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MAX MICHAILOW MORDECHAJ FINKELSTEIN (BERLIN, MAY 11, 1912 – MUNICH, FEBRUARY 19, 1991)

 

 

 

 

At the beginning of the First World War with his father, the violinist and band leader Mikhail Mikhailov and his mother, the daughter of the concert master Polischuk, fled to Sweden, Finkelstein received violin lessons from Leopold Auer . After the war he returned to Berlin with his parents and began studying violin as Max Michailow on September 1, 1926 at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, where his father had already studied . In the end he was accepted into the master class by Alexander Petschnikoff. He also traveled through Europe as a ” child prodigy “. Like his father in 1914, he also became a violinist on June 12, 1929 with Gustav HollaenderMedal awarded. At the beginning of 1933, Max Michailow was to become a member of the Berlin Philharmonic , which prevented the National Socialists from seizing power . The following months shook Michailow’s health so much that he contracted tuberculosis and spent the years 1934 and 1935 in Davos for a cure. After the Nuremberg Race Laws were passed on September 15, 1935, his career in Germany seemed over. He could only appear at the Jewish Cultural Association and because of the alias ban only under his real name Mordechaj Finkelstein. In the spring of 1941, he was drafted into forced labor. In 1943 he managed to go underground. He survived in stairwells and basements of bombed out buildings, was seriously injured in a bomb attack and suffered a nerve paralysis. He couldn’t see a doctor. After recovery, he joined a resistance group. In the last months of the war hidden Frida him and his mother from the Nazis Fischer.  In 1945 he helped rebuild the radio symphony orchestra in Berlin under Soviet occupation. he could his war wounds because only take a violin in his hand again in 1948. With the Berlin Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Artur Rother, he again presented himself to the audience with Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. For the next few years he was concertmaster at Berliner Rundfunk. In addition, he directed a chamber quartet consisting of Helmut Pietsch (2nd violin), Hugo Fricke (viola) and Werner Haupt (cello). It was heard in the broadcast of the GDR often. He also recorded German records for the state company Eterna / VEB . His piano accompanist was often Erwin Milzkott . After the construction of the Berlin Wall , Mikhailov left the GDR in 1961 and went to Munich, where he got a job as the first concert master on the radio. He also made vinyl recordings in the west, this time at Telefunken. In 1975 he had to give up the post for health reasons, because the aftermath of the war made it difficult for him. He died on February 19, 1991 in Munich. The “ Silent Heroes Memorial ” opened at the end of October 2009 in Berlin-Mitte at Rosenthaler Straße 39 also commemorates the fate of Max Michailow.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

Ballgeflüster (Meyer-Hellmund) Polyphon 16046

Blumenlied (Gustav Lange) Polyphon 110041 50362

Frühlingslied (Gounod) Polyphon 16046

Gavotte (Gossec) Okeh 4449-B B 4449B 4

Gavotte Michailow Beka S 422 49928

Grossmütterchen Ländler von Gustav Langer Polyphon 110040 50362

Liebes-Ständchen (Berceuse tendre) (Leo Daniderf) Polyphon 120007 100 as

Madame Alexandrewa Erinnerung (Y. Rikh) violin M. Michailow Parlophon P 1392-II 5810

Madame Alexandrewa Verlangen (O. Osker) violin M. Michailow Parlophon P 1392-I 5809

Mattinata (Leoncavallo) Polyphon 120005 96 as

Nocturne in E Flat (Chopin) Okeh 4450-A 4450 A

Peer Gynt Suite Solveigs Parlophon ‎P. 1040-I 2483

Poème (Fibich) Parlophon P. 1040-II 2484

Pòême (Fibich-Kubelik) Polyphon 16043 284 ar

Reverie (Schumann) Okeh 4450-B 4450B

Romance, Part I (Rubinstein) Okeh 4394-A 4394A

Romance, Part II (Rubinstein) Okeh 4394-B 4394B

Träumerei (Schumann) Beka S 422 49927

Träumerei (Schumann) Polyphon 16043 283 ar