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Lidy Steche , b. Angermann, (* 1805 in Weimar , † 1878 in Leipzig ) was a German concert singer and salonnière in Leipzig and was among the circle of friends around Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt .
Life
The daughter of the surgeon and Grand Ducal Saxony-Weimar court dentist Christian Friedrich Angermann performed as a concert singer at the Leipzig Gewandhaus before she married the lawyer Albert Steche, to whom she bore five children. Her sons include the art historian Richard Steche , the manufacturer Otto Steche and Maximilian Steche (1830–1867).
In 1840 Lidy Steche founded a choir in Leipzig with which she regularly performed operas and motets . In the hall of the Leipzig Lodge Minerva zu den Drei Palmen she performed Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin before the actual premiere at the Leipzig Theater . The Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , founded by Robert Schumann , wrote: On December 18th, Ms. Lidy Steche, mentioned several times in these papers as a tireless and enthusiastic art lover, held a performance of Lohengrin on the piano in front of an invited audience in the hall of the Minerva Lodge. This was the first performance of the entire work in Leipzig, and Frau Steche has earned the merit of having made a large part of the musical audience so familiar with Wagner's work of art that the imminent performance in the theater will give them the benefit of them Samples will give those involved all the more enjoyment. The performance as a whole was a successful one, which deserves all the more recognition since the solos as well as the choirs were for the most part performed by amateurs.
Lidy Steche regularly invited to musical matinees . Such important contemporaries as the composers Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Hector Berlioz , Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms , Bedřich Smetana , Clara and Robert Schumann, the singers Henriette Sontag , Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient and the violinist Joseph Joachim frequented her house . They all immortalized themselves with little compositions or sayings in Lidy Steche's guest books.
Franz Liszt was one of her close friends , with whom she corresponded and whom she visited several times in Weimar between 1853 and 1857 . She kept a meticulous diary of the events in the Liszt house.
literature
- Christoph Meixner: "The concert where I was surprised to have Andersen sitting very close to me". Lidy Steche's memories of September 5, 1857 (Goethe and Schiller Festival, Weimar). In: Christoph Stölzl and Wolfram Huschke (eds.): Réminiscences à Liszt Weimar 2011. Weimar 2011, pp. 169–174.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Volume 39, July – December 1853, p. 281
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In 2011, an album and a diary were on permanent loan from a descendant to the University Archive / Thuringian State Music Archive at the Liszt School of Music Weimar . (Anneliese Peters: Flirt stories with Franz Liszt ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Report on Lidy Steche's diaries in the Dithmarscher Landeszeitung , August 9, 2011.)
Another album is in the Leipzig City History Museum under Inventory number: A / 2174/2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pierce, Lidy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Angermann, Lidy (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German concert singer and salonnière |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1878 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |