- Friedrich Koch
Friedrich Ernst Koch (
3 July 1862 –30 January 1927 ) was a Germancomposer , cellist andteacher . He was born inBerlin and studied cello with Robert Hausmann and composition withWoldemar Bargiel at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. He served as a cellist in the Royal Orchestra of Berlin between 1882 and 1891, after which he accepted a position of music director (Kapellmeister) for the resort town ofBaden-Baden . A year later, he returned to Berlin, where he concentrated on composing and teaching, eventually becoming a professor and director of theory at the Musikhochschule where he had studied.Boris Blacher andPaul Kletzki were among his many students.His compositions, which were often based on German folk melodies and written in a late Romantic style, gained him considerable recognition and acclaim. His metier was the character piece at which he excelled. Although he did not write much in the way of chamber music, these works were among his best compositions. His
string trio , op. 9, won the Mendelssohn Prize and his Wald-Idyll (Forest Idyll), Three Fantasy Pieces forpiano trio , op. 20, dating from 1902, enjoyed frequent concert performances right up until the Second World War. There is also a violin sonata in A minor (op. 47) published by C. F. Kahnt in 1925 [cite web|title=Library of Congress Record for Violin Sonata|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/unk84128223|accessdate=2008-07-08] .He composed two symphonies, in D minor "Von der Nordsee" (op. 4) [Baker, Theodore; Remy, Alfred (1919). Google books|IwcQAAAAYAAJ|Baker's Biographical Dictionary, 3rd edition. Schirmer. page 473. OCLC|19940414.] and G (op. 10, published 1891) [Rosenkranz, A. (1902). Google books|ZJ9UAAAAMAAJ|Novello's catalogue of orchestral music: a manual of the orchestral literature of all countries, New York: Novello, Ewer & Co., page 55. OCLC|13278734.] [cite web|title=Page with Multiple-Part Downloadable PDF of Koch's Second Symphony at Sibley Research|url=http://hdl.handle.net/1802/2217|accessdate=2008-07-08|publisher=Berlin: Bote & Bock|date=1891] .
References
*The New Grove Dictionary of Music, Ed. Stanley Sadie, Macmillan, London, 1980.
*Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music, Oxford University Press, London, 1963.External links
* [http://www.editionsilvertrust.com/koch-fantasies-pieces-op20.htm Friedrich Koch Wald-Idyll for Piano Trio, Op.20 sound-bites and discussion of work]
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