Rosy Wertheim - Violin Sonata in A flat major
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
- - Composer: Rosalie Marie Wertheim (19 February 1888 -- 27 May 1949)
- Performers: Ursula Schoch (violin), Marcel Worms (piano)
- Year of recording: 2009-2010
Sonata for Violin & Piano in A flat major, written in 1931.
00:00 - I. Allegro con brio
05:02 - II. Andante non troppo lento
09:23 - III. Allegro con moto
Rosy Wertheim was a Jewish Dutch pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in Amsterdam to parents John and Adriana Rosa Gustaaf Wertheim Enthoven. Her father was a banker and Rosalie attended a French boarding school in Neuilly where she took piano lessons. She studied piano with Ulfert Schults and harmony and counterpoint with Bernard Zweers and Sem Dresden. In 1921 she took the state exam in piano and graduated from the Nederlandse Toonkunstenaars Vereniging. From 1921 to 1929, she taught at the Amsterdam Music Lyceum, composed songs and choral works and conducted children's and women's choirs.
In 1929 Wertheim moved to Paris where she lived for six years, composing music [and probably this Violin Sonata], and writing for the Amsterdam newspaper Het Volk [The People] on the Parisian music scene, while studying composition and instrumentation from the composer Louis Aubert.
In 1935 she moved to Vienna where she studied counterpoint with Karl Weigl. In 1936 she traveled to New York to give lectures and arrange performance of her works. In 1937, just prior to the start of World War II, she returned to Amsterdam. During the German Occupation, Wertheim gave secret concerts in a cellar where she played music by banned Jewish composers. After September 1942, she went into hiding to escape the Jewish deportations. After the war, Rosy Wertheim taught at the Music School in Laren, but contracted a serious illness and died 27 May 1949 in Laren, the Netherlands.
Dutch flutist Eleonore Pameijer writes about her music: "Rosy Wertheim wrote very lyrical music. She was gifted with a rich and varied sense of harmony. Initially focused on late-romanticism, she flirts with octatonicism for some time, which was quite popular during the 1920's in The Netherlands (which also can be heard in the compositions of Sem Dresden and Leo Smit). In her later works it is clear that the period in France had a big impact on her composing."
Wertheim's compositions show influences of Franck, Debussy, Ravel, Pijper and Stravinsky, and in this particular violin sonata the French influences are very noticeable. - Hudba
Beautiful. A very polished and interesting harmonic language. I can hear echoes of Delius, French composers and a little bit of Hindemith. This composer needs to be more widely known and this piece more widely known among violin recitalists.
All in all solid technique and a very natural, lyricism but punch where its needed.
yeah this should be standard rep FOR SURE
Absolutely stunning, eloquent and gorgeous. The first two movements have a completely different sound than the third and I agree about the french reference although I think closer to Faure and Lekeu than Debussy or Ravel, high praise considering the two former made my top five all time violin sonatas, top four even. The harmony is robust but does not smother you and a very lyrical sence of melody that I find to be rare with modern violin compositions. When I think of Fritz Kreisler I think how he was attracted to music with pure melody and the desire to speak with every note, I don't know if he ever played this but it sounds like the kind of material he would have been attracted to. The third movement is a definite shift not only in harmony but also rhythmically, I almost want to say kind of a scherzo type feel, kind of choppy and not nearly as smooth as the first two movements, reminiscent of yes Stravinsky or perhaps Janacek violin sonatas in terms of the rythm with a sprinkle of Ravel and Debussy style harmonies. Very enjoyable during both listens, I'm in love with this one and as a real repertoire junky of violin music and hearing it for the first time and never even heard of the composer, I'd say this one is quite a find.
+scottbos68 I'm really happy you like this Scott, you being an expert on violin music. I'm afraid Wertheim was a little too obscure to gain attention of great performers like Kreisler though...
Well thanks but I do not consider myself an expert, more like an addict or a junky, I have a dependency problem lol
Glad you like this! If you want to read more about Rosy Wertheim and listen to more unknown violin sonatas from the early twentieth century, visit www.forbiddenmusicregained.org. You'll find a short biography of Wertheim and almost 40 other composers from the Netherlands and a database with all their compositions.
Sounds like Hindemith or Piston, very good!
2set brought me here
120 likes no dislikes
everyone likes this
Now it's 4 dislikes, some people are so audacious
not a bad piece at all. Ive played worse by substantially more famous composers!