Fritz Schertel
{{short description|German cellist}}
Friedrich Schertel (13 February 1890 – 5 April 1945) was a German cello virtuoso.
Life
Born in Schweinfurt, Schertel was the youngest son of the bank accountant and later State bank director Sigmund Schertel and his wife Marie Schertel, née Pfeiffer. After grammar school in Hof, he studied at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
From 1909 to 1912, he studied music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. In 1913/14, he received private cello lessons from Julius Klengel in Leipzig. From 1919 to 1921, he was a cellist in Henri Marteau's String Quartet. In 1921/22, he was principal cellist with the Dresden Philharmonic. From 1922, he was a teacher at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Among his pupils were Erich Hillmann and Hans Kral. In 1933, he also became a member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig. He was repeatedly invited to join the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra (1924/25, 1927/28, 1930/31, 1933/34, 1936–1944).Alfred Sous: Das Bayreuther Festspielorchester. Geschichte, Geschichten und Anekdoten von damals bis heute. Lienau, Berlin 1997, {{ISBN|3-87484-125-1}}, {{p.|151}}.
Schertel belonged to the string quartet of Walther Davisson.Alfred Heuß, Walter Niemann: Aus dem Leipziger Musikleben. In Zeitschrift für Musik 89 (1922) 1, {{pp.|10|13}}, here {{p.|13}}. He was later a member of Hans Mlynarczyk's String Quartet (1923–1943)Jürgen Stegmüller: Das Streichquartett. Eine internationale Dokumentation zur Geschichte der Streichquartett-Ensembles und Streichquartett-Kompositionen von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (Quellenkataloge zur Musikgeschichte Vol. 40. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, {{ISBN|978-3-7959-0780-8}}, {{p.|163}}. and the {{Ill|Arthur Bohnhardt|de}}'s String Quartet (1938–1943)Jürgen Stegmüller: Das Streichquartett. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginnings to the present (Quellenkataloge zur Musikgeschichte. Vol. 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, {{ISBN|978-3-7959-0780-8}}, {{p.|77}}. and of Fritz Weitzmann's TrioKonzertpodium. In Zeitschrift für Musik 107 (1940) 1, {{p.|58}}. He also made solo appearances, bringing the Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra by Fritz Reuter to its premiere in 1929 at the {{Ill|Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG|de}} under the conduct of Alfred Szendrei.Heinz Wegener: Bibliographie Fritz Reuter. In Ders. (Red. Bearb.): Gedenkschrift Fritz Reuter (Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Gesellschafts- und sprachwissenschaftliche Reihe 15 (1966) 3). {{pp.|I|VIII}}, here p IVf.
He was also a member of the Deutscher Tonkünstlerverband.
Family
His brothers were Wilhelm Schertel (1883–1930), chemist and artist, and Ernst Schertel (1884–1958), writer and educator. A portrait sketch of the cellist made by Otto Pleß appeared in 1934 in an article on personalities of Leipzig musical life in the Zeitschrift für Musik.Hans Mlynarczyk: Leipziger Bilderbogen. In Zeitschrift für Musik 101 (1934) 2, {{p.|148|154}}, here {{p.|154}}. Schertel, a Catholic, was married to Magda Laier and the father of a son. During the {{Ill|Luftangriffe auf Bayreuth|de|3=Luftangriffe auf Bayreuth|lt=air raid on Bayreuth}} in April 1945, the family perished. Shertel was 55.
Further reading
- Hans-Rainer Jung: Das Gewandhaus-Orchester. Seine Mitglieder und seine Geschichte seit 1743.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180924504 Das Gewandhaus-Orchester seine Mitglieder und seine Geschichte seit 1743] on WorldCat Faber und Faber, Leipzig 2006, {{ISBN|3-936618-86-0}}, {{p.|226}}.
- Erich H. Müller (ed.): Deutsches Musiker-Lexikon. W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.
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