Not much anywhere.....Someone needs to go to Russia
and do some indepth work....
Victor Ewald was born in St. Petersburg in 1860 and
died there in 1935. He studied engineering and from
1895 to 1915 was a professor at the Institute of Civil
Engineering.
Ewald played cello and horn and took part in chamber
music evenings with the publisher Belaieff. (Belaieff
was renowned for publishing music exclusively by
Russian composers in his Belaieff Edition and
promoting concerts of Russian music. He also provided
funds for prizes for composition and used Lyadov,
Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov as jurists).
After the Revolution Ewald continued to work as an
engineer and instructor and also took part in
expeditions to the north of European Russia collecting
folksongs. After his death his daughter Zinaida, with
her husband Evgeny Grippius, published a number of
collections of Russian folksongs.
Written in 1910, the Symphony for Brass is one of
three pieces for brass quintet written by Ewald and
would have originally been scored for 2 cornets, Eb
horn, baritone / euphonium and bass. With its lovely
folk influenced melodies it makes a significant
contribution to the brass quintet repertoire.
Russian-born Victor Ewald (1860-1935) was not a
musician by trade, but an engineer and teacher who had
music as his avocation. In the Russia of the 19th
Century, many musicians, including the greatest, were
"amateurs," having another profession in addition to
their art. A cellist and hornist, Ewald wrote several
brass quintets for the conical brasses common in his
day. Ewald played the cello with the Belayev String
Quartet, named after a famous editor in St.
Petersburg. Belayev published this Symphony for Brass
in 1912.
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