Auguste Hohenschild

Auguste Hohenschild ( Sidonie Marie Auguste Caroline Hohenschild ; born September 29, 1851 , † July 15, 1938 in Darmstadt ) was a German contralto and vocal teacher. She was trained by Amalie Joachim , among others, and performed with Marie Fillunger , among others . She was married to the old Germanist Andreas Heusler from 1893 to 1922 and lived in Berlin for several years .

Life

Auguste Hohenschild was the daughter of the Darmstadt doctor Ludwig Ernst Wilhelm Hohenschild (1829–1862) and his wife Auguste Hohenschild nee. Happy. She was probably born in Darmstadt and had a younger sister. From January to October 1870 she studied piano at the Royal University of Music in Berlin and there singing from 1872 to 1873, among others as a student of Amalie Joachim . From 1874 to 1877 she was an assistant teacher for singing at this university. She also “worked for several years as a teacher at the Royal University of Music in Leipzig .” According to a report by the Allgemeine Deutsche Musikzeitung , Hohenschild taught at the University of Berlin until April 1878. She therefore gave up teaching to devote herself to her work as a concert singer.

Her mother, Auguste Hohenschild, born in 1872, is in the Berlin address book. Cheerful registered - it can be assumed that Hohenschild lived with her mother in Berlin from the 1870s onwards because of her studies. Hohenschild appears for the first time independently in the Berlin address book as a concert singer and singing teacher from 1885. In 1881 she lived with her mother for a short time in Frankfurt am Main , probably because of her concert activities .

In January 1893 Hohenschild married the old Germanist Andreas Heusler, who taught in Berlin . Their common apartment was at Schöneberger Ufer 41. During their marriage, regular music evenings were given in the common apartment. Andreas Heusler himself was very interested in music, played the violin and was in contact with Joseph Joachim . The couple separated in 1901 and divorced in 1922. In 1901, Hohenschild lived for a few months with her mother and sister in Schönberg near Bensheim . In the Berlin address book she is listed again for the first time in 1904 as Auguste Heusler, and in 1906 as the singing teacher Auguste Heusler-Hohenschild. From 1909 there is no longer any information in the Berlin address book.

Auguste Heusler b. Hohenschild died on July 15, 1938 in Darmstadt at the age of 86.

Concert activity

Hohenschild performed mainly from the 1870s up to her marriage in 1892. Joint concerts with Marie Fillunger are occupied: for example on January 29, 1875 in Hamburg in the 2nd subscription concert of the Voigt'schen Cäcilienverein as well as on March 4th and 5th, 1888 in the concert of the Essen Music Association for its 50th anniversary. Reconstructions from the Allgemeine Deutsche Musikzeitung refer to concerts in Hamburg, Berlin, Potsdam, Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main, Kassel, Basel, Cologne, Aachen and Bremen between 1875 and 1878. She sang in Mozart's Requiem as well as songs and arias by Schubert and Schumann . Brahms , Beethoven , Cherubini , Hiller , Spohr , in oratorios such as Jephtha by Handel and Paulus by Mendelssohn Bartholdiy . In 1878 she performed in Bremen a. a. with Marie Fillunger, Amalie Joachim, alongside Pablo Sarasate and Joseph Joachim, who also appeared at the concerts.

In the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Hohenschild is registered as a singer (alto) in the advertisements of the concert agency Hermann Wolff in the years 1886, 1889, 1890 and 1891 , in the magazine Signals for the Musical World in 1888.

According to a concert review in the Allgemeine Musikischen Zeitung , she performed in Stuttgart in 1881, where she sang the aria “Hellstrahlender Tag” from Odysseus by Max Bruch , as well as “Mainacht” by Brahms, “Sympathie” by Joseph Haydn and “Im Volkston” by Hans Schmidt .

In an article about the Royal University of Music Berlin published in 1894 in the communications of the Association for the History of Berlin , Auguste Hohenschild is named in a list of the successful and well-known students of the university.

