Jakob Rosenhain (Jacob, Jacques) (2 December 1813 – 21 March 1894) was a German Jewish pianist and composer.
Rosenhain was born in Mannheim;[1] he made his debut at the age of 11.[2] During their 1837 season, he was a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (on 17 April), which in 1854 (also in April) programmed one of his symphonies.[3][4]
He was a friend of Felix Mendelssohn at least from 1839.[3] He worked with Johann Baptist Cramer on a published school of piano-playing. From 1849 he made his home in Paris.[5]
Sonata in D minor for cello (or violin, or viola) and piano, Op. 98.[14] (manuscript for viola, noted in RISM Online and dates from 1893)
Four Piano Trios[15]
Songs
at least two dozen[16]
References
^Meyers Konversationslexikon (Leipzig, 1889), vol. 13, p. 190.
^ a bObituary Musical Times at Google Books, 21 April 1894, p. 378.
^ a b cMusical Times at Google Books, vol. 40, 1899 (1 August 1899 issue), pp. 530-1. Discusses letters between Rosenhain and Mendelssohn from August 1839.
^List of works performed by the Philharmonic Society.
^See Pratt, Mendel (1907)
^ a b cSee Brown (1886).
^Library of Congress Permalink for Second Symphony, Sommermeyer Edition. Emil Sommermeyer [n.d.;]. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
^"Library of Congress Permalink for Piano Concerto, Breitkopf & Härtel Edition". Retrieved 2009-01-17.
^"1890-2 Crystal Palace Sunday Concerts, Including First English Performance of Rosenhain Piano Concerto". Retrieved 2009-01-28.
^"Piano Quartets Page" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2009-01-19.
^at IMSLP.
^Scanned in at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Site, in References. Op. 41 is mentioned in HMB as another work entirely from 1845, and Op. 44 in F minor seems to be Rosenhain's first sonata - so this may be a typo or misreading on someone's part (it seemed to be Op. 41, but now am assuming this should be Op. 44).
^Publication of all 3 quartets by Richault mentioned, together with dedicatees (Rossini, Vieuxtemps, Jean Becker), in the Bibliographie de la France, 2e série, 53e année, nº 48, 26 Novembre 1864, p. 562, registration 2854.
^HMB gives a cello sonata here and RISM Online gives a manuscript D minor viola sonata from 1893, but these may be the same work
^Hubbard, p. 235.
^See the Ezust Lied and Art Song Texts Page, in References.
Bibliography
Singer, Isidore; Sohn, Joseph. "Article on Rosenhain from The Jewish Encyclopedia". Retrieved 2009-01-19.
Brown, James Duff (1886). Biographical Dictionary of Musicians: With a Bibliography of English Writings on Music at Google Books. A. Gardner. page 522.
Hubbard, W. L. (William Lines) (1910/2005 reprint) The American History and Encyclopedia of Music: Musical Biographies Part Two at Google Books. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 1-4179-0713-4.
May, Florence (1905). The Life of Johannes Brahms at Google Books. E. Arnold. Pages 28–9.