Joachim, Joseph
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Image source
Wikimedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Joachim_(photo_by_Reutlinger).jpg
Basic data
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June 28, 1831 in Kittsee bei Preßburg
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†August 15, 1907 in Berlin
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Violinist, Dirigent, Komponist
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Berlin, Hannover, Weimar
Iconography
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.jpg "Joachim's birth house in Kittsee (Source: Wikimedia)")
.jpg "Joachim's birth house in Kittsee today (Source: Wikimedia)")
.jpg "Memorial plaque on his birth house (Source: Wikimedia)")
.jpg "Joseph Joachim (Source: Wikimedia)")
.jpg "Joachim and Clara Schumann (1854), drawing by Adolph Menzel (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Joachim and the young Franz von Vecsey. Note the strongly incurving, arthritic first finger of his left hand. The chair in which he is sitting was a special present to him. He willed it to Donald Tovey, and it is now owned by the University of Edinburgh Museum.[77] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JJVecseyPS.jpg "Joachim and the young Franz von Vecsey. Note the strongly incurving, arthritic first finger of his left hand. The chair in which he is sitting was a special present to him. He willed it to Donald Tovey, and it is now owned by the University of Edinburgh Museum.[77] (Source: Wikimedia)")
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Biographical information from the WeGA
- Sohn des Wollhändlers Julius Joachim (ca. 1791–1865) und dessen Frau Fanny, geb. Figdor (ca. 1791–1867)
- trat bereits in jungen Jahren als Wunderkind auf
- studierte bei Georg Hellmesberger und Joseph Böhm in Wien, ab 1843 bei Ferdinand David in Leipzig
- wurde 1849 von Liszt als Konzertmeister nach Weimar berufen
- 1853–1864 Königlicher Konzertmeister in Hannover
- seit 1868 Direktor der Königlichen Musikhochschule in Berlin und Senatsmitglied der Akademie der Künste
- gehörte zum engsten Freundeskreis um Robert und Clara Schumann
