boris Roubakine (p)[final bars missing]
52	December 6, 1942	Live in New York	JSBach	Partita for Solo Violin No.2 d-moll,BWV.1004
53	April 25, 1943	Live in New York	Brahms	Sonata for Violin and Piano No.1 G-dur,Op.78		with Boris Roubakine (p)
54	1943/7?/?	Live in New York	Sarasate	Romanza Andaluza Op. 22 No. 1		with Boris Roubakine (p)
55	January 16, 1944	Live in New York	Schubert	Phantasia C-dur, D.934		with Boris Roubakine (p)
56	January 23, 1944	Live in New York	Brahms	Concert for Violin D-dur,Op.77		with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra / Artur Rodzinski (cond.)
57	December 17, 1944	Live in New York	Beethoven	Concert for Violin D-dur,Op.61	2	with The National Orchestral Association / Leon Barzin (cond.)
58	1945/12/16?	Live in New York	Mozart	Concert for Violin No.4 D-dur,K.218		with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra / Bruno Walter (cond.)
59	1946/3/?	Live in Philadelphia	Tchaikovsky	Concert for Violin D-dur,Op.35	2	with Philadelphia Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy (cond.)