Ella Adaïewsky

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Elisabeth von Schultz-Adaïewsky
Ella Adaïewsky's grave figure by Dal Zotto

Ella Adaïewsky ( Russian Элла Георгиевна Адаевская , German transcription Ella Georgievna Adajewskaja; born February 10, jul. / 22. February  1846 greg. In Saint Petersburg , †  26 July 1926 in Bonn , also known by her birth name Elizabeth (from) Schultz or . Elisabeth (von) Schultz-Adaïewsky and the pseudonym Bertramin ) was a Baltic German pianist and composer .

Life

Elisabeth von Schultz's father was the German Baltic doctor and writer Georg Julius von Schultz (pseudonym Dr. Bertram). Her mother Theodora was a student of Adolf Henselt and gave piano lessons herself. Ella Adaïewsky was also initially tutored by her mother. She later studied in Saint Petersburg with Adolf Henselt and Nicolas von Martinoff (1813–1864). From 1857 to 1859 she was in Eisenach and Weimar and received lessons from Martha von Sabinin (1831-1892) and also from Franz Liszt . From 1864 she studied piano with Alexander Dreyschock , music history with Alexander Faminzyn (1841-1896), composition with Nikolai Saremba , music theory with Ignaz Vojáček and instrumentation with Anton Rubinstein at the St. Petersburg Conservatory . Adaïewsky went on concert tours as a pianist and settled in Venice in 1882 . In 1909 she moved to Neuwied, at the invitation of Baroness Franziska von Loë, in the Blessing House of Monrepos Castle . During the First World War, she called herself von Schultz again in order not to be suspected of being a Russian spy.

Adaïewsky wrote piano concertos , vocal music (including choirs for Russian Orthodox worship) and two operas, which she published under the pseudonym Adaïewsky. She also edited a collection of Italian dance songs and published on folk music and music in ancient Greece. Her opera Dawn of Freedom fell victim to tsarist censorship in 1877 and was not performed.

Her grave is in the old cemetery in Bonn , the grave figure of Antonio Dal Zotto was placed by her nephew, the Austrian writer Benno Geiger .

Works

  • Christmas Cantata, 1868
  • The Boyar's Daughter , Opera, 1873
  • Dawn of Freedom , Opera, 1877
  • Greek Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, 1880
  • 24 preludes for voice and piano, 1903–1907
  • Hymn to the Muse and Greek choir dance for alto solo, two-part female choir and instrumental ensemble. Text after Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1917

literature

  • Renate Hüsken: Ella Adaïewsky (1846–1926). Pianist - composer - musicologist , Dohr, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-936655-18-9 . Cologne, Univ., Diss., 2003
  • Marina Lobanova: Adaevskaja, Ella Georgievna , in: MGG , Vol. 1 (1999), Col. 97-98.
  • Ella von Schultz-Adaïewsky: Hymn to the Muse and Greek Choral Dance . Score. After the autograph ed. by Denis Lomtev. Location (Westphalia) 2013.
  • Ella von Schultz-Adaïewsky: Dawn of Freedom. Volksoper in four acts . Vocal score. Adapted from the autograph and edited. by Denis Lomtev. Location (Westphalia) 2015.
  • Ella von Schultz-Adaïewsky: Christmas cantata . Vocal score. Adapted from the autograph and edited. by Denis Lomtev. Location (Westphalia) 2018.
  • Helmut Scheunchen: Lexicon of German Baltic Music. Harro von Hirschheydt publishing house, Wedemark-Elze 2002. ISBN 3-7777-0730-9 . Pp. 237-239.

Web links

Commons : Ella Adaïewsky  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marina Lobanova:  Adaevskaja, Ėlla Georgievna. In: MGG Online (subscription required).
  2. ↑ Malcolm Hamrick Brown:  Adayevskaya, Ella Georgiyevna. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
personal data
SURNAME Adaïewsky, Ella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schultz, Elisabeth von (maiden name); Schultz, Elisabeth; Schultz-Adaïewsky, Elisabeth von; Schultz-Adaïewsky, Elisabeth; Bertramin (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1926
Place of death Bonn , Germany