FRITZ VON BOSE (CARL FRIEDRICH VON BOSE) (KÖNIGSTEIN (SAXON SWITZERLAND), OCTOBER 16, 1865 – LEIPZIG, MAY 10, 1945)
Fritz von Bose came from the Frankish line of the Saxon noble family von Bose. His father, Carl Emil von Bose (born June 21, 1832 in Chemnitz; died November 26, 1906 in Dresden) was the President of the Royal Saxon District Court in Dresden; his mother was Marie Elisabeth, née Mückenberger (born March 7, 1835 in Leipzig; – December 13, 1912 in Dresden). Fritz von Bose was married to Julia Auguste, nee Goldschmidt (August 24, 1869 in Nottingham; – March 6, 1959 in Leipzig), who was an old Jewish – Englishbelonged to family. The children of this marriage include the sons Carl (1901-1923), Heinrich (1899-1988) and Eduard von Bose (1898-1963). He received his first piano lessons from his father, Carl Emil von Bose. In 1874 the family moved to Leipzig; there Bose became a piano student of Heinrich Klesse. From 1883 von Bose studied at the then famous Leipzig Conservatory (it was the first in Germany and was founded in 1843 by Mendelssohn), among others with Carl Reinecke (whose favorite student he was considered). During a stay in Hamburg in 1887/88 he met the conductor and pianist Hans von Bülow , who gave him important impulses. Back in Leipzig in 1888, von Bose began his international career as a concert pianist and chamber music accompanist. He traveled through Germany, Austria, Hungary and Russia with the mezzo-soprano Alice Barbi . His piano playing was praised for the “clear, careful and fine drawing”, the “blooming colour, the sense for musical architecture and sculpture”. Even then, Fritz von Bose represented a “rare piano culture that preserved the best and finest of Leipzig’s classical and romantic Academy tradition” (Walter Niemann). In 1893 von Bose took over a teaching post for piano playing in Karlsruhe, and in 1898 a similar position in Leipzig. He was appointed professor there in 1912 and remained so until his retirement in 1932. He is one of the outstanding teachers at the Leipzig Conservatory (alongside Julius Rietz, Robert Teichmüller, Hermann Kretzschmar, Max Reger and Karl Straube). His catalog raisonné includes 40 works; it was compiled by Erika von Bose (1929–2017), granddaughter of the composer. During his lifetime he was referred to as “Leipziger Brahms”; a ‘Mendelssohn-esque lightness’ is typical of his compositions. His grave was in the Südfriedhof in Leipzig. Due to the end of the rest period, it was closed and cleared by the cemetery administration in October 2021. Fritz von Bose made music with Clara Schumann (1819–1896) and Joseph Joachim, as well as Julius Klengel. He met Johannes Brahms and Peter Tchaikovsky and was a.o. became friends with the conductor Josef Sautier. In 1906, on the occasion of Mozart’s 150th birthday, he played Mozart’s 10th Concerto for Two Pianos ( KV 365 , E flat major) together with the then 81-year-old Carl Reinecke in a Gewandhaus concert conducted by Arthur Nikisch; the two were enthusiastically celebrated for it.
TRACKLIST
620 WELTE-MIGNON MOSZKOWSKI – Capriccio, Op. 20, No. 3
621 WELTE-MIGNON MOZART – Adagio, K. 540, b
622 WELTE-MIGNON SCHUBERT – Impromptu, Op. 142, No. 3, Bb “Rosamunde”
623 WELTE-MIGNON SCHUBERT – Piano Sonata, Op. 78, 3rd mvt.
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