Lina Ramann

Lina Ramann (based on a portrait photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl )

Karolina Rosina Friederike Ramann (born June 24, 1833 in Mainstockheim , † March 30, 1912 in Munich ) was a German music teacher and writer. She gained importance as the founder of a music institute, the author of piano pedagogical works and the biographer of Franz Liszt .

Life

Ramann was born in the Lower Franconian town of Mainstockheim. The father Christian Heinrich Ramann was a "music-interested wine merchant"; the mother Friederika Henriette Christina Ramann, b. Möhring, knew how to tell the children "about noble, virtuous, strong people, about friendship, about truthfulness and love". Lina received music lessons from a village school teacher and learned to play the piano largely self-taught . When she was 17 years old, the family moved to Leipzig . Here Lina Ramann received piano lessons from the pianist Lysinka Brendel , student of John Fields and wife of the music writer Franz Brendel . The Brendel house was the center of musical Leipzig, especially the “ New Germans ”; but also the women's rights activist Louise Otto-Peters , with whom Ramann was later in contact, frequented here.

Just three years later, in 1853, Ramann moved to Gera and tried to make a living as a piano teacher there. Another three years later, with the consent and financial support of her parents, a friend who was married there accompanied her to the USA . She made a living as a music teacher near Philadelphia : she rode from farm to farm, taught instruments such as piano, violin and trombone , composed music for everyday use , played the organ and conducted church choirs . Although she loved these challenges, the exertion became too great and in 1858 she returned to Germany.

In Glückstadt in Holstein , where her parents now lived, she opened a “music institute” for “young women who want to make music their job in life”. In the 24-year-old Ida Volckmann, born in Insterburg in East Prussia in 1838 , trained among others with Robert Papperitz and Louis Plaidy in Leipzig, the 28-year-old Lina Ramann found a loyal colleague and companion - a circumstance that “was worth and Gave meaning ”.

Because of the German-Danish War , the two closed the institute, moved to Nuremberg and opened the "Ramann-Volkmann'sche Musikschule" there in 1865, now also for male students. After teething problems, the music school gained a reputation far beyond Nuremberg. In 1868, with the publication From the Present , a collection of lectures, Ramann began his journalistic career. In 1890 Ramann and Volckmann transferred the music school to the Liszt student August Göllerich and the conductor Theodor Schmidt and retired to Munich , where Ramann died in 1912 and Volckmann in 1922.

Music pedagogical work

In the elementary area, Ramann built “on three basic pillars in particular: group lessons in classes, the integration of music history into training and the promotion of contemporary music”.

“The 'General Musical Education and Teaching' was created in 1867/69 and emerged from practice. When she then embarked on a new course in the endeavor: to claim the humane-educational idea also for general music and piano lessons, to proclaim it as a guiding principle in this area for youth lessons and to shape his teaching method according to it , she stayed despite the favorable reception on the part of the press and the approval of authorities such as Ms. Brendel, Th. Kullak, L. Köhler and later Franz Liszt, to a certain extent an individual phenomenon that could only conquer their field of work step by step. "

- Lina Ramann

Ramann's impulses continue to have an effect today, for example in the Kestenberg reforms of the school and music school system, in adult education or in the Rudolf Steiner schools.

Artistic friendship with Franz Liszt

In 1859, Franz Brendel introduced Liszt and Ramann to one another at the Tonkünstler Assembly in Leipzig. Ramann's Technical Studies for Pianoforte appeared in 1860 , dedicated to “Dr. Franz Liszt, the founder of a new era of piano playing ”. In the following year Liszt wrote to Ramann that this work deserved "the most laudatory recognition of all experts". Finally, on August 6, 1873, Liszt was the first guest of Ramann and Volckmann in Nuremberg. A reception by the students of the music school was followed by piano play, a walk, an evening meal and professional and personal discussions.

“My bond in work and life with Ida attracted many beautiful words to his lips. Several times he called it 'a poetry of life'. "

- Lina Ramann

Up until Liszt's death in 1886 there were numerous reciprocal visits to Weimar and Nuremberg; In 1876 Ramann - entrusted with the writing of Liszt's biography - also visited his partner Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein in Rome . Several writings were the fruit of these years. A study on the oratorio Christ (1874) made the start, followed by the three-volume, 1400-page authorized biography of Franz Liszt as an artist and man (1880–1894) and the study of Franz Liszt as a psalmist and the earlier masters (1886). The Lisztiana , with a foreword by the author from 1895 and a preface by the editor from 1926, were not published by Schott Music until 1983 . The Liszt Pedagogy , first published in 1902, was included in the new Liszt edition of Editio Musica Budapest and Bärenreiter-Verlag in the form of footnotes in 1970–1985 and published as a reprint in 1986 by the original publisher Breitkopf & Härtel ; Among the contributors were August Stradal , August Göllerich , Heinrich Porges and Ida Volckmann, Berthold Kellermann and Auguste Rennebaum but also a former pupil and a former pupil of the "Ramann-Volkmann'schen Musikschule" who then studied with Liszt. In addition, Ramann devoted himself to the translation and editing of Liszt's collected writings (1880–1883).

Works

Fonts

• From the present. Essays on music. For music lovers . Schmid, Nuremberg and Munich 1868.
• Music as an object of instruction and education. Lectures to establish a general music education for artists, educators and music lovers . Merseburger, Leipzig 1868. Reprint with an introduction by Eva Rieger: MPZ, Frankfurt am Main 1986.
• Bach and Handel. A monograph. Lectures given at the Ramann Volkmann Music School in Nuremberg in the winter of 1866 . Weissbach, Leipzig 1869.
• General musical upbringing and teaching of the youth together with a special teaching method for the elementary levels of piano playing for music schools and music teachers in general . Weissbach, Leipzig 1870. Changed 2nd edition: Schmidt & Günther, Leipzig 1898.
• Franz Liszt's oratorio Christ. A study as a contribution to the contemporary and music-historical position of the same. With music examples and the text of the work . Kühn, Weimar 1874. Modified 3rd edition: Kahnt, Leipzig 1881.
• Franz Liszt as artist and person ( Volume 1 1811–1840, Volume 2/1 1841–1847, Volume 2/2 1848–1886). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1880–1894.
• Franz Liszt as a psalmist and the former masters . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1886.
• Listz pedagogy. Piano compositions by Franz Liszt together with unedited changes, additions and cadences according to the master's teachings, pedagogically glossed . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1902. Reprint with a foreword by Alfred Brendel : Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1986, ISBN 3-7651-0223-7 .
• Lisztiana. Memories of Franz Liszt in diary sheets, letters and documents from the years 1873–1886 / 87 , edited by Arthur Seidl, rev. by Friedrich Schnapp, Schott, Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-7957-1782-5 .
• Numerous articles in periodicals such as Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and Der Klavierlehrer .

Music

• Technical studies for pianoforte (2 booklets). Böhme, Hamburg 1860.
• Children's muse. Small piano pieces (together with Ida Volckmann, 2 booklets). Rieter-Biedermann, Winterthur and Leipzig 1867.
• First elementary level of piano playing. Based on folk and children's songs, taking into account group lessons for children from 7-10 years (together with Ida Volckmann, 2 booklets). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig undated
• Second elementary level of piano playing (together with Ida Volckmann, volume 1 and volume 2 ). Schmid, Nuremberg and Munich 1868.
• Four sonatinas for use in piano lessons . Kahnt, Leipzig undated
• Plan of the technique of piano playing in 3 parts (“Elementary School” in 6 books, “Middle School” in 3 books, “Virtuosity School” in 3 books). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig undated

Information base

literature

• Marie Ille-Beeg: Lina Ramann. Life picture of an important woman in the field of music . Korn, Nuremberg 1914.

Web links

• Lina Ramann in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO) .
• Lina Ramann in the Manskopf portrait collection at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .
• Lina Ramann on Lisztomania. The Franz Liszt Compendium . Website of a 2011 musicology seminar at Florida State University , as of April 24, 2018 (English).
• Markus Gärtner: Ramann, Lina . In: Freia Hoffmann (Ed.): Instrumentalist Lexicon . Website of the Sophie Drinker Institute for Musicological Women and Gender Studies, as of January 25, 2018.
• Freia Hoffmann: Volkmann, Ida . In: Freia Hoffmann (Ed.): Instrumentalist Lexicon . Website of the Sophie Drinker Institute for Musicological Women and Gender Studies, as of January 25, 2018.
• Helga Korteneck: Karoline Ramann - A life for music. Life picture of an important, but almost forgotten Mainstockheimerin . Website of the municipality of Mainstockheim , PDF file, as of January 25, 2018.
• Verena Liu: Ida Volckmann . In: Beatrix Borchard and Nina Noeske (eds.): MUGI - Music and Gender on the Internet . Website of the University of Music and Theater Hamburg , as of May 2, 2019, archived on web.archive.org, as of November 3, 2019.
• Eva Rieger : Lina Ramann . In: Beatrix Borchard and Nina Noeske (eds.): MUGI - Music and Gender on the Internet . Website of the University of Music and Theater Hamburg, as of February 6, 2019, archived on web.archive.org, as of November 3, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Lina Ramann, half-length portrait in the Manskopf portrait collection, as of January 25, 2018.
2. ↑ Bosl's Bavarian biography , The Music in Past and Present (2003 edition), the instrumentalist lexicon and an essay by Helga Korteneck have June 24th as their birthday, other reference works mention May 24th or July 24th. In Lina Ramann: Lisztiana (see “Writings”), chapter “1876”, p. 81, June 24th is confirmed with the following date line: “On June 24th, my 43rd birthday.”
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Markus Gärtner: Ramann, Lina (see “Weblinks”).
4. ↑ Lina Ramann: Lisztiana (see "Writings"), p. 148.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Helga Korteneck: Karoline Ramann (see “Weblinks”).
6. ^ Eva Rieger: Lina Ramann (see "Weblinks").
7. ↑ Marie Ille-Beeg: Lina Ramann (see “Literature”), p. 14, quoted from Verena Liu: Ida Volckmann (see “Weblinks”).
8. ↑ Verena Liu: Ida Volckmann (see “Weblinks”).
9. ↑ Lina Ramann: General musical education and teaching . Modified 2nd edition (see “Writings”), p. 25, quoted from Martin Widmaier: Zur Systemdynamik des Ürgen. Differential learning on the piano . Schott, Mainz 2016, ISBN 978-3-7957-0951-8 , p. 99.
10. ^ Karl Bosl (Ed.): Bosls Bavarian Biography. Supplementary volume. 1000 personalities from 15 centuries . Pustet, Regensburg 1988, ISBN 3-7917-1153-9 , p. 155, entry " Ramann, Lina, music pedagogue ".
11. ↑ Lina Ramann: Lisztiana , p. 17.
12. ↑ Lina Ramann: Lisztiana , p. 25.