Celeste Chop-Groenevelt

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Celeste Chop-Groenevelt (1903 or earlier)

Sara Celeste Chop-Groenevelt (born January 24, 1875 in New Orleans , † December 21, 1958 in Berlin-Schöneberg ) was a German-American pianist .

Life

Celeste Groenevelt grew up in New Orleans. Her mother Sara Groenevelt, b. Bartlett (1842–1899) was a pianist herself, studied with Ignaz Moscheles at the Leipzig Conservatory and wrote poetry under various pseudonyms. Her father Edward Frederick Groenevelt (1827–1899) came from a Dutch noble family and was a violinist and composer.

Groenevelt began playing the piano at the age of three and appeared on the concert stage in New Orleans for the first time when he was five. She studied music with Xaver Scharwenka at the Scharwenka Conservatory of Music in New York , with Theodor Leschetitzky in Vienna , with Moritz Moszkowski in Paris and finally with Eugenio di Pirani in Berlin , where she, in the 1890s, with her mother and her young deceased sister, the violinist Grace Groenevelt (around 1877–1896) lived. In Schöneberg, she married the journalist and music writer Max Chop (1862–1929) on August 30, 1900 . The widower brought two sons into the marriage. A child they shared died shortly after birth in 1904.

Celeste Chop-Groenevelt gained a reputation as an outstanding interpreter of Liszt , Tchaikovsky , Grieg , Schumann and Beethoven . She celebrated her first major successes in Berlin; it was followed by appearances in other German cities, in Europe and America. Among her awards was the appointment as court pianist in Schwarzburg-Sondershausen .

After the death of her husband in 1929, she took over the management of his publishing house Signals for the Musical World, Prof. Max Chop , who published the weekly of the same name until it was discontinued in 1941.

Until her death, Celeste Chop-Groenevelt lived for almost 60 years on Augsburger Strasse , in what is now part of Fuggerstrasse. She was buried next to her husband on January 2, 1959 in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery (field DI, row 15, grave 11); the grave sites were abandoned in the mid-1990s.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register, registry office Schöneberg, No. 2466/1958
  2. ↑ Marriage register, registry office Schöneberg I, No. 502/1900
  3. ^ Horst Kliemann: Who's who in Germany , Volume 1, Oldenbourg Verlag, 1956, p. 195
  4. ^ Book of the dead Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirchhof July 1956 to December 1964, serial no. 1959/1 (38118)
personal data
SURNAME Chop-Groenevelt, Celeste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groenevelt, Sara Celeste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American pianist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1958
Place of death Berlin-Schöneberg