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MAXIMILIAN SCHWEDLER (HIRSCHBERG IM RIESENGEBIRGE, SILESIA (NOW IN POLAND), MARCH 31, 1853 – LEIPZIG, GERMANY, JANUARY 16, 1940)

 

 

 

 

He studied in Dresden under Friedrich August Meinel. In 1881, he left the orchestra of the Düsseldorf City Theatre to become a soloist in the orchestra of the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, where he remained until 1917. Johannes Brahms praised Schwedler after the first performance of the Fourth Symphony. Various composers dedicated works for flute to him, including Carl Reinecke, who dedicated his Flute Concerto, Op. 283, to him in 1908. He taught at the Leipzig Conservatory and was also active as a publisher. He authored the method Catechism of Flute Playing (Katechismus der Flöte und des Flötenspiels, 1897). In 1940, he committed suicide.

Schwedler was one of the last flutists to reject the Boehm flute model, preferring instruments based on the older conical traverso design. In 1885, he began making his own instruments and, together with the Erfurt flute maker Friedrich Wilhelm Kruspe—and later his son Karl—developed the “reformed Schwedler-Kruspe flute.”

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

Divertimento No 17 In D Major K 334 Iii Menuetto (Mozart) 2320 SP 3722

Divertimento No 17 In D Major K 334 Iii Menuetto (Mozart) Polyphon 3081

Italian Serenade (Köhler) Polyphon 3079

May Time Variations (Fahrbach) Klingsor 3085

Rondo Burlesco (Kuhlau) Klingsor 3084

Russian Carnival (Ciardi) Polyphon 3083

Russian Carnival (Ciardi) 2319 SP 3722