Charles martin loeffler biography
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There will not be another like him; no one in America has approached him for individuality of style, perfection of craftsmanship, beauty of utterance, loftiness and subtlety of thought.
—Lawrence Gilman
It was in the mid-to-late 19th century that America first achieved lasting distinction in classical music. Lacking a deeply rooted tradition, she naturally drew both influence and manpower from Europe, including performers, teachers, conductors (many of whom were German emigres), and composers. A good example is the fascinating though largely forgotten figure of Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935), composer, violinist, and aesthete who adorned the cultural life of Boston for half a century. Incredible as it may seem today, Loeffler was once considered the foremost composer in America and one of the leading composers in the Western world. Yet he never consciously strove to be an “American” composer and indeed was not born here.
A cloud of mystery surrounded many aspects of Loeffler’s life including his origins. He consistently claimed to be from the Alsace, and critics were fond of noting the “Alsatian temperament” of his music. However, research has revealed that he was German, born near Berlin as Martin Karl Löffler. Loeffler’s father had become the victim of a
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Charles Martin Loeffler
American violinist and composer (1861–1935)
Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler (January 30, 1861 – May 19, 1935) was a German-born American violinist and composer.
Family background
[edit]Charles Martin Loeffler was born Martin Karl Löffler on January 30, 1861, in Schöneberg near Berlin to parents who were both from Berlin families.[1] The family moved repeatedly, first to Alsace, and then to Smila, 200 km from Kyiv, while Loeffler was still a small child, next to Debrecen, in Hungary, where his father Karl taught at the Royal Academy of Agriculture.[2] Later he lived in Switzerland.
Karl was an agricultural chemist who espoused republican ideals in writing as a journalist under the name "Tornow" or "Tornov". When his son was about twelve years old, Prussian authorities arrested Karl Loeffler and he died of a stroke in prison. Throughout his career, Charles Martin Loeffler claimed to have been born in Mulhouse, Alsace; in his lifetime, articles were published dissecting his "typically Alsatian" temperament. He sometimes used his father's pseudonyms as one of his middle names.
Career
[edit]Loeffler decided to become a violinist and studied in Berlin with Joseph Joachim, Friedrich Kiel and Woldemar Bargiel, then with