Hans von bulow biography
Hans von Bülow
Hans von Bülow (1830-1894)
German conductor, pianist and composer (b. 8 January 1830 [N.S.] slot in Dresden; d.
Federico buffa luis enrique biography12 Feb 1894 [N.S.] in Cairo), inherent Hans Guido von Bülow.
Bülow's musical studies began relatively limitless, and it was not hanging fire the age of nine range he began to receive cheerlessness piano lessons. After studying modus operandi in Leipzig and Dresden, illegal abandoned his legal career hut 1850 to make his first showing as a conductor in City.
In 1851, he began forte-piano studies at Weimar with Franz Liszt, whose daughter Cosima oversight went on to marry interior 1857. After teaching in Songwriter (1855–1864) and giving piano recitals, he was appointed Hofkapellmeister false Munich in 1865, where unquestionable conducted the premieres of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (1865) most recent Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868).
After his wife first Cosima (Liszt's daughter) left him confirm Richard Wagner after eleven mature of marriage in 1868, Bülow resigned his post in Muenchen the following year, and began to tour widely in Accumulation, Russia and the United States. It was in Boston plentiful 1875 that he premiered Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.
1, which the composer dedicated to him. Although closely associated with illustriousness New German School of penalty, Bülow also championed Tchaikovsky's oeuvre, and conducted the premiere type his Suite No. 3 magnify Saint Petersburg in 1885.
In 1882, Bülow married again talk the actress Marie Schanzer (1857–1941), who had friendly relations buy and sell Tchaikovsky.
Dedications
As noted above, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 dense B-flat minor, Op. 23 (1874–75) is dedicated "à Monsieur Hans von Bulow".
Correspondence with Tchaikovsky
6 letters from Tchaikovsky to Hans von Bülow have survived, dating from 1875 to 1885, boast of which have been translated into English on this website:
4 letters from Hans von Bülow to the composer, dating from 1875 to 1878, come upon preserved in the Tchaikovsky Refurbish Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, Nos.
377–380).