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[[File:Carl Filtsch's grave.jpg|thumb|263px|Carl Filtsch's grave at Venetian cemetery San Michele]]
'''Carl Filtsch''' (28 May 1830 – 11 May 1845) was a [[Transylvania]]n [[pianist]] and [[composer]]. He was a [[child prodigy]], and student of [[Frédéric Chopin]]. <ref name="Szulc">Szulc, Tad (1998). Chopin in Paris: the life and times of the romantic composer. Pg 301. Simon and Schuster, USA. ISBN 0-306-80933-8</ref>
'''Carl Filtsch''' (28 May 1830 – 11 May 1845) was a [[Transylvania]]n [[pianist]] and [[composer]]. He was a [[child prodigy]], and student of [[Frédéric Chopin]].<ref name="Szulc">Szulc, Tad (1998). Chopin in Paris: the life and times of the romantic composer. Pg 301. Simon and Schuster, USA. {{ISBN|0-306-80933-8}}</ref>


==Life and education==
==Life and education==
Filtsch was born in [[Sebeş|Mühlbach]] ([[Sebeş]]) in present-day [[Romania]]. His father, a prominent chess player, was his first piano teacher. Carl and his brother Joseph, also a child pianist, arrived in Paris on November 29, 1841 and immediately sought out Chopin to be Carl's teacher. Though Chopin almost never taught children, and rarely gave a student more than one lesson per week, he agreed to teach Carl, and gave him three lessons per week.
Filtsch was born in [[Sebeș|Mühlbach]] ([[Sebeș]]) in present-day [[Romania]]. His father Joseph Filtsch, a [[Lutheran]] church pastor in Mühlbach, was his first piano teacher. His first public success came at the [[Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde]] in Vienna. Carl and his brother Joseph, also a child pianist, arrived in Paris on November 29, 1841, and immediately sought out Chopin to be Carl's teacher. Though Chopin almost never taught children, and rarely gave a student more than one lesson per week, he agreed to teach Carl, and gave him three lessons per week.


Considered Chopin's most talented pupil, Filtsch received high praise from [[Franz Liszt]], [[Friedrich Wieck]], [[Giacomo Meyerbeer]], [[Ignaz Moscheles]], the music critic [[Ludwig Rellstab]], and fellow child prodigy, [[Anton Rubinstein]]. Filtsch began touring Europe on concert tours at the age of 13. After triumphant concerts in [[Paris]], [[London]], and [[Vienna]], his promising career was cut short by an early death in Venice from [[tuberculosis]] (he was infected with it by Chopin; at that time, this illness' ways of spreading were neither understood well, nor it was treatable).
Considered Chopin's most talented pupil, Filtsch received high praise from [[Franz Liszt]], [[Hector Berlioz]], [[Friedrich Wieck]], [[Giacomo Meyerbeer]], [[Ignaz Moscheles]], the music critic [[Ludwig Rellstab]], and fellow child prodigy, [[Anton Rubinstein]]. Filtsch began touring Europe on concert tours at the age of 13. After triumphant concerts in [[Paris]], [[London]], and [[Vienna]], his promising career was cut short by an early death in Venice from [[tuberculosis]]. He is buried in the Protestant section of [[San Michele Cemetery, Venice|the San Michele cemetery]].


==Quality of playing==
==Quality of playing==
According to numerous letters from Chopin and his acquaintances, Chopin considered Filtsch the most worthy interpreter of his music. A friend of Chopin's, Ferdinand Denis, reported in an article in Vienna's ''Der Humorist'' in February 1843 that on one occasion after listening to Filtsch, Chopin exclaimed, "My God! What a child! Nobody has ever understood me as this child has...It is not imitation, it is the same sentiment, an instinct that makes him play without thinking as if it could not have been any other way. He plays almost all my compositions without having heard me [play them], without being shown the smallest thing - not exactly like me [because he has his own cachet], but certainly not less well." <ref name="Szulc"/>
According to numerous letters from Chopin and his acquaintances, Chopin considered Filtsch the most worthy interpreter of his music. A friend of Chopin, Ferdinand Denis, reported in an article in Vienna's ''[[Der Humorist]]'' in February 1843 that on one occasion after listening to Filtsch, Chopin exclaimed, "My God! What a child! Nobody has ever understood me as this child has...It is not imitation, it is the same sentiment, an instinct that makes him play without thinking as if it could not have been any other way. He plays almost all my compositions without having heard me [play them], without being shown the smallest thing - not exactly like me [because he has his own cachet], but certainly not less well."<ref name="Szulc"/>

