Anna Hirzel-Langenhan
Anna Hirzel-Langenhan (born August 20, 1874 in Lachen SZ ; † December 15, 1951 at Berg Castle ) was a Swiss pianist and piano teacher .
Life
Anna Hirzel-Langenhan studied at the Zurich Conservatory and in Vienna with Theodor Leschetizky and Anna Jessipowa . From 1898 she worked in Munich after she had settled there with her husband Richard Langenhan, who had received a position as second conductor of the Kaimorchester (alongside Felix Weingartner ). Both made their debut in Kaimkonzert on 5 October 1898 and the first piano concerto by Tchaikovsky . In addition to her work as a soloist, she often performed with members of the Kaimorchester in chamber music evenings and achieved a respected position in Munich's musical life. Therefore, when her husband unexpectedly died in March 1900, she continued to stay there and increasingly began to give piano lessons. During her intensive teaching activity, she supervised an international group of students, including Edith Picht-Axenfeld , Hermann Abendroth , Erich Doflein , Werner Egk , Hans Leygraf and Maria Landes . A high point in her concert activity was the performance of all Beethoven's violin sonatas with Eugène Ysaÿe in March 1903. In 1911 she almost completely stopped her concert activities because of severe gout.
From 1926 Anna Hirzel-Langenhan lived in Lugano and from 1934 at Schloss Berg in the Swiss canton of Thurgau , where she a. a. taught the later famous pianist André Casanova . Your estate is kept in the Basel University Library.
Works
- Grasping and grasping. A way to create a culture of attack. Ed .: Pina Pozzi and Franzpeter Goebels . With a foreword by Renata Borgatti. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel / Basel / Paris / London / New York 1963
- Grasping and grasping. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel [u. a.] 2008 (10th edition), ISMN 979-0-006-43990-4 (search in the DNB portal)
Web links
- Works by and about Anna Hirzel-Langenhan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Anna Hirzel-Langenhan's estate in the Basel University Library
- Lexicon article by the Sophie Drinker Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Doflein in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- ↑ Werner Egk ( Memento from December 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Hugo Riemann Musik-Lexikon, B. Schott's Sons, Person Part (A – K), page 803
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hirzel-Langenhan, Anna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss pianist and piano teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lachen SZ , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1951 |
| Place of death | Berg Castle , Switzerland |