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J. Hollman

Maastricht, Netherlands, 1852 - 1927, Paris

Biographycorresponded in 1893 in French with ISG
I.S. 12/19/2017

Sources
found: His Six morceaux pour le violoncello, c1892: t.p. (J. Hollman)
found: Saint-Saëns, C. Le cygne [SR] 191-?: label (Josef Hollman, violoncello)
found: Hervey, A. Once, 191-?: cover (Jos. Hollman)
found: Baker, 8th ed. (Hollmann, Joseph; b. 10/16/1852, Maastricht; d. 1/1/27, Paris; Dutch cellist)
found: Algemene muz. enc. (Hollman, (Joseph) Corneille Hubert; b. 10/10/1852, Maastricht; d. 12/31/26, Paris)
found: Pazdírek (Hollman, J.)

Joseph Corneille Hubert Hollman ( Maastricht , 16 October 1852 - Paris , 31 December 1926 ) was a Dutch cellist and composer .

Biography [ edit ]
Training [ edit ]
Joseph Hollman was born in the Spilstraat in Maastricht as the son of the merchant Karel Lodewijk Hubert Hollman and his wife Maria Elisabeth Hubertina Theodora Rutten. He had great musical abilities at a young age. His first cello teacher was André Keller. At the age of 14 he was admitted to the Conservatory of Brussels , where he was briefly taught by the famous cellist Adrien François Servais and later by Isidore Deswert. In addition, he took composition lessons with François-Joseph Fétis and Charles Bosselet. In 1870 Hollman closed his Brussels conservatory education at the age of 18 with a first prize. Then he continued his cello studies in Pariswith Léon Jean Jacquard and in Saint Petersburg with Karl Davidoff.

Career [ edit ]
His first public concert took place in 1875 in Paris. This was followed by successful concerts throughout Europe and America. In the 1880s Hollman was for some time solo cellist of the Meiniger Hofkapelle , at that time a renowned orchestra under the direction of Hans von Bülow . In 1887 he returned to Paris, where he met Jules Massenet , Edouard Lalo , Eugène Ysaÿe and Camille Saint-Saëns, among others . From 1916 until his death, Paris was his permanent residence.

Tribute [ edit ]
The Dutch king Willem III appointed Hollman court musician with the honorary title of 'royal violon cellist'. Hollman also taught the son of the Japanese emperor for some time . Different compositions have been dedicated to him. For example, in 1902 Camille Saint-Saëns commissioned his second cello concerto in small, Opus 119, with Hollman, and in 1910 La Muse et le poète for violin, cello and orchestra, opus 132, together with Hollman and Ysaÿe. Joseph Hollman himself also composed, but thus had less success.

Hollman received several (international) awards and titles, including officer in the Order of the Oak Crown (Netherlands), knight of the Legion of Honor (France), knight in the House Order of the Wendische Kroon ( Mecklenburg-Strelitz ) and officer in the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan).

Joseph Hollman died in Paris in 1926, but was buried in great homage at the Tongerseweg General Cemetery in his hometown of Maastricht . [1] In the same year, a commemorative plaque was placed on his birth house (Spilstraat 4). The Bonnefantenmuseum has a painted portrait of him; there is a portrait bust in the city ??hall of Maastricht . A street has been named after him in the Maastricht district of Brusselsepoort .

Van Hollman has preserved several recordings of recordings , including Le Cygne by Saint-Saëns and the Gavotte no. 2 by David Popper . [2]

Compositions [ edit ]
Pièces. Pour violoncelle et piano. No. 1: Romance . Paris, 1884.
Pièces. Pour violoncelle et piano. No. 3: Reverie . Paris, 1884.
Carmenfantasie , ca 1885.
Chanson d'amour . Brussels, 1886 (dedicated to Christine Nilsson ).
Six morceaux. Pour le violoncelle avec accompagnement the piano . London, 1892.
Deuxième mazurka. Pour le violoncelle avec accompagnement the piano . London, New York, 1894 (dedicated to Queen Wilhelmina ).
Souvenir de Berck. False. Pour violoncelle et piano . Paris, 1910 (dedicated to Ch. Dequeker).
Quand vous me montrez une rose. Romance. Pour chant and piano avec accompagnement the violoncelle obligato . Paris, 1910 (dedicated to J. Piédallu).
Two (or three?) Cello concerts . [3]
Suite for cello and orchestra.

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