Frieda Loebenstein

Irma Paula Loebenstein (passport photo 1940)

Maria Frieda Loebenstein , after 1940 Irma Paula Loebenstein OSB (born May 16, 1888 in Hildesheim , died May 6, 1968 in São Paulo , Brazil ) was a German-Brazilian music teacher .

Life

Loebenstein was the daughter of Sofie and Lehmann Löbenstein and her older sister was the mathematician Klara Löbenstein . In 1904 she graduated from the municipal secondary school for girls in Hildesheim and acquired her musical and music education training at private institutes. At the school singing seminar of the Tonikado Association in Hanover, she studied the Tonika-Do method developed by Agnes Hundoegger , which at the time meant “a revolution in music education”. Loebenstein was one of the first students at this school. She started playing the piano as a child and gave piano lessons at the age of 13. In 1912 she began studying music at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin , majoring in piano and focusing on theory and choir. In 1921 she became a lecturer for ear training here. In 1926 she received a lectureship in piano pedagogy at the State Academic University of Music in Berlin. Here she also taught 5 to 13 year old children from poor backgrounds free music for a year. On March 1, 1933, she was released because of her Jewish origin. She then taught privately. Also in 1933 she decided to convert to the Catholic Church . She entered as a novice with the Berlin Sisters of St. John . During this time she immersed herself practically and theoretically in Gregorian chant , about which she published a book in 1936.

With the help of the Johanness Sisters and the Berlin Ordinariate , she managed to emigrate to São Paulo in Brazil in 1939. There she joined the community of Benedictine women in the Abadia de Santa Maria in August 1939 . When she was dressed or after her profession in 1941, she was given the religious name Irma Paula. She later set up a music school, where she combined and taught the Tonika-Do method with the solmization of Guido von Arezzos - a musical hand drawing method similar to the Tonika-Do method.

In São Paulo, where she died, a street called Rua Irmã Paula Loebenstein was named after her.

literature

• Christina Prauss: On the downfall of bourgeois life - the department store founder Lehmann Löbenstein from Datterode and his children. In: Eschweger Geschichtsblätter , Vol. 23, 2012, pp. 59–84.
• Christina Prauss: Sr. Maria Paula (Frieda) Loebenstein OSB (1888–1968), her sisters and the love of the liturgy . In: Yearbook for History and Art in the Diocese of Hildesheim 84/85, 2016/17, pp. 261–283.
• Eva Erben: The first piano lesson in: Practicing and making music , Schott-Verlag Mainz, Issue 1, 2016, pp. 41–43. "Frieda Loebenstein's textbook as a suggestion for a successful start in piano lessons" [1]
• Walter Heise : Frieda Loebenstein, a search for traces in: Hartmuth Kinzler (Ed.) Music and Life (a gift for Sabine Giesbrecht on retirement). Series of publications of FB 3, Erziehungs- u. Kulturwissenschaften, Vol. 18, Osnabrück 2003, ISBN 978-3-923486-26-7 (book, 435 pages)

Fonts

Her piano pedagogical writings have been reprinted several times to this day (see DNB )

• 1927: First piano lessons. A course to develop the musical in early piano lessons . Christian Friedrich Vieweg, Berlin-Lichterfelde. 2nd edition 1928. Edition A for teachers , Edition B: for students .
• 1929: Musical education through the piano . Essay in Melos 1929
• 1930: New music in the music education of children . Essay in Melos 1930
• 1932: The piano in the play of the smallest . Reprinted in 1960
• 1936: Gregorian chant in essence and execution . In collaboration with the Benedictine and student Paul Hindemith's Corbinian Gindele

Web links

• On the downfall of bourgeois life - the founder of the department store Lehmann Löbenstein from Datterode and his children

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum vitae according to Christina Prauss in Networked Remembrance Hildesheim
2. ↑ Südkurier , June 28, 2017