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Ida pride

Ida Carolina Stolz , b. Bondy , (born September 27, 1841 in Graz , † April 16, 1903 there ) was an Austrian pianist .

life and career

Ida Carolina Bondy was the daughter of Leopold Bondy and Pauline Edle von Vernay. Her sister was Emma Ritter, née Bondy (1838-1894), a pianist in Scotland . In 1862 Ida Bondy married the composer and music teacher Jakob Stolz from Graz . Robert Stolz and Leopold Stolz were their sons.

Ida Stolz was a qualified concert pianist. She worked as a music teacher and concert pianist. Ida Stolz taught piano at the licensed music school of her husband Jakob Stolz, which was housed in Grazer Schmied-Gasse No. 26, in the former Graeflich-Wurmbrandschen Palais. Ida Stolz ran the music school together with her husband and took over the commercial side of the administration, such as the bookkeeping and the preparation of the bills for the music students.

She was considered a "celebrated concert pianist" in the musical life of Graz. The communication scientist and journalist Eugen Semrau , author of a more recent biography on Robert Stolz, describes Ida Stolz as a “renowned concert pianist”.

Ida Stolz was the first in the Stolz family to become aware of the musical talent of her son Robert, encouraged his talent from an early age and gave him his first music lessons; from her Robert Stolz learned to play the piano .

Robert Stolz later commented on his mother's influence on his musical upbringing as follows: “I owe everything to my mother. In addition to all the love she has given me so richly, she awakened the love of music in me and gave me my first piano lessons, recognizing my compositional talent early on and teaching me to put everything I saw in my imagination into Expressing music. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Robert Stolz in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Wolf-Dietrich Brümmel, Friedrich von Booth: Robert Stolz. Melody of a life. A composer conquers the world. A picture biography. Marion von Schröder Verlags GmbH Hamburg, 1st edition. 1967. Pages 14, 19, 51, 177.
  3. ↑ Barbara Boisits: Pride, 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 .
  4. ↑ The whole world is sky blue. Robert and Einzi proudly tell . Based on stories, tapes and documents by Robert Stolz recorded by Aram Bakshian jr. Bastei Lübbe. Bergisch Gladbach 1986, p. 19. ISBN 3-404-61089-X
  5. ↑ Eugen Semrau: Robert Stolz. His life. His music . Residenz Verlag . Salzburg 2002, p. 97. ISBN 3-7017-1309-X
personal data
SURNAME Proud, Ida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Proud, Ida Carolina (full name); Bondy, Ida; Bondy, Ida Carolina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1903
Place of death Graz