Alwin Wieck

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Friedrich Alwin Feodor Wieck (born August 27, 1821 in Leipzig , † October 21, 1885 in Dresden ) was a German violinist and piano teacher and a brother of Clara Schumann .

Life

Alwin Wieck was a son of Friedrich Wieck from his first marriage to the singer and pianist Mariane Tromlitz . His sister Clara gave him piano lessons from 1831 when she was twelve years old. On July 22, 1831, Robert Schumann also noted a meeting with "Allwin" for the first time.

He studied with his father ( piano ) and with Ferdinand David ( violin ) and went to Reval in 1843 . From 1849 to 1859 he was a member of the Italian Opera Orchestra in St. Petersburg , where he married Paulina Henrika Elisabeth Stein (born October 7, 1830). In 1861 he returned to Germany and lived as a music teacher in Dresden until his death.

After the divorce of his first marriage, he married an unknown Emma in his second marriage, who died early. In his third marriage from 1872 he was married to Therese Lucilie Hartmann from Coburg , who survived him.

Most recently he lived in the English Quarter of Dresden at Lüttichaustraße 16, today's Hans-Dankner-Straße, where he died at the age of 64. He was buried in the Trinity cemetery in the family grave that is still preserved today.

After his death, Clara Schumann wrote to her friend Rosalie Leser: “If only I could have seen him again! My last letter that I wrote him made him so happy. Even if we seldom saw each other, he was very attached to me. […] What saddens me deeply is that Alwin has been grieving so terribly in the last few months because in the papers on the occasion of the 100th birthday of my father's was not mentioned at all, because he used the method with tireless diligence and the best results of the father has tried to spread. "

Works

  • Concertante dances for violin and piano , Leipzig: Whistling 1843
  • Impromptu for piano op.4, St. Petersburg: Frackmann 1861

Fonts

  • Materials on Friedrich Wieck's Pianoforte-Methodik , Berlin: Simrock 1875 ( digitalisat )
  • Vademecum perpetuum for the first piano lesson according to Friedrich Wieck's method together with a memorial sheet by Amely Boelte , Leipzig: Siegel [1880]

literature

  • Iwan Knorr , Alwin Wieck (obituary) , in: Signals for the musical world , November 3, 1885
  • Cathleen Köckritz, "He was my last right brother, [...] a loyal propagator and worker for our father's method." - Alwin Wieck , in: Schumann and Dresden , ed. by Thomas Synofzik and Hans-Günter Ottenberg , Cologne 2010, pp. 219–232
  • Eberhard Möller (ed.), Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with the Wieck family , Cologne: Dohr 2011 (= Schumann Briefedition , Series I, Volume 2), pp. 341–365; ISBN 978-3-86846-046-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Schumann, Diaries , Volume 1, ed. by Georg Eismann , Leipzig 1971, p. 355
  2. ↑ Address and business handbook of the royal residence and capital Dresden , 1885, part 1, p. 492 ( digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Wieck, Alwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wieck, Friedrich Alwin Feodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1885
Place of death Dresden