==Recordings==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160116050623/http://musikseminar.eu/cd-katalog.html Filtsch, Talberg, Liszt, Chopin: Piano music] - [[Leonhard Westermayr]] (CD MMS 2616)
* (2010) [http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.572344 Mikuli, Teffelsen, Filtsch, Gutmann: Piano music] - [[Hubert Rutkowski]] ([[Naxos Records|Naxos]] 8.572344)
* (2011) [http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.572460 Mikuli, Teffelsen, Filtsch: Violin & piano music] - [[Voytek Proniewicz]], [[Alexander Jakobidze-Gitman]] ([[Naxos Records|Naxos]] 8.572460)
* (2012) [http://www.cdaccord.com.pl/album.pl.html?acd=177 Tellefsen and Filtsch: Piano Concerto, Concert Piece, Overture] - [[Hubert Rutkowski]], [[Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra]], [[Lukasz Borowicz]] ([[Accord (Polish record label)|Accord]] 177 2)
*(2016) [http://www.kojimarokuon.com/disc/ALCD9161.html Carl Filtsch Piano Solo Pieces] - Chiyo Hagiwara (ALCD-9161)


==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.filtsch-competition.de/rules/rules.htm The Annual Filtsch Piano Competition]
* [http://www.filtsch-competition.de/rules/rules.htm The Annual Filtsch Piano Competition]
[http://www.freewebs.com/fjgajewski/]
* [http://www.freewebs.com/fjgajewski/ Konzertstueck by Carl Filtsch (1830-1845)]
* [http://imslp.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Carl_Filtsch Partial list of works]

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Latest revision as of 04:22, 20 May 2024

Carl Filtsch
Born(1830-05-28)28 May 1830
Mühlbach, Transylvania
Died11 May 1845(1845-05-11) (aged 14)
Venice, Italy
NationalityTransylvanian Saxon
Carl Filtsch's grave at Venetian cemetery San Michele

Carl Filtsch (28 May 1830 – 11 May 1845) was a Transylvanian pianist and composer. He was a child prodigy, and student of Frédéric Chopin.[1]

Life and education

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Filtsch was born in Mühlbach (Sebeș) in present-day Romania. His father Joseph Filtsch, a Lutheran church pastor in Mühlbach, was his first piano teacher. His first public success came at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. Carl and his brother Joseph, also a child pianist, arrived in Paris on November 29, 1841, and immediately sought out Chopin to be Carl's teacher. Though Chopin almost never taught children, and rarely gave a student more than one lesson per week, he agreed to teach Carl, and gave him three lessons per week.

Considered Chopin's most talented pupil, Filtsch received high praise from Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz, Friedrich Wieck, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Ignaz Moscheles, the music critic Ludwig Rellstab, and fellow child prodigy, Anton Rubinstein. Filtsch began touring Europe on concert tours at the age of 13. After triumphant concerts in Paris, London, and Vienna, his promising career was cut short by an early death in Venice from tuberculosis. He is buried in the Protestant section of the San Michele cemetery.

Quality of playing

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According to numerous letters from Chopin and his acquaintances, Chopin considered Filtsch the most worthy interpreter of his music. A friend of Chopin, Ferdinand Denis, reported in an article in Vienna's Der Humorist in February 1843 that on one occasion after listening to Filtsch, Chopin exclaimed, "My God! What a child! Nobody has ever understood me as this child has...It is not imitation, it is the same sentiment, an instinct that makes him play without thinking as if it could not have been any other way. He plays almost all my compositions without having heard me [play them], without being shown the smallest thing - not exactly like me [because he has his own cachet], but certainly not less well."[1]

Recordings

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References

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  1. ^ a b Szulc, Tad (1998). Chopin in Paris: the life and times of the romantic composer. Pg 301. Simon and Schuster, USA. ISBN 0-306-80933-8
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