Ludwig Abel
Ludwig Abel (14 January 1835 – 13 August 1895) was a German violinist, composer, and conductor.
Ludwig Abel
- Born
- 1835 · Eckartsberga.
- Died
- 1895 · Pasing.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Prussia · German Empire
- Occupation
- composer · music educator · violinist · concertmaster
- Teachers
- Ferdinand David
- Honours
- Order of Saint Michael
- Languages
- German
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Ludwig Abel (14 January 1835 – 13 August 1895) was a German violinist, composer, and conductor.
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Born in Eckartsberga, Province of Saxony, he was a pupil of Ferdinand David. He became a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and in 1853 moved to the court orchestra of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in Weimar. From 1860 he taught at the Charitable Society of Violin Playing. At the suggestion of the Bavarian Court Kapellmeister Hans von Bülow, whom he had met in Basel in 1866 and joined in organizing joint chamber music performances, Abel went on to become concertmaster of the court orchestra in Munich in 1867. He took up teaching at the Musikschule in Munich managed by Hans von Bülow, where he became Professor in 1880 and retired in 1894 he died in Berlin at age 60. Abel's compositions included a violin concerto and a violin method as well as études and duos for violin.
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- 1.Alfred Freiherr von Mensi. Ludwig Abel. 1895-08-16.
- 2.Katharina Loose-Einfalt. Melancholie-Natur -Musik. Zum Horntrio von Johannes Brahms. 2017. 978-3-95983-105-5.
- 3.Umschau und Statistik. 1867-08-22.
- 4.Bayerisches. 1867-08-12.
- 5.Verschiedenes. 1885-01-07.
- 6.Bayerische Chronik. 1886-01-06.
- 7.Bayerische Chronik. 1894-03-06.
- 8.Alfred Freiherr von Mensi. Ludwig Abel. 1895-08-16.
- 9.Herr Ludwig Abel. 1895-08-14.
- 10.Mittheilungen und Nachrichten. 1894-10-10.
- 11.Alfred Freiherr von Mensi. Ludwig Abel. 1895-08-16.
- 12.Herr Ludwig Abel. 1895-08-14.
- 13.New England Conservatory Library. The neume. 1925.
- 14.Harvard University. Horatio William Parker. 1894.
- 15.Heinrich Klingenfeld. Elaine Keillor. 2019-07-29.
- 16.Miersch, Carl Alex. Johannes. 718.
- 17.Alfred Freiherr von Mensi. Ludwig Abel. 1895-08-16.
- 18.Carl Schroeder. Handbook of violin playing.
- 19.Ernst Heim; Otto Girschner. Neuer Führer durch die Violin-Litteratur : ein zur Erleichterung für Lehrende und Lernende in Schwierigkeitsgrade eingeteiltes, mit kurzen Besprechungen versehenes Verzeichnis der gesamten Violin-Litteratur, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der für den Unterricht nützlichen Werke. 1900.
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