Maria Calvelli-Adorno
Maria Barbara Calvelli-Adorno della Piana (born September 30, 1865 in Bockenheim ; † February 23, 1952 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a singer and pianist of Corsican- Italian origin. She was the mother of Theodor W. Adorno .
Life
Calvelli-Adorno was born as the first of two daughters (Maria and Agathe) and a surviving son (Louis) of the former Corsican officer Jean François Calvelli in Bockenheim - a suburb of the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main until 1895 . Her father had settled there after numerous changes of location in France, Italy and Spain in 1859/60 as a penniless fencing master . The additions to his name - "Adorno" and "della Piana" - Calvelli had taken on during his changeable wandering life.
Maria Calvelli-Adorno had made a name for herself as a singer before her later marriage (in July 1898) to the wine merchant Oscar Wiesengrund, Theodor Adorno's father. Engagements at the Hof Opera Theater in Vienna and at the city theaters in Cologne and Riga are evidence of this . Her younger sister Agathe lived with her in the household of the new Wiesengrund family from the start. Both sisters - Adorno called them the "two mothers" - had a great influence on Adorno's musical education.
literature
- A son from a good family. In: Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Ed.): Research Frankfurt . Issue 3-4, 2003, pp. 44-48
- Stefan Müller-Doohm: Adorno. A biography . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2005, pp. 15–43.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Müller-Doohm, Stefan. Adorno: A Biography . John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Calvelli-Adorno, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Calvelli-Adorno della Piana, Maria Barbara; Wiesengrund, Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Singer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bockenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1952 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |