Description

LEOPOLD PREMYSLAV

 

 

 

Leopold Premyslav or Premiswlav came from Warsaw and began performing as a child prodigy in Berlin and London. He studied in Berlin c.1899-1902 with Jacobsen and Joachim. His teachers also included Wilhelmy and Ysaÿe. After concert tours around the world, he settled in Berlin and was engaged by Richard Strauss as a concertmaster at the Royal Opera House. He performed regularly as a soloist at the symphony concerts conducted by Furtwängler and Weingartner and as a leader of his Premyslav-Quartet. After 1933 he embarked on another world tour, first to South America, then the United States and Australia. He eventually settled in South Africa, another violinist who had to flee from the Nazis. His wife was the cellist Eugenie Stoltz-Premyslav. Premyslav died in 1952 at the age of 67 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where a foundation named after him still exists or existed until recently.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos: Auftritt und Tanz der Schneider Gramophone 040744 357 aL

Neues Tonkünstler-Orchester, conducted by Richard Strauss, 1913

 

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Berlin State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Richard Strauss, 1926

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, pt. 1 Polydor B 20657 360 bg,

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, pt. 2 Polydor B 20658 361 bg

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Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, pt. 4 Polydor B 20660 363 bg

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Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, pt. 6 Polydor B 20662 6 bm

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Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, pt. 8 Polydor B 20664 367 bg

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, pt. 9 Polydor B 20665 368 bg

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, pt. 10 Polydor B 20666 369 bg