Erling Bloch – The Pioneering Danish Chamber Musician

Name: Erling Bloch - The Pioneering Danish Chamber Musician
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Erling Bloch
He was born into a home where artistic matters held pride of place. His father was a painter and at the same time extremely interested in music, therefore a musical education was a wholly natural thing for the young Erling. Already at the age of seven he received violin tuition and was made familiar with chamber music through the cellist Emil Robert Hansen, the brother of the pianist Agnes Adler, whose piano trio was to be of great significance for him. He entered the conservatoire at the age of fifteen where already in 1922 he gave his début concert, and only one year later became a member of The Royal Danish Orchestra. Here he was active until 1954, when teaching steadily began to take up more of his time. He had taught at the conservatoire since 1946 and became a professor there in 1949. Here he was held in affection and admired by his pupils, and was musically a central
force at the conservatoire until he had to retire at the age of seventy. After his retirement he continued as an examiner. I met him repeatedly for many years at The Royal Academy of Music where I was a member of the staff. He was always friendly, attentive and witty, in short, a person whom we always looked forward to meeting.

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Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130
1. I. Adagio man non troppo – Adagio
2. II. Presto
3. III. Andante con moto, ma non troppo
4. IV. Alla danza tedesca
5. V. Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo
6. VI. Finale, Allegro
rec. Aug. 1952

Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major Op. 30 No. 3
7. I. Allegro assai
8. II. Tempo di menuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso
9. III. Allegro vivace
rec. May 1943

Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major Op. 47 ”Kreutzer”
10. I. Adagio sostenuto – Presto
11. II. Andante con variazioni
12. III. Finale. Presto
rec. Sept.1942

Chamber Music in Denmark at the beginning of the 20th century ©
There is only a small handful of gramophone records of chamber music played by Danish musicians
before the war.
On the initiative of Erling Bloch something at last happened. The Bloch Quartet saw the light of day in 1933 with
Erling Bloch, violin, Knud Pedersen, violin, Hans Kassow, viola and Torben Anton Svendsen, cello, once again,
all colleagues from The Royal Danish Orchestra.
In 1935 The Danish Quartet came into existence. It consisted of Holger Gilbert Jespersen, flute, and again Erling
Bloch, Torben Anton Svendsen and Holger Lund Christiansen, professor at the Conservatoire, piano. The two
ensembles quickly achieved popularity and were to become the true guardians of the chamber music tradition in
Denmark for many years. As far as Bloch was concerned there were also many performances of sonatas with
Holger Lund Christiansen.

RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 2025

CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 1001

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