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{{short description|German violinist}}
[[File:ArnoHilf.jpg|thumb|{{center|Arno Hilf, circa 1900}}]]
'''Franz Arno Hilf''' (14 March 1858 – 2 August 1909) was a German violin [[virtuoso]]. Among others, he was [[Konzertmeister]] of the [[Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra]] and primarius of the [[Gewandhaus Quartet]].
== Life ==
Hilf came from a family of musicians. He was born in 1858 as the son of a musician in [[Bad Elster]]. His brother Robert Hilf (1859-1911), his uncles Christian Adam Arno Hilf and Christoph Wolfgang Hilf and his cousins Oskar Korndörfer and Ernst Korndörfer were also musicians and all played in the Gewandhaus Orchestra.
He received violin lessons from his uncle Christian Adam Arno Hilf and piano lessons from his father. At [[Leipzig Conservatory]] he studied from 1872 to 1876 with [[Ferdinand David (musician)|Ferdinand David]], [[Engelbert Röntgen]] and [[Henry Schradieck]].
From 1878 to 1888 he was second concertmaster at the [[Bolshoi Theater]] and teacher at the [[Moscow Conservatory]]. From 1878 to 1885 he was second violinist in the quartet of the Russian Music Society<ref>Jürgen Stegmüller: ''Das Streichquartett. Eine internationale Dokumentation zur Geschichte der Streichquartett-Ensembles und Streichquartett-Kompositionen von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart'' (''Quellenkataloge zur Musikgeschichte''. Vol 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, {{ISBN|978-3-7959-0780-8}}, {{p.|185}}.</ref> and from 1880 until 1915 in the Hřímalý Quartett in Moscow.<ref>Jürgen Stegmüller: ''Das Streichquartett. Eine internationale Dokumentation zur Geschichte der Streichquartett-Ensembles und Streichquartett-Kompositionen von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart'' (''Quellenkataloge zur Musikgeschichte''. Vol. 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, {{ISBN|978-3-7959-0780-8}}, {{p.|128}}.</ref> (''Quellenkataloge zur Musikgeschichte''. Vol. 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, {{ISBN|978-3-7959-0780-8}}, {{p.|128}}.
He then returned to Germany and became concertmaster of the [[Loh-Orchester Sondershausen]] in [[Sondershausen]] and teacher at the local conservatory. From 1889 to 1891 he was concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and at the same time Primarius<ref>Jürgen Stegmüller: ''Das Streichquartett. Eine internationale Dokumentation zur Geschichte der Streichquartett-Ensembles und Streichquartett-Kompositionen von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart''</ref> (''Quellenkataloge zur Musikgeschichte''. Vol. 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, {{ISBN|978-3-7959-0780-8}}, {{p.|113}} of the Gewandhaus Quartet. He was also first violin teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1892.
Among his students were Walter Bach, [[Clemens Meyer (musician)|Clemens Meyer]], [[Gabriel del Orbe]], [[Heinrich Schachtebeck]], Gustav Schmidt and [[Hans Stieber]].
== Literature ==
* Alberto Bachmann: ''An Encyclopedia of the Violin''.<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/868279919 ''An Encyclopedia of the Violin''] on WorldCat</ref> Dover Publications, Mineola 2008, {{ISBN|978-0-486-46618-7}}, {{p.|364}}.
* [[Albin Buchholz]], Marion Schulz: ''Arno Hilf – Violinvirtuose, Lehrer, Komponist''.<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1043853984 ''Arno Hilf - 1858-1909 - Violinvirtuose, Lehrer, Komponist : eine Dokumentation anlässlich der 160. Wiederkehr seines Geburtstages''] on WorldCat</ref>  (''Schriften des Neuberin-Museums''. 38). Neuberin-Museum Reichenbach, Reichenbach im Vogtland 2018, {{ISBN|978-3-932626-38-8}}.
* Hans-Rainer Jung, [[Claudius Böhm]]: ''Das Gewandhaus-Orchester. Seine Mitglieder und seine Geschichte seit 1743.''<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/494094148 ''Das Gewandhaus-Orchester. Seine Mitglieder und seine Geschichte seit 1743.''] on WorldCat</ref> [[Faber and Faber]], Leipzig 2006, {{ISBN|3-936618-86-0}}, {{p.|167}}.
* {{Meyers-1905|9|330|330|spezialkapitel=Hilf}}
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== External links ==
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