Maria Carolina Benda

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Maria Carolina Benda (married Wolf, * 1742 in Potsdam (baptized on December 27, 1742 ), † August 2, 1820 in Weimar ) was a singer, pianist, composer and chamber singer at the court of Duchess Anna Amalia von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach .

Life

Maria Carolina Benda was born in Potsdam in 1742 as the second of eight children and was baptized on December 27 of the same year in the Berlin Cathedral in Berlin . She was the daughter of the violinist and composer Franz Benda . Her mother was Franziska Louise Eleonore Benda (née Stephanie), who served as maid of the Margravine Wilhelmine von Bayreuth .

Due to the early death of her mother in 1758, it is assumed that Maria Carolina, together with her older sister Wilhelmine Louise Dorothea, took over the upbringing of their four younger siblings Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich , Carl Hermann Heinrich , Charlotte Henriette Sophie and Bernhardine Juliane . The other two siblings Johann Christian Gottlieb and Luise Wilhelmine Amalia died at an early age.

Maria C. Wolf 1776 as Baroness von Forstheim , Liebhabertheater Weimar, etching by Georg Melchior Kraus

Maria Carolina received musical training in singing and playing the piano from her father, whom she was allowed to accompany on a “visiting and art trip” to Gotha , Weimar and Rudolstadt in 1761 at the age of 18 . An important event on this trip was the marriage between Franz Benda and his sister-in-law Caroline Wilhelmine Stephanie on August 13, 1761. Caroline Wilhelmine served Anna Amalia von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach as maid of honor since she was five years old. After the wedding she passed her service as maid of honor to her nieces and from then on to stepdaughters Maria Carolina and Wilhelmine Louise Dorothea. Maria Carolina is also engaged as a chamber singer by the Duchess Anna Amalia .

At the court of the Duchess of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, Maria Carolina met the court conductor, pianist and composer Ernst Wilhelm Wolf , whom she married on August 28, 1770. Anna Amalia paid for the wedding because she wanted to keep the two artists in Weimar .

Maria Carolina was a member of the "Liebhabertheater", which was built in 1775 at the court of the Duchess and was directed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . She appeared as an actress in various stage plays:

Maria Carolina died on August 2, 1820, 28 years after her husband Ernst Wilhelm Wolf . She lived in Weimar until her death.

See also

Works

  • To the rose . In: Der Teutsche Merkur . 1779, 3rd quarter
  • The rose . In: Der Teutsche Merkur . 1779, 4th quarter
  • “The sun sinks more brilliantly.” In: Der Teutsche Merkur 1785, 4th quarter.
  • Poor Suschen's dream: "I dreamed like it was at midnight ..." ( text writer : Gottfried August Bürger ). In: Friedrich Karl von Erlach (Hrsg.): Die Volkslieder der Deutschen: a complete collection of the excellent German folk songs from the middle of the fifteenth to the first half of the nineteenth century. Vol. 5. Hoff, Mannheim 1836, pp. 44-45.

literature

  • Vera Grützner: Musician in Brandenburg from the 16th century to the present. Jaron, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89773-507-5 .
  • Barbara Garvey Jackson: Say can you deny me: A guide to surviving music by women from the 16th through the 18th centuries. University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, AR 1994, ISBN 1-55728-303-6 .
  • Benda, Maria Carolina. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 2 (Bagatti - Bizet). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1112-8 , Sp. 1070 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Franz Lorenz: The Benda family of musicians. Volume 1: Franz Benda . Wilhelm de Gruyter, Berlin 1967, pp. 81-85.
  • Eva Weissweiler: Female composers from the Middle Ages to the present: A history of culture and impact in biographies and work examples. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-30726-9 .
  • Charlotte Marlo Werner: Goethe's Duchess Anna Amalia: Princess between Rococo and Revolution. Droste, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-7700-1065-5 .
  • Maria Carolina Benda (1742 to 1820) - Juliane Bernhardine Benda (1752 to 1783): singers, pianists, composers. In: Jeanette Toussaint: Between tradition and obstinacy: Life paths of Potsdam women from the 18th to the 20th century. Autonomes Frauenzentrum, Potsdam 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027038-3 , pp. 29-38.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jeanette Toussaint: Between tradition and obstinacy. 2009, p. 30.
  2. ↑ Franz Lorenz: The Benda family of musicians. 1967, p. 80.
  3. ^ A b Franz Lorenz: The Benda family of musicians. 1967, p. 81.
  4. ^ Charlotte Marlo Werner: Goethe's Duchess Anna Amalia. 1996, p. 27.
  5. ^ Charlotte Marlo Werner: Goethe's Duchess Anna Amalia. 1996, p. 84.
  6. ^ Charlotte Marlo Werner: Goethe's Duchess Anna Amalia. 1996, p. 88.
  7. ↑ Franz Lorenz: The Benda family of musicians. 1967, p. 84.
  8. ^ Jeanette Toussaint: Between tradition and obstinacy. 2009, p. 38.
  9. ↑ Barbara Garvey Jackson: Say can you deny me. 2004, p. 382.
personal data
SURNAME Benda, Maria Carolina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Maria Carolina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Singer, pianist, composer and chamber singer at the court of Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach
DATE OF BIRTH baptized December 27, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1820
Place of death Weimar