1. Alwin Georg Kulenkampff-Post was a German virtuoso violinist.
15 Facts About Georg Kulenkampff
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Georg Kulenkampff gave the premiere performance of Robert Schumann's violin concerto 84 years after it was written and made the first recording of the piece.
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Georg Kulenkampff was the son of a well-to-do merchant family in Bremen.
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Georg Kulenkampff took an interest in the violin from a very young age, and from 1904 began to receive instruction from the concertmaster of the Bremer Philharmoniker, and afterwards with its conductor Ernst Wendel.
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Georg Kulenkampff then received lessons and encouragement from Leopold Auer in Dresden, and made a concert debut in 1912 as solo violinist.
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Georg Kulenkampff's health was fragile from early life, and towards the end of the First World War he returned to his home town to become concertmaster of the Bremen Philharmonic.
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Georg Kulenkampff made rapid progress, especially as a soloist, and in 1923 became professor-in-ordinary at the Berlin Music Hochschule.
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Georg Kulenkampff taught there until 1926, when his solo career became all-absorbing, but resumed teaching there in 1931 until his departure from Germany in 1944.
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Georg Kulenkampff played in piano duos, especially with Georg Solti and Wilhelm Kempff: with Solti he recorded the Brahms sonatas, Mozart's 20th sonata and Beethoven's Kreutzer sonata for Decca, and there is a Kreutzer with Kempff.
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Georg Kulenkampff's recording of the Brahms Double Concerto with Mainardi, under the baton of Carl Schuricht, is notable as well.
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The addition of this work to the repertoire was important, and soon afterwards Georg Kulenkampff made the world premiere recording.
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Georg Kulenkampff gave various other world premieres, notable of works by Ottorino Respighi and by Jean Sibelius.
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Georg Kulenkampff was first violin of the Kulenkampff Quartet from 1944, and among his students was the Italian-American Ruggiero Ricci from San Francisco.
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Georg Kulenkampff died in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, of encephalitis at age 50, suffering a rapid onset soon after his last concert.
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Georg Kulenkampff's memoirs appeared posthumously in 1952, entitled Geigerische Betrachtungen.