Ilona Eibenschütz

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Ilona Eibenschütz (born March 24, 1871 in Pest , Austria-Hungary , † May 21, 1967 in London ) was a Hungarian pianist .

Life

Ilona Eibenschütz was the ninth child of her parents David Eibenschütz (1828–1910) and Marie Eibenschütz nee. Stern (1826-1906). Ilona's year of birth is given in many biographical sources as 1872; however, she was born on March 24, 1871. Her father was a merchant and a cantor in the Pest synagogue. Ilona received her first lessons from her brother Sigmund Eibenschütz; at the age of four and a half she gave her first public performance as a pianist on January 9, 1878 in Pest. She also received lessons from Hans Schmitt, who also organized several concerts for her. In 1878 she received an imperial scholarship to continue her education with Hans Schmitt (1835–1907) at the Vienna Conservatory .

Ilona Eibenschütz was considered a child prodigy and is said to have made music in a duet with Franz Liszt . At the age of nine she played Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor KV 466 with the Vienna Philharmonic . From 1881 she went on concert tours through German cities. She had performances in France and in front of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I . In 1883 she went on a tour of the larger cities of Scandinavia, where she also appeared in front of the Danish Queen. In October 1883 she went on a tour through Eastern Europe, played in Riga on October 17 and 19, and performed in front of the Russian royal family on December 21. She completed her training in Vienna at the age of twelve and initially took a concert break from 1886.

From 1886 to May 1890 she studied piano with Clara Schumann and counterpoint with Iwan Knorr at the Hochschen Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main . Towards the beginning of her studies, she also got to know the composer Johannes Brahms there. From 1889 Eibenschütz began again to undertake concert tours through Germany, Austria and Holland. In 1890/91 she traveled to London, where she gave at least four concerts; from 1891 she toured regularly in London, Leipzig, Vienna and Berlin. She played Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 , for the first time on November 7, 1890 in Berlin and again in Utrecht. On January 12, 1891, she gave a concert in London for the first time at the Monday popular concerts in St. James's Hall, where she performed Robert Schumann's Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13.

During a vacation with her family in Bad Ischl , she met Brahms again in 1891. Both of them repeated their encounter in Ischl in the following years, and Brahms played his piano pieces op. 118 and 119 for her for the first time himself there. In her memoirs, Eibenschütz gives the year 1892 as the date for this, but musicology assumes that it must have been August 1893. From Ischl Brahms had been in correspondence with Clara Schumann about the piano pieces op. 119 since May 1893 and had sent her the sheet music in June and July of that year. Eibenschütz, who was regarded as a Brahms expert, performed the piano pieces op. 118 and 119 between January and April 1894 in several concerts in England, first in excerpts and then as complete cycles.

In 1902 she married the London-based stock trader Carl Derenburg (1851–1927) from Frankfurt am Main and soon afterwards largely withdrew from public concert activities. Their daughters were Rosie Marie-Louise (born 1905) and Elizabeth (born 1907). As early as 1903 she made recordings of compositions by Brahms, Frédéric Chopin and Domenico Scarlatti . In 1910 she played at a concert of the Classical Concert Society and in 1913 appeared with the Rosé Quartet . She documented her memory of Brahms in an essay in 1926 and in a radio lecture for the BBC in 1952, during which she also played some piano pieces. In 1952 she also appeared again in public and played with the Amadeus Quartet , the Piano Quintet by Brahms.

Her siblings were the conductor Siegmund Eibenschütz and the actress Gina Eibenschütz, her niece was singing teacher Maria Theodora Eibenschütz. There is no evidence of a relationship to the opera singer Riza Eibenschütz .

Fonts

  • My Recollections of Brahms. In: The Musical Times. 1926, p. 598 f.
  • Reminiscences of Brahms: BBC. Radio broadcast on October 30, 1952

literature

  • Albert Ehrlich : Famous pianists past and present. A collection of 116 biographers and 114 portraits. 1894. (AH Payne 1998, p. 100 f.)
  • Elisabeth Th. Hilscher-Fritz, Monika Kornberger: Eibenschuetz, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
  • Cord Garben: Past luck ... the art and fate of legendary pianists. 2nd Edition. Wilhelmshaven 2018, pp. 92-109, ISBN 978-3-7959-1013-6
  • Ingrid Bodsch (ed.): The student - the master. Ilona Eibenschütz and Clara Schumann. Evidence of a woman's career around 1900. Introduction, editing and commentary by Kazuko Ozawa and Matthias Wendt. Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-931878-51-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth entry in the Jewish birth registers of Budapest, 1871, no. 366, scan of the original on FamilySearch, film no. 642964
  2. ↑ Matthias Wendet, Kazuko Ozawa: The student - the master . In: Ingrid Bodsch (ed.): The student - the master. Ilona Eibenschütz and Clara Schumann. Evidence of a woman's career around 1900. Bonn 2019, pp. 15–16.
  3. ↑ Jewish Birth Records, Budapest, 1871, No. 366
  4. ↑ Ibid., P. 15.
  5. ↑ Ibid., P. 22.
  6. ↑ Ibid., Pp. 23-24.
  7. ↑ Silke Wenzel: Ilona Eibenschütz. In: Beatrix Borchard (Ed.): Music mediation and gender research: Lexicon and multimedia presentations. Hamburg University of Music and Theater, 2003ff. As of December 31, 2007 (mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de , section "Profile", accessed on: November 16, 2019).
  8. ^ Matthias Wendt, Kazuko Ozawa: Die Schülerin - Die Meisterin , p. 36f.
  9. ↑ Ibid., P. 40.
  10. ↑ Silke Wenzel: Ilona Eibenschütz. In: Beatrix Borchard (Ed.): Music mediation and gender research: Lexicon and multimedia presentations. Hamburg University of Music and Theater, 2003ff. As of December 31, 2007 (mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de , accessed on: November 16, 2019).
  11. ↑ both in My Recollections of Brahms. In: The Musical Times. 1926 as well as in Reminiscences of Brahms. on the BBC. 1952.
  12. ↑ Imogen Fellinger : Brahms' piano pieces op.116-119. In: Friedhelm Krummacher, Michael Struck (Ed.): Johannes Brahms. Henle 1999, pp. 199–210, here pp. 200–201.
  13. ↑ Brahms at the piano. (PDF file; 4.18 MB). Concert program, Propiano Hamburg eV, 2008, p. 30.
  14. ↑ Ingrid Bodsch (ed.): The student - the master. Ilona Eibenschütz and Clara Schumann. Evidence of a woman's career around 1900. Bonn 2019, p. 211.
  15. ↑ Matthias Wendt, Kazuko Ozawa: The Student - The Master, p. 49.
  16. ↑ Ibid., P. 22.
personal data
SURNAME Eibenschütz, Ilona
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dernburg, Ilona; Derenburg, Ilona; Deerenburg, Ilona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Pest , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1967
Place of death London