A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers. 1.09
Joachim remained in Leipzig until October 1850, at a time when Mendelssohn and Schumann were at the zenith of their fame; he received great encouragement from the former, as also from David, his master, with whom he occasionally played at the Gewandhaus concerts with increasing success. His next visit to England was in 1847 and again in 1849, then successively in 1852, 1858, 1859, and -1862, since which time his visit to London has been an annual event. In 1849 he was leader of the band at Weimar, where Liszt was conducting operas and concerts. Joachim, however, did not long occupy this post ; his views of music being diametrically opposed to those of the great pianist, and he accordingly quitted Weimar in 1854, and accepted the post of conductor of concerts, and solo violinist, at the Court of Hanover. In 1863, during his stay at Hanover, he married Amalie Weiss, a notable contralto singer, who had made a name as an interpreter of Schumann's songs. In 1868, the two artists went to Berlin, and Joachim was appointed head of the Hochschule fur Ausubende Tonknnst (High School for Musical Execution), which, under his rule, soon rose to a high position as a teaching institution. In 1877 the University of Cambridge bestowed upon him
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