Friederike Charlotte Bause
Friederike Charlotte Bause (* 1766 in Leipzig ; † March 15, 1785 ibid) was a German pianist and glass harmonica player.
Life
Friederike Charlotte Bause (often just Friederike) was the older of the two daughters of the Leipzig copperplate engraver Johann Friedrich Bause and his wife Henriette Charlotte nee. Brünner (1742-1818). While her younger sister Juliane Wilhelmine had a talent for drawing, Friederike Charlotte was musically gifted. It is not known whether and from whom she took piano lessons. At the age of fifteen, however, her playing was so impressive that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach “considered her worthy of his approval by sending a new piano concerto from his work”
Thirteen years after studying in Leipzig, on the occasion of a visit to Haus Bause on Christmas 1782, in a letter to Frau von Stein , Goethe praised not only the musicality, but also the beauty of 16-year-old Friederike: “Bey Bausen played the piano beautifully Mad. Neumann from Dresden and Bausen's oldest daughter who is particularly beautiful. "
Friederike Charlotte Bause also played the glass harmonica , the musical instrument developed by Benjamin Franklin in 1761, in which the tones are produced by touching rotating glass bells with wet fingers and which is said to have an "angelic, melting sound". She was the first woman in Germany to perform with this instrument.
When she was 19, Friederike Bause suddenly and unexpectedly fell ill. She died after 14 days. Doctors could not find any cause of death. The Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau speaks of a nervous attack in 1827/28 that she is said to have suffered as a result of playing the glass harmonica. Other glass harmonica players also reported nervous problems.
The Leipzig poet and tax collector Christian Felix Weisse , whose daughter was friends with the Bause sisters and a Madame Dyk, published an " Elegy on Friederike Charlotte Bause" with 26 four-line stanzas three days after Friederike's death .
literature
- Bause (Friederike) In Ernst Ludwig Gerber: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of the Tonkünstler , Leipzig 1790 Sp. 119 (digitized version)
Web links
- Bause, Friederike Charlotte. In: European female instrumentalists of the 18th and 19th centuries. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Ludwig Gerber: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of the Tonkünstler
- ↑ Goethe Letters 1782. In: Zeno.org. December 27, 1782, Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Julia Adolf: The oddities of the glass harmonica . Diploma thesis, Vienna 2013, p. 3 (digitized version)
- ^ A b Rainer Schmitz, Benno Ure: How Mozart got into the ball: Curiosities and surprises from the world of music . Pantheon Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-641-23636-6 , p. 456 (digitized version)
- ↑ Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau Vol .: 48. 1927/28, p. 261 (digital copy)
- ^ Elegy to Friederike Charlotte Bause : In: Litteratur und Völkerkunde: a periodical work , Volume 7, Leipzig 1785, pp. 197–201 (digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bause, Friederike Charlotte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist and glass harmonica player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1766 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1785 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |