Julia Menz
Julia Menz (born February 25, 1901 in Munich , † March 7, 1944 in Vienna ) was a pianist , harpsichordist and travel writer.
life and work
Julia Menz attended the Höhere Töchterschule in Munich and received piano lessons from Elisabeth Hüttner from 1911 to 1918. From autumn 1918 she studied at the Munich State Academy of Music with August Schmid-Lindner , Anton Beer-Walbrunn and Josef Pembaur , in whose piano master class she was accepted in autumn 1921 and which she completed in 1923.
As a harpsichordist, she celebrated her first major successes at the German Bach Festivals: Leipzig (1923), Stuttgart (1924) and Essen (1925). When Bach's concert for 4 harpsichords was performed in 1925 as part of the first Munich Bach Festival on the occasion of Bach's 175th anniversary of his death , Julia Menz played the Maendler Bach piano .
In the 1930s Julia Menz was considered one of the most famous harpsichordists. She has performed with the conductors Hermann Abendroth , Herbert von Karajan , Ludwig Landshoff, Karl Straube and Bruno Walter in Krakow, Lemberg, Paris, Warsaw, Vienna and Zurich. On June 14th and August 12th 1938 she gave a concert in Salzburg on Mozart's fortepiano .
Between 1926 and 1936, Menz also taught at the Cologne University of Music and the Rheinische Musikschule .
The composer and music theorist Wilhelm Maler dedicated his Concerto for Harpsichord or Piano and Chamber Orchestra (opus 10) to Julia Menz in 1927 . The sculptor Erich Kuhn (1890–1967), who was friends with Julia Menz through his wife, the pianist Lisa Kuhn, portrayed her with a bust .
Julia Menz had already contracted a lung disease in 1924, which is why she was admitted to the Hausstein sanatorium near Deggendorf in autumn 1943 . Julia Menz died on March 7, 1944 in the Lainz Hospital in Vienna, where she was buried on March 17, 1944 at Neustift Cemetery :
“ Julia Menz dies - after a long, very serious illness, the well-known pianist and harpsichordist Julia Menz died on March 7th in Vienna. After completing her studies with Schmid-Linder, Pembaur and Edwin Fischer, the artist, who was born in Munich, devoted herself to extensive concert and teaching activities. Inclination and talent led you early to take special care of early music and - in connection with it - to play the harpsichord. She worked as a teacher for several years in Cologne and in recent years in Kassel. For a while she was also a member of the Abendroth Chamber Orchestra in Cologne. The multi-talented artist, whose early departure is deeply regretted by all who valued her serious, clever nature: She also emerged as a writer with the India book "Maha djalan" ("The long way"), the one about the experience of a great journey to the distant Southeast told. "
As the daughter of the Munich architect Ludwig Menz, Julia Menz was the sister of the former Mary Wigman employee Meta Menz , who gave Julia Menz's estate to the Social Science Documentation of the Vienna Chamber of Labor in 1982 .
Publications
Sound recordings
- Johann Sebastian Bach : Praeambulum from Partita No. V, G major (BWV 829). Polydor 62822.
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue in A minor (BWV 947). Polydor 62822.
- Padre Rafael Angles: Aria in D minor . Polydor 62835.
- Johann Peter Kellner : Prelude in A major . Polydor 62835.
- Azzolino Bernardino della Ciaia : Toccata in G major. Polydor 62847.
- Domenico Scarlatti : Sonata in G minor . Deutsche Grammophon-Gesellschaft. Longo # 338.
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude (fr. Partita No. 5) and Fugue in A minor (BWV 947). Great Virtuosi of the Harpsichord. Volume I. GEMM CD 9124.
Books
- Maha djalan. West-east journey. With 71 pictures. Hamburg: Marion-von-Schröder-Verlag. 1940.
- Old ways of dancing and songs from different countries. Set and provided with a foreword by Julia Menz. Kassel: Bärenreiter 1940.
Audio sample
- Julia Menz plays Johann Sebastian Bach's Fugue in A minor (BWV 947) using the Mutch-Schramm harpsichord .
Photography and portrait bust
- For the time being the only available photograph of the pianist, harpsichordist and travel writer Julia Menz.
- Erich Kuhn's portrait bust Julia Menz, destroyed in the war .
literature
- Walter Thoene: Julia Menz. In: Karl Gustav Fellerer and Heinz Bremer: Rhenish musicians. Episode III. P. 57ff.
- R. Bach: The harpsichordist Julia Menz. In: The woman. Sheets of the Frankfurter Zeitung . No. VII of May 1, 1937.
- W. Pindler: Remembering Julia Menz. In: Berliner Börsenzeitung. March 28, 1944.
- Anton Würz : Julia Menz died. In: Bozner Tagblatt of March 24, 1944. p. 2.
- Andreas Weigel : Menz, Julia. In: Ilse Korotin (ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 2: I-O. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 2234f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Julia Menz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Julia Menz. Soloist, fortepiano, Munich. Index card of the Mozart Museum & Archive. International Mozarteum Foundation. Salzburg.
- ↑ Illustration of the portrait bust in: Kurt Karl Eberlein: The sculptor Erich Kuhn. In: The art. Monthly books for free and applied arts. Volume 73 (1935).
- ^ Anton Würz: Julia Menz died. In: Bozner Tagblatt of March 24, 1944. p. 2.
- ^ Gerhard Renner : The bequests in the libraries and museums of the Republic of Austria. Except for the Austrian National Library and the Austrian Theater Museum. Böhlau 1993. p. 263: "Partial estate, 1 meter: Notes, approx. 20 work manuscripts (lectures, the female element in the world ). Priority."
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Menz, Julia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Menz, Julia Mathilde |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist, harpsichordist and travel writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1944 |
| Place of death | Vienna |