Clara von Goßler

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Clara von Goßler , also Klara von Gossler (born March 27, 1827 in Berlin ; † December 19, 1864 ibid), was a German pianist and composer .

Life

Origin and family

Clara von Goßler was a daughter of the Public Prosecutor General and Really Secret Chief Justice Conrad Christian von Goßler and his second wife Henriette Charlotte von Rumohr (1786–1845). She came from the Goßler family . The district administrator Eugen von Goßler (3rd line of the noble family) was her brother. Her stepbrothers were among others the Real Privy Councilor and Minister of State Gustav Albert von Goßler (1st line of the noble family) and the Prussian Chancellor Karl Gustav von Goßler (2nd line of the noble family).

Artistic creation

According to contemporaries, Clara von Goßler is said to have been an outstanding pianist and composer, but her sphere of activity was mainly in the private sphere. Nevertheless, some pieces are available as Op. 1 to Op. 4 and has been dealt with in some contemporary reviews . Robert Franz had also examined several of her compositions, which is evident from an exchange of letters with Arnold Senfft von Pilsach .

She was very good friends with Theodor Storm , whom she met through her stepbrother Karl Gustav von Goßler in Berlin in 1854. Op. 2 and Op. 3 dedicated it to Theodor Storm personally in a letter in 1864. Theodor Storm wrote to Theodor Fontane in 1864 that the unfortunately were " excellent ". She later became the godmother of his daughter Lucie.

On the occasion of Theodor Storm's 200th birthday, the works Die Lieb'ist wie ein Lullaby and And Do You Ask Why were performed so cloudy in 2017 in Wolfenbüttel.

Works (selection)

  • Op. 1: Six songs, 1863
    1. I sneak around (text by August von Platen-Hallermünde )
    2. Over night
    3. With black sails (text by Heinrich Heine )
    4. Fein's Rösslein, I'll shoe you (text by Nikolaus Lenau )
    5. The waters are running (text by Franz Theodor Kugler )
    6. I want to love you
  • Op. 2: Six songs for mezzo-soprano with accompaniment of the pianoforte , 1864
    1. In gloomy expanse
    2. O jubilant spring joy (text by Edmund Höfer)
    3. Oh often I saw roses blooming (text by Berthold Sigismund )
    4. I poor little owl (text by Wernher von Tegernsee)
    5. Love is like a lullaby (text by Theodor Storm )
    6. And do you ask why so cloudy (text by Theodor Storm)
  • Op. 3: Six songs for mezzo-soprano, 1864
    1. Rose time, how quickly over
    2. You brook, not so fast
    3. Moonlight night
    4. To the nightingales
    5. Spring song
    6. I want me to be at home!
  • Op. 4: Loose leaves, Six Piano Pieces, 1864
    1. The birds are singing
    2. Forest Mayflowers
    3. Wild Rose
    4. butterfly
    5. Autumn timeless
    6. Snow-white Christmas flower

Reviews (selection)

  • Six songs Op. 1 , Neue Berliner Musikzeitung , 1863, p. 177
  • Six songs for a voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte (Op. 2) , Niederrheinische Musik-Zeitung, No. 44, 1864, p. 349
  • Op. 4, Lose Blätter , Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 32, Volume 61, 1865, p. 117
  • Loose leaves, six piano pieces Op. 4 , Signals for the Musical World, No. 28, Volume 23, 1865, p. 450

literature

  • Heiner Mückenberger: Theodor Storm and Clara von Goßler (1824–1864) , Storm-Blätter from Heiligenstadt, 19th year, 2015, pp. 116–119

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Franz: Robert Franz and Arnold Freiherr Senfft von Pilsach . Alexander Duncker, Berlin 1907, ISBN 978-5-87608-759-1 , p. 9 + 13 ( google.de [accessed April 1, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Nation Europe . Nation Europa Verlag., 1990, p. 85 ( google.de [accessed April 1, 2018]).
  3. ^ Arthur Tilo Alt: Theodor Storm - Ernst Esmarch: Correspondence. Critical edition . Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co KG, 1979, ISBN 978-3-503-01613-6 , p. u. a. 82 ( google.de [accessed April 1, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Theodor Storm: A Confession. Novella Medici: Annotated Novella Edition: With source materials, letter documents, travel sketches, timetable, bibliography and numerous illustrations . Igel Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86815-714-7 , pp. 143 ( google.de [accessed on March 25, 2018]).
  5. ^ Arthur Tilo Alt: Theodor Storm - Ernst Esmarch: Correspondence. Critical edition . Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co KG, 1979, ISBN 978-3-503-01613-6 , p. 170 ff . ( google.de [accessed April 1, 2018]).
  6. ^ Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane: Correspondence . E. Schmidt, 1981, ISBN 978-3-503-01667-9 , pp. 206 ( google.de [accessed April 1, 2018]).
  7. ^ Concert "But my whole heart hangs on you ..." Society of Friends, Herzog August Bibliothek, 2017, accessed on April 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Goßler, Clara von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gossler, Klara von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1864
Place of death Berlin