Auguste Auspitz-Kolár

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Auguste Auspitz-Kolár

Auguste Johanna Josefine Anna Ludmila Auspitz-Kolár , b. Kolárova (born March 19, 1844 in Prague , † December 26, 1878 in Vienna ), was an Austrian - Bohemian pianist and composer .

Life

Auguste Auspitz-Kolár was born as Augusta Kolárova. Her father, Joseph Jiři Kolár (Joseph Georg Kolár) was a well-known Bohemian actor , director , writer and translator . Her mother, Anna Manetinsky-Kolár (* 1817 in Pest ; † July 11, 1882 in Prague) was a singer at the Prague Theater . Auguste received her training at the Prague Music Institute from Bedřich Smetana , the husband of her cousin Katharina Kolárova (* 1827, † April 19, 1859 in Dresden ), who was also a pianist. After his departure from Prague (1856) his former teacher, the blind pianist Joseph Proksch , taught Auguste and led her to her first concert in Prague at the age of eleven. Soon she was a celebrated pianist who completed her three-year study with Wilhelmine Clauss-Szarvady in Paris around 1865 . In the same year she appeared first in Prague, then with the Hellmesberger Quartet and the Vienna Philharmonic in Vienna. Her G minor Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was considered a sensation, and she was also enthusiastic as an interpreter of Robert Schumann's piano music . The music critic Eduard Hanslick wrote: “Your lecture was of immaculate purity, security and smoothness, with a light sheen like gold dust over it. Among the virtuosos, Miss Kolár is not one of the imposing or dazzling ones, but one of those quietly delighting ones who captivate with a quiet but sure hand. "

On July 16, 1865 she married the Viennese doctor Dr. med. Heinrich Auspitz . In July 1869 she went on a successful concert tour to London , also the following year. At the end of the 1870s, Auguste fell ill and withdrew from public life. Shortly before her death in November 1878, however, she asked the court conductor G. Reif again for an engagement as a soloist . Her artistic repertoire included pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven , Johannes Brahms , Frédéric Chopin , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Jean-Philippe Rameau , Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner .

Their son Hans (* around 1875; † January 1879) and her husband are buried together with Auguste in the Vienna Central Cemetery in the family grave site 16 / E / 3/12.

Works

  • Scherzo fantastique, op. 2, Bartholf Senff Leipzig August 1863
  • In the forest. 3 Morceaux caractéristiques, op.6, Klemm Leipzig December 1865
  • Forest pictures, studies and songs, Bartholf Senff Leipzig

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prague baptismal register, St. Jindřich, 1842-1845, scan 167
  2. ↑ Vienna Death Register, Our Lady of the Scots, 1873-1889, scan 99
  3. ^ A b Emil Breslaur, Anna Morsch: The piano teacher. Musikpaedagogische Zeitschrift, No. 2, Berlin, January 15, 1878, p. 20
  4. ^ Oscar Teuber: History of the Prague Theater: From the Beginning of the Acting to the Most Recent Times, Third Part, Hofdruckerei A. Haase Prague 1888, p. 873
  5. ^ Dexter Smith, Lorin Fuller Deland, Thomas Tapper, Philip Hale: Musical Record and Review, No. 468, Boston January 1, 1901, pp. 33f
  6. ↑ From the concert hall. Reviews and descriptions from the last 20 years of Viennese musical life. Wilhelm Braumüller Vienna 1870, p. 338
  7. ^ Cemetery database
  8. ↑ Hofmeister: Musical-literary monthly report August 1863 p. 139
  9. ↑ Hofmeister: Musical-literary monthly report December 1865 p. 217
personal data
SURNAME Auspitz-Kolár, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Auspitz-Kolár, Augusta; Kolárova, Augusta; Auspitz-Kolar, Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1878
Place of death Vienna