Robert Volkmann
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2 Chorgesänge für gemischte Stimmen, Op.752 Geistliche Lieder, Op.702 Lieder für Männerstimmen, Op.582 Lieder für Mezzo Sopran, Cello und Piano, Op.563 Gedichte, Op.133 Geistliche Gesänge, Op.383 Hochzeitslieder, Op.713 Lieder für Männerchor, Op.483 Lieder, Op.163 Lieder, Op.323 Lieder, Op.523 Marches for piano 4-hands, Op.404 Marches, Op.226 Lieder, Op.306 Phantasiebilder, Op.1A
Allegretto capriccioso, Op.15Altdeutscher Hymnus, Op.64An die Nacht, Op.45B
Ballade and Scherzetto, Op.51Buch der Lieder, Op.17C
Capriccio for Cello and Piano, Op.74Cavatine and Barcarole, Op.19Cello Concerto, Op.33Chant du troubadour, Op.10D
Deutsche Tanzweisen, Op.18Die Bekehrte, Op.54Die Tageszeiten, Op.39Dithyrambe und Toccate, Op.4F
Fantasie, Op.25aFest-Ouvertüre für grosses Orchester, Op.50I
Intermezzo, Op.25bK
Kirchenarie 'Suscepimus Deus', Op.65Konzertstück, Op.42L
Lieder der Großmutter, Op.27M
Mass No.1, Op.28Mass No.2, Op.29Musikalisches Bilderbuch, Op.11N
Nocturne, Op.8O
Offertorium "Osanna Domino Deo", Op.47Overture in C minorOverture to Shakespeare's Richard III, Op.68P
Piano Sonata, Op.12Piano Trio No.1, Op.3Piano Trio No.2, Op.5R
Rhapsodie, Op.31RheinweinliedRögtönzések, Op.36Romanze, Op.7Rondino und Marsch-Caprice, Op.55S
Sappho, Op.49Schlummerlied, Op.76Serenade No.1, Op.62Serenade No.2, Op.63Serenade No.3, Op.69Sonatina, Op.57Souvenir de Maroth, Op.6String Quartet No.1, Op.9String Quartet No.2, Op.14String Quartet No.3, Op.34String Quartet No.4, Op.35String Quartet No.5, Op.37String Quartet No.6, Op.43Symphony No.1, Op.44Symphony No.2, Op.53Széchenyi sirjánál, Op.41U
Ungarische Lieder, Op.20Ungarische Skizzen, Op.24V
Variationen über ein Thema von Handel, Op.26Violin Sonatina No.1, Op.60Violin Sonatina No.2, Op.61Visegrád, Op.21W
Wanderskizzen, Op.23Weihnachtslied aus dem 12. Jahrhundert, Op.59WikipediaFriedrich Robert Volkmann, (Hungarian: Volkmann Róbert), (6 April 1815, Lommatzsch bei Meißen – 30 October 1883, Budapest) was a German composer.
Robert Volkmann was born in Lommatzsch, Saxony, Germany. His father, a music director for a church, trained him in music to prepare him as a successor. Thus Volkmann learned to play the organ and the piano with his father, studied violin and cello with Friebel, and by age 12 he was playing the cello part in string quartets by
Haydn,
Mozart and
Beethoven. In 1832 he entered the Freiberg Gymnasium for the purpose of becoming a teacher. There he studied music with
August Ferdinand Anacker, who encouraged him to devote himself to music more fully. From there he went on to Leipzig in 1836 to study with
Carl Ferdinand Becker. In Leipzig he met
Robert Schumann, who encouraged him in his studies. They met again several times after that.
When he finished his studies, he began working as voice teacher at a music school in Prague. He did not stay there long, and in 1841 he moved to Budapest, where he was employed as a piano teacher and a reporter for the Allgemeine Wiener Musik-Zeitung.
After a short period of freelance work, he became the choirmaster and organist of a Reform synagogue in 1848. He composed in virtual obscurity until 1852, when his Piano Trio in B-flat minor caught the ears of
Franz Liszt and
Hans von Bülow, who proceeded to play it several times all over Europe. In 1854 Volkmann moved to Vienna, only to return to Budapest in 1858.
Thanks to the publisher Gustav Heckenast, who in 1857 bought the rights to publish all Volkmann's works in exchange for regular income regardless of sales, Volkmann was able to fully dedicate himself to composition, until Heckenast closed down his Budapest publishing house in the early 1870s.
While visiting Vienna in 1864, Volkmann became acquainted with
Johannes Brahms, and they became close friends. In letters they addressed each other as "lieber Freund" ("dear friend").
From the 1870s Volkmann slowed down and composed very little. From 1875 until his death, he was professor of harmony and counterpoint at Budapest's National Academy of Music, where Liszt was the director. Volkmann died in Budapest on 30 October 1883.