Gisella Grosz

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Gisella Grosz , actually Gizella Grosz (German: Gisela Groß) (born November 26, 1875 in Szilágysomlyó, Austria-Hungary , today Șimleu Silvaniei , Romania; † 1942 in Riga , Latvia ) was a Hungarian pianist of Jewish origin.

Gisella Grosz, around 1910

Life

Grosz studied at the Royal Hungarian Music Academy in Budapest with István Thomán. She gave her first concerts in Budapest in 1897 and in Leipzig and Berlin in 1898 and 1899 with great success. Since 1898 she has lived permanently in Berlin, where she continued her studies with Teresa Carreño .

She made her debut as a soloist with the Berliner Philharmoniker on January 16, 1902, further appearances followed in 1905, 1908 and 1909. On February 6, 1906, she was one of the first female pianists to record 5 pieces for Welte-Mignon , for which only first-class pianists were selected were.

In 1911 she gave up concert activities and married the well-known music critic Adolf Weißmann . After retiring from concert activities, she continued to work as a piano teacher. Together with her husband she organized numerous house concerts, which she gave up after his premature death in 1929. In the Berlin telephone books she was entered as Gisella Weißmann from 1937 to 1940, in 1940 already with the compulsory addition Sara , and in 1941 Jews were deleted from the telephone books.

In January 1942 she was deported to the Riga ghetto , where she died that same year. Details of her death are not known.

Grosz and Weißmann had a daughter born before wedlock. Ilse Weißmann, born in 1908, also became a pianist; she received lessons mainly from her mother and Konrad Wolff in Paris. Since 1933 the daughter lived in France, England and Italy, in 1940 she emigrated to the USA, where she died in 2000.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Országos Hirlap , Dec. 20, 1897, p. 4; Dec. 21, 1897, p. 8
  2. ↑ Musikalisches Wochenblatt , Leipzig, April 28, 1898, vol. 38, no. 18, p. 266
  3. ↑ Országos Hirlap , February 14, 1898, p. 10
  4. ^ Peter Muck: One Hundred Years of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra , Tutzing, Schneider, 1982
  5. ↑ Gerhard Dangel and Hans-W. Schmitz: Welte-Mignon -Reproduktionen / Welte-Mignon Reproductions. Complete catalog of recordings for the Welte-Mignon Reproducing Piano 1905–1932 / Complete Library Of Recordings For The Welte-Mignon Reproducing Piano 1905–1932 . Stuttgart 2006. ISBN 3-00-017110-X . P. 446
  6. ^ Information from the family in the archive of the Augustinermuseum Freiburg

literature

  • Adolf Weißmann : Berlin as a City of Music: History of the Opera and the Concert from 1740 to 1911 . Berlin, Schuster & Loeffler, 1911
  • Walter Niemann : Master of the Piano , Berlin, Schuster & Loeffler, 1919
personal data
SURNAME Grosz, Gisella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grosz, Gizella (maiden name); Weißmann, Gisella; Great, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Șimleu Silvaniei
DATE OF DEATH 1942
Place of death Riga