Louise Japha

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Louise Japha

Louise Japha (also Langhans-Japha ; born February 2, 1826 in Hamburg ; † October 13, 1910 in Wiesbaden ) was a pianist and composer .

Life

Louise Japha grew up in Hamburg, where she learned to play the piano with Fritz Warendorf and to compose with Georg August Groß and Friedrich Wilhelm Grund . She gave her first concert on February 10, 1838 in the Apollo Hall there. To practice the piano, she went to the Schröder piano factory in Katharinenstrasse, where she also met the young Johannes Brahms , practiced and played with him and discussed his first compositions. A friendly relationship developed between Louise Japha and Brahms, who was seven years her junior, and lasted for many years. Out of gratitude Brahms dedicated one of his earliest works to Louise and her sister Minna (Op. 6: 6 chants).

At the invitation of Clara Schumann , Louise Japha moved with her sister to Düsseldorf in 1853 to complete her musical studies with the Schumanns. There she met Johannes Brahms again.

In 1858 Louise Japha married the composer and music writer Wilhelm Langhans , with whom she performed together. In Paris in particular, she was a celebrated pianist from 1863 to 1869. In 1868 she performed at the premiere of Brahms' piano quintet in F minor, Op. 34 with; Franz Liszt dedicated his Beethoven Cantata No. 1 to her (cantata for the unveiling of the Beethoven monument on Bonn's Münsterplatz , 1845); she associated with Stephen Heller , François-Auguste Gevaert , Camille Saint-Saëns , César Franck and Gioachino Rossini . In 1874 the marriage with Wilhelm Langhans was divorced again. That year she also settled in Wiesbaden.

She wrote an opera, composed string quartets, piano pieces and songs - but not all works were published.

Her younger sister Meta was married to the violinist George Japha .

literature

  • Lyle G. Wilson: A dictionary of pianists . Robert Hale, London 1985.
  • Aaron I. Cohen: International encyclopedia of women composers . RR Bowker, New York 1981.
  • Jozef Robijns, Miep Zijlstra: Algemene muziek enciclopedie . De Haan, Haarlem 1979.
  • Paul Frank; Wilhelm Altmann : Brief Tonkünstler Lexicon: for musicians and friends of music . Gustav Bosse, Regensburg 1936.
  • Arthur Elson: Woman's Work in Music . LC Page, Boston 1903. www.archive.org
  • Theodore Baker: Biographical dictionary of musicians . G. Schirmer, New York 1900. www.archive.org
  • James Duff Brown: Biographical dictionary of musicians. A. Gardner, Paisley, Scotland 1900. www.archive.org
  • Josef Sittard: History of music and concerts in Hamburg. From the 14th century to the present . AC Rehor, Altona 1890. www.archive.org
  • Hubert Kolland:  Langhans, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 603 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Max Kalbeck: Johannes Brahms . 4th edition, Berlin: German Brahms Society, 1921.
  2. ^ Paul Joseph Bishop: The Viola in Brahms' Chamber Music , Dissertation for Master of Music, Department of Theory, Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, August 1947.
  3. ↑ a b Annkatrin Babbe: Langhans, Louise in the instrumentalist lexicon ( memento of the original from November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 24, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sophie-drinker-institut.de
  4. ^ Hermann Mendel: Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon , entry Langhans, Wilhelm, in Vol. 6, Berlin: Verlag von Robert Oppenheim, 1876.
personal data
SURNAME Japha, Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langhans-Japha, Louise; Langhans, Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1910
Place of death Wiesbaden