Elisabeth Caland

Elisabeth Caland

Elisabeth Johanna Amelia Caland (born January 13, 1862 in Rotterdam , † January 26, 1929 in Berlin ) was a German pianist, piano teacher and theorist of piano technique of Dutch origin.

Life

Memorial plaque on the residential building in Berlin-Charlottenburg

She received her first training in Rotterdam. She then studied with Marie Jaëll in Paris and 1884–86 with Ludwig Deppe in Berlin (piano), after which she continued her education with Anna and Horace F. Clark-Steiniger (both were also Deppe's students), and with Josef from 1895–96 Řebíček (theory). She taught piano first in Wiesbaden , from 1898 in Berlin and from 1915 in Gehlsdorf and Rostock . She represented Deppe's conception of piano playing by means of coordinated movement of the whole arm instead of the isolated finger movement that emerged from harpsichord playing. She campaigned for this style of play, which was in a confrontation with the then usual. She was the first to establish the conscious lowering of the shoulder blade as an art movement to develop the back muscles as a source of strength when playing the piano, which she also taught practically, and she also introduced the method of shaking movements from the shoulder as a systematic basis for performing tremolo figures and trills. She wrote several books on piano technique, in which she described the “Deppe method”, as well as essays in the magazine “Musikpädagogische Blätter”.

Works by Elisabeth Caland

• Deppe's theory of piano playing , Ebner, Stuttgart 1897.
• Ludwig Deppe's five-finger exercises and his exercise material marked with fingering and pedal use , Ebner'sche Hof-Musikalienhandlung, Stuttgart 1899.
• The artistic piano playing in its physiological and physical processes , Magdeburg 1910.
• Technical advice for piano players , Ebner, Stuttgart 1902 (newly published together with Die Deppe'sche Studium des Klavierspiel , ibid, 1912).
• The use of power sources when playing the piano , Stuttgart 1905.
• Guidelines for checking appropriate arm movements when playing the piano , Magdeburg, Heinrichshofen 1919.
• Practical courses for artistic piano playing , Stuttgart 1921.
• Preliminary exercises for fast octave playing for Deppe's five-finger exercises , 1923.

literature

• Hugo Riemann : Caland, Elisabeth . In: Musiklexikon , 11th edition, Max Hesses Verlag, Berlin 1929, p. 267. ( digitized )

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Caland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Elisabeth Caland in the catalog of the German National Library