Anna Morsch
Anna Morsch (born July 3, 1841 in Gransee near Berlin ; † May 12, 1916 in Wiesbaden ) was a German music teacher and writer.
Life
Anna Morsch grew up in Potsdam and studied in Berlin with Carl Tausig and Louis Ehlert (piano) and with Hermann Krigar (counterpoint and piano). She then gave piano lessons in Potsdam and Berlin and moved to Verden in 1880 , where she met her future partner Minna Wolff . In 1884 she returned to Berlin and moved into an apartment at Kurfürstenstrasse 105, where she also taught. On November 28, 1884, she gave a music-historical lecture there for the first time, which aroused great interest, so she decided to give further lectures. From 1885 to the 1890s, she held a series of lectures on the history of music in the Victoria Lyceum founded by Georgiana Archer . She later expanded this activity to other cities.
For the World's Columbian Exposition , a world exhibition that took place in Chicago in 1893 , Anna Morsch was commissioned by the German Women's Committee to handle the music department.
After Emil Breslaur's death in 1899, she took over the editing of the magazine Der Klavier-Lehrer - from 1911 Musikpädagische Blätter - which she headed until 1916. In addition, she was one of the founding members of the German Music Pedagogical Association in 1903 and was its secretary for many years. In order to make her reform ideas widely known, she organized several music-pedagogical congresses; In 1913 the 1st International Congress for Music Pedagogy met in the Reichstag .
Anna Morsch died during a spa stay in Wiesbaden.
Works
- The Italian church chant to Palestrina . Ten lectures given at the Victoria Lyceum in Berlin 1885 , Berlin: 2nd edition, Berlin: Stern & Ollendorff 1891
- Germany's female sound artists. Biographical sketches from the present , collected and edited. by Anna Morsch. Stern and Ollendorff, Berlin 1993, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
literature
- Katharina Schurzmann: Anna Morsch . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , vol. 83, no. 21 from May 25, 1916, p. 177 f., Textarchiv - Internet Archive
- Justus Hermann Wetzel : Anna Morsch's position on music theory lessons . In: Musikpädagogische Blätter , vol. 39, no. 11 of June 1, 1916, p. 153 f.
Web links
- Biography on MUGI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Klavier-Lehrer , Vol. 7, No. 24 of December 15, 1884, p. 284, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morsch, Anna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German music teacher and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gransee near Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1916 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |