Margarete Schweikert

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Margarete Schweikert (born February 16, 1887 in Karlsruhe , † March 13, 1957 in Karlsruhe) was a German composer , violinist , pianist , violin teacher and music critic. After their marriage in 1923, she called herself Margarete Voigt-Schweikert .

Life

Margarete Schweikert was the only child of her parents who were very interested in music, Friedrich and Luise née. Petry, who introduced them to the violin and piano. Her first piano teacher was Theodor Munz, at whose conservatory she received a broad musical education between 1898/99 and 1905/06: violin, piano, composition, and probably also singing. In 1905 and 1906 several songs and the 57th Psalm for soprano, choir and orchestra were performed in student concerts at the Munz Conservatory. At the Baden Conservatory, the forerunner of the Baden University of Music, she studied the subjects violin, music theory and composition. From the winter semester 1912/1913, she continued her studies privately in Stuttgart. Her teachers there were Karl Wendling (violin) and Joseph Haas , a student of Max Reger , (composition). Margarete Schweikert performed as a violinist in Karlsruhe from 1907, and throughout southern Germany from 1910. Her songs, which Schweikert himself accompanied on the piano, often played in concerts organized by herself or by colleagues. She campaigned for Max Reger's work early on; their concert programs were considered well thought out and demanding.

During the First World War, she represented a violin teacher who had been drafted into arms at the Grand Ducal Baden Teachers' Seminar. In the first half of the 1920s she organized her own series of chamber concerts, initially in her parents' apartment and later in different halls in Karlsruhe. In 1923 she married Hermann Voigt, in 1924 daughter Christiane was born. As a result, Margarete Voigt-Schweikert reduced her concert activities and limited herself to Karlsruhe and the surrounding area. At the beginning of the “Third Reich” , she was not given a work permit as a double- earner. During the Second World War, she briefly represented a colleague on the second violin in the Göttingen Orchestra. During this time she also resumed teaching. Several strokes of fate, including a serious illness, struck her in the final years of the war. Since the Karlsruhe GEDOK was re- established in 1950, Margarete Schweikert was a specialist adviser for music and from 1955 first chairwoman.

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Margarete Schweikert composed mainly songs. Her first attempts at the age of 12 were songs, as were the first works she performed in a school concert at the Munz Conservatory in Karlsruhe. Most of her around 160 songs were written between 1905 and 1920, 20 of which were printed between 1912 and 1920. In 1913 the fairy tale game for children The Frog King was premiered with a text by Erika Ebert, for which Margarete Schweikert wrote the music. In 1914, Der Froschkönig was repeated at the Grand Ducal Badischer Hoftheater in Karlsruhe with a patriotic Christmas prelude and aftermath. In addition, she created choral works, compositions for piano and organ, and chamber music for various ensembles with a clear focus on her instrument, the violin. Most of these works were created as part of her studies.

Margarete Schweikert's powerful, concentrated tonal language is rooted in late romantic harmony. In her songs, the voice and the piano form an inseparable musical unit. She chose her texts carefully, which she set to music with great sensitivity. In doing so, she managed to find an adequate musical expression for cheerful, even funny subjects as well as serious ones.

Margarete Schweikert wrote music reviews for various newspapers and magazines.

Margarete Schweikert's estate is in the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe.

Work editions

  • Margarete Schweikert: piano works. 2 volumes. Edited by: Daniela Steinbach, Bissersheim 1993.
  • Margarete Schweikert: Novellette for piano. Edited by: Jeannette La-Deur, Kassel 2012.
  • Margarete Schweikert: Serenade on the Sea for soprano, violin, English horn and piano. Edited by: Jeannette La-Deur, Kassel 2012.
  • Margarete Schweikert: Cloud songs and late songs for voice and piano. Edited by: Jeannette La-Deur, Kassel 2014.
  • Margarete Schweikert: Lieder to a girl for tenor voice and piano op.15. Ed .: Jeannette La-Deur, Wilhelmshaven 2014.
  • Margarete Schweikert: Romance for violoncello (violin / viola) and piano. Edited by: Jeannette La-Deur, Kassel 2015.
  • Margarete Schweikert: In the bitter human land op. 9 for tenor voice and piano. Edited by: Jeannette La-Deur, Wilhelmshaven 2015.
  • Margarete Schweikert: Spring songs op. 12 for high voice and piano. Ed .: Jeannette La-Deur, Wilhelmshaven 2016.
  • Margarete Schweikert: Four songs based on poems by Martha Kropp. Ed .: Jeannette La-Deur, Wilhelmshaven 2016.
  • Margarete Schweikert: "Selected Works", Volume 1: Four song cycles for high voice and piano: Im bitteren Menschenland op.9 / Songs to a girl op.15 / Spring songs op. 12 / Four songs based on poems by Martha Kropp, critical review , 120 pages, Ed .: Jeannette La-Deur, Wilhelmshaven 2016.
  • Margarete Schweikert: Lobe den Herrn, Psalm 104 op.4, for soprano, violin and piano, Ed .: Jeannette La-Deur, Kassel 2017.
  • Margarete Schweikert: Four Flower Songs for Voice and Piano, Ed .: Jeannette La-Deur, Kassel 2019.
  • Margarete Schweikert: Twelve Songs for Medium Voice and Piano Volume I, Ed .: Jeannette La-Deur, Wilhelmshaven 2019.
  • Margarete Schweikert: Nine songs for medium voice and piano Volume II, Ed .: Jeannette La-Deur, Wilhelmshaven 2019.
  • Margarete Schweikert: Minuet in the old style for violin and piano, Ed .: Jeannette La-Deur, Kassel 2019.

Discography

  • Margarete Schweikert: "Three Intermezzi" and "Short Story". In: Fascination of Women's Music. Daniela Steinbach plays piano works by Luise Adolpha Le Beau, Ilse Fromm-Michaels, Augusta Holmès, Marianna Martinez and others Danae Discs
  • Margarete Schweikert: Scherzando in G minor. In: Piano music from Karlsruhe female composers. Sontraud Speidel, piano. Hoepfner Classics in the Antes Edition.
  • Margrete Schweikert: songs and chamber music. With Bernhard Berchtold (tenor), Berit Barfred-Jensen (soprano), Jeannette La-Deur (piano and artistic project management), Annelie Groth (violin), Franziska Dürr (viola), Ilona Steinheimer (cor anglais). Salto Records International, SAL 7019
  • Margarete Schweikert: In the bitter human land. Songs for tenor and piano. With Bernhard Berchtold (tenor) and Jeannette La-Deur (piano and artistic project management). Florian Noetzel Verlag "Ars Musica", AM 7696, reissued by TYXart 2018, TXA 16086
  • Margarete Schweikert: Lost Love - Lost Love. Songs for soprano and baritone based on poems by Goethe, Falke, Kropp, Schüler, Stona and others With Diana Tomsche (soprano), Armin Kolarczyk (baritone) and Jeannette La-Deur (piano and artistic project management). TYXart 2018, TXA 16085

literature

  • Michael Gerhard Kaufmann: Margarete Schweikert - protagonist of Regerscher Musik in Karlsruhe . In: In search of the work: Max Reger - his work - his collection. Ed .: Susanne Popp and Susanne Shigihara, Karlsruhe 1998.
  • Michael Gerhard Kaufmann: "... I'd rather have bitten off my tongue before I told Richard Strauss that I also compose ..." Margarete Schweikert (1887–1957) in Karlsruhe . In: Georg Günther, Reiner Nägele (Ed.): Music in Baden-Württemberg - Yearbook 2001, Volume 8, Stuttgart and Weimar 2001.
  • Michael Gerhard Kaufmann: Songs to a Girl - Margarete Schweikert (1887-1957) in Karlsruhe . In: Martina Rebmann, Reiner Nägele (Ed.): Klangwelten: Lebenswelten. Composers in Southwest Germany, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart 2004.
  • Martina Rebmann: The Karlsruhe composer Margarete Schweikert (1887-1957) . In: Vivavoce. Archive news of the International Working Group on Women and Music, Frankfurt am Main, 78, 2001.
  • Almut Ochsmann: The Reger interpreter Margarete Schweikert . In: Messages from the Max Reger Institute 21, Karlsruhe 2012.
  • Birgitta Schmid: Margarete Schweikert (1887-1957). Composer and chamber musician . In: Ann-Katrin Zimmermann (Hg): Music in Baden-Württemberg - Yearbook 2013, Volume 20, Munich 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Schweikert, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voigt-Schweikert, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, violinist, pianist, violin teacher and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1957
Place of death Karlsruhe