Friederike Müller (pianist)

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Friederike Müller, lithograph by Anton Hähnisch, 1847
Grave of Friederike Streicher

Friederike Maria Wilhelmine Müller (born July 3, 1816 in Brno , Moravia , † December 12, 1895 in Vienna ) was an Austrian pianist .

Life

Her parents were Moritz Müller, actuary at the kk Judicium delegatum militare mixtum for Moravia and Silesia based in Brno , as well as Wilhelmine Friederike Maria Müller geb. Sedelmeyer. After her mother apparently died early, Friederike Müller lived with three of her father's sisters in Vienna, one of whom - Caroline - ran a girls' education institute in downtown Vienna. She received her first piano lessons from Wenzel Plachy (1785-1858), since 1811 organist at the Piarist Church .

At the beginning of March 1839, “Frizzi” went to Paris with one of the aunts to take lessons from Frédéric Chopin . He dedicated the Allegro de concert op. 46 to her. After her return in 1841, several concerts were booked, e. B. in December 1841 in the hall of the Streicher company in the Ungargasse and on April 17, 1842 in the hall of the Wiener Musikverein . In the winter of 1844/45 she studied again with Chopin for a few weeks.

She wrote a kind of diary about her stay in Paris and her encounters with Chopin in the form of around 230 letters to her Viennese aunts. They are an extremely valuable source of his biography, but so far have only been published in part, initially by the Chopin biographer Friedrich Niecks .

In Vienna she gave several concerts with the Jansa Quartet . She earned her living with piano lessons, among other things in the girls' education institute of her aunt Caroline. On January 7, 1849 she married the piano maker Johann Baptist Streicher . His first wife Auguste geb. André died on July 1, 1847. Friederike now mainly took care of the upbringing of his children and their daughter Caroline.

She died at the age of 80. At the funeral service on January 19, 1896 in the Augustinian Church (Vienna) , Cherubini's Requiem was performed under the direction of Ferdinand Löwe .

Their final resting place is in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 27B, Row 1. Number G2).

Works

  • Friedrich Niecks, Friedrich Chopin as a person and musician , Leipzig 1890, Volume 2, pp. 366–370 (Friederike Müller's memories of Chopin) ( digitized version )
  • From the diary of a German Chopin student , in: Chopin-Almanach. On the hundredth anniversary of the death of Fryderyk Chopin , Potsdam 1949, pp. 134–142
  • From the diary of a Viennese student of Chopin (1839–1841, 1844–1845) , in: Wiener Chopin-Blätter , 1994, p. 6ff.
  • Uta Goebl-Streicher, Friederike Müller, a favorite student of Chopin, in her unknown letters from Paris (1839–1841, 1844–1845) , in: Notations 1985–2015 , ed. by Karin Wagner and Anton Voigt, Vienna: Universaledition, 2015, pp. 263–276
  • Uta Goebl-Streicher, Frédéric Chopin. Insights into lessons and the environment. The letters of his favorite student Friederike Müller, Paris 1839–1845 (=  musicological writings , 51), Munich / Salzburg: Katzbichler 2018; ISBN 978-3-87397-214-8

literature

  • Mieczysław Tomaszewski and Bożena Weber, Fryderyk Chopin. A diary in pictures , Arkady 1990, p. 166 f. (Mention)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alexander Rausch : Streicher, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
  2. ^ Fr. Nicks (1902)
  3. ↑ a b c Communication from Uta Goebl-Streicher
  4. ↑ Goebl-Streicher, p. 263
  5. ^ Sandra McColl, in: Music Criticism in Vienna, 1896-1897. Critically Moving Forms, p. 45
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Friederike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Friederike Maria Wilhelmine; Streicher, Friederike (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1895
Place of death Vienna