Research needs

Due to the sparse sources, many questions remain unanswered regarding Hohenschild's musical training and concert activities, the duration of her lessons with Amalie Joachim and information about her own singing students. Extensive research into concert reviews in music magazines of the 19th century would enable further stations of her artistic work to be found and thus the temporal and spatial scope of her concert activities and her repertoire to be approximately reconstructed.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Landesarchiv Berlin, Standesamt Berlin III, P Rep. 804, No. 623, p. 23. Accessed November 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt, G 16 A Philippshospital Hofheim / files, personal files / doctors (HStAD inventory G 16 A no. 2). Retrieved November 15, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Darmstädter Friedhofsbücher, df-A-1932-1940: A - Z 1932 to 1940. Retrieved on November 15, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Schumann-Briefedition, Series II (correspondence with friends and artist colleagues), Volume 15: Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with the Voigt, Preußer, Herzogenberg families and other correspondents in Leipzig. Edited by Annegret Rosenmüller and Ekaterina Smyka, Cologne 2016, pp. 944f.
5. ↑ Allgemeine Deutsche Musikzeitung, April 26, 1878, p. 154. Retrieved November 16, 2019 . 
6. ↑ General housing advertiser along with address and business manual for Berlin, its surroundings and Charlottenburg. Edition 1872. Retrieved November 15, 2019 . 
7. ^ Berlin address book, edition 1885. Retrieved on November 15, 2019 .  .
8. ↑ Address book of Frankfurt a. M. with Bockenheim, Bornheim, Oberrad and Niederrad, 1881. Accessed November 15, 2019 . 
9. ^ Berlin address book, 1894 edition. Retrieved November 15, 2019 . 
10. ^ Andreas Heusler to Wilhelm Ranisch. Letters from the years 1890–1940. Edited by Klaus Düwel and Heinrich Beck in collaboration with Oskar Bandle (= Contributions to Nordic Philology, Vol. 18). Basel and Frankfurt a./M .: 1989, p. 65, p. 101 (letter of May 24, 1896), p. 122 (letter of January 9, 1898).
11. ^ Andreas Heusler to Wilhelm Ranisch. Letters from the years 1890–1940. Edited by Klaus Düwel and Heinrich Beck in collaboration with Oskar Bandle (= Contributions to Nordic Philology, Vol. 18). Basel and Frankfurt a./M .: 1989, p. 145 (letter of February 17, 1901), p. 153f. (Letter from September 22nd, 1901).
12. ↑ Berlin address book, 1904 edition. Retrieved November 15, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Berlin Address Book, 1906 edition. Retrieved November 15, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Schumann-Briefedition, Series I (family letters), Volume 8: Clara Schumann in correspondence with Eugenie Schumann, I: 1857–1888. Edited by Christina Siegfried, Cologne 2013, p. 257, note 16.
15. ↑ Ibid., P. 594.
16. ↑ Allgemeine Deutsche Musikzeitung, year 1875. Retrieved on November 16, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Allgemeine Deutsche Musikzeitung, year 1876. Retrieved on November 16, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Allgemeine Deutsche Musikzeitung, year 1877. Retrieved on November 16, 2019 . 
19. ↑ Allgemeine Deutsche Musikzeitung, year 1878. Retrieved on November 16, 2019 . 
20. ↑ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 1886, 53rd vol. 82 p. 264. Retrieved on November 15, 2019 . 
21. ↑ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 1889, vol. 56, vol. 85 p. 318. Accessed November 15, 2019 . 
22. ↑ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 1890 57th vol. 86, p. 312. Retrieved on November 15, 2019 . 
23. ↑ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 1891, vol. 58, vol. 87, p. 268. Retrieved November 15, 2019 . 
24. ↑ Signals for the musical world 1888, column 524. Retrieved November 27, 2019 . 
25. ↑ Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung 1881, No. 13 of March 30, 1881, pp. 206f. Retrieved November 15, 2019 . 
26. ↑ P. Roth: " The Royal Academic University for Music in Berlin ." In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins, 1894, pp. 128–130, here p. 129.