Mariane Bargiel

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Mariane Bargiel , born Wieck, b. Tromlitz (born May 17, 1797 in Greiz ; † March 10, 1872 in Berlin ) was a German pianist, singer ( soprano ), piano teacher and the mother of Clara Schumann (1819-1896).

Life

Childhood and musical education

Mariane Tromlitz was the first-born daughter of the cantor, music teacher and composer George Christian Gotthold Tromlitz (1765–1825) and his wife Christiana Friederica geb. Carl (1766-1830). The following were born as siblings: Georg Wilhelm Tromlitz (1799–1801) and Emilie (1802–1885) married Carl. Mariane's grandfather was the famous flute virtuoso and flute maker Johann Georg Tromlitz (1725–1805). Mariane received her first musical training from her father, later she became a student of Friedrich Wieck (1785–1873). Mariane Tromlitz gave her first public concert at the age of 15 on March 10, 1813 in the community center in Plauen ; The piano quartet of Mozart's student Anton Eberl (1765–1807) was performed.

Leipzig

Mariane married her teacher Friedrich Wieck in Oberlosa / Vogtland on June 23, 1816 , and they lived together in Leipzig . During the first years of marriage, Mariane performed successfully as a pianist and singer and, in addition to her concert activities, also worked as a piano teacher. The marriage to Friedrich Wieck had five children: Adelheid (1817–1819), Clara Josephine (1819–1896), Alwin (1821–1885), Gustav (1823–1884) and Victor (1824–1826).

After Mariane Friedrich Wieck left in May 1824 due to a marriage crisis, the divorce followed on January 22, 1825. First, in 1824, she returned to her parents in Plauen with four and a half year old Clara and three month old Victor. According to the legal situation at the time, the father received custody of the children; so that Clara could only stay with her mother until she was five and from September 17, 1824 lived again with her father Friedrich Wieck in Leipzig. The fact that Mariane Wieck divorced her husband, which was a scandal at the time, and gave up custody of her children with a heavy heart, shows how stressful she must have felt about her marriage to Friedrich Wieck. As long as Mariane still lived in Leipzig, she could visit her children regularly.

Berlin

In August 1825 Mariane married the piano and singing teacher Adolph Bargiel (1783–1841), with whom she moved to Berlin in 1826. In Berlin, Adolph Bargiel took over the management of the musical academy founded by Johann Bernhard Logier , where Mariane Bargiel also taught. In 1827 she was also listed as a soprano in the membership directory of the Berliner Singakademie , and in 1829 as a soloist. However, the Bargiel Academy had to be closed in 1830, as the number of pupils and thus income had fallen sharply due to the cholera epidemic in Berlin. In 1836 Adolph Bargiel suffered a stroke and died after a long illness in 1841. During this time, Mariane Bargiel cared for her sick husband and from then on earned her family support by working as a piano teacher. The marriage with Adolph Bargiel had four children: Woldemar (1828-1897), Eugen (1830-1907), Cäcilie (1832-1910) and Clementine (1835-1869).

Clara Wieck visited her mother Mariane for the first time in Berlin in 1835 on her return trip on a concert tour, in the following years Clara and Mariane grew closer again (from 1826 to 1835 they mainly had mail contact). From the beginning of October 1839 to the beginning of June 1840, Clara Wieck lived with her mother in Berlin because of the conflict with her father Friedrich Wieck, who tried to prevent her marriage to Robert Schumann by all means. Mariane Bargiel accompanied Clara on a concert tour to Stettin in November 1839 and on a tour of northern Germany in February 1840 (including Hamburg and Bremen ).

In contrast to Friedrich Wieck, Mariane Bargiel supported her daughter's marriage plans and got on very well with Robert Schumann. He visited her in Berlin in the summer of 1839 and asked her for her written consent to marry, which she gladly gave him. In 1840 Robert Schumann sent Mariane Bargiel a copy of his song "Mondnacht" for her birthday . During her marriage to Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann was again in frequent correspondence with her mother, but Mariane also visited her daughter several times in Leipzig. In 1854, after Schumann attempted suicide, Mariane went to Düsseldorf without hesitation to support Clara Schumann. In the summer of 1854 Mariane also took in her granddaughter Julie in Berlin until 1857. In 1867, her grandchildren Ludwig and Ferdinand Schumann lived with her for a few months.

Mariane Bargiel worked as a piano teacher in Berlin and worked as a chorus and soloist in the Stern'schen Gesangverein. She died at the age of 74 on March 10, 1872 in Berlin.

literature

  • Elisabeth Schmiedel u. Joachim Draheim: A family of musicians in the 19th century: Marianne Bargiel, Clara Schumann, Woldemar Bargiel in letters and documents , 2 volumes, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-87397-343-5
  • Hanna Bergmann: Bargiel, Marianne, b. Tromlitz, m. Wieck, married. Bargiel in the online lexicon of European female instrumentalists of the 18th and 19th centuries. Sophie Drinker Institute 2009
  • Schumann-Briefedition , Series I, Vol. 3: Family letter exchange (Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with the Bargiel family), ed. v. Eberhard Möller. Cologne 2011
  • Beatrix Borchard: Clara Schumann - Music as a way of life. New sources - different spellings . Hildesheim u. a .: Georg Olms Verlag 2019, especially from p. 73 and from p. 153

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hanna Bergmann: Bargiel, Marianne, born. Tromlitz, m. Wieck, married. Bargiel in the online lexicon of European female instrumentalists of the 18th and 19th centuries. Sophie Drinker Institute 2009, accessed November 25, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Schumann portal: Mariane Wieck-Bargiel born. Tromlitz (1797–1872), mother of Clara Schumann , accessed on November 25, 2019
  3. ↑ Monica Steegmann: Clara Schumann . 3rd edition Leipzig 2016, pp. 10–11.
  4. ↑ Elisabeth Schmiedel and Joachim Draheim: A family of musicians in the 19th century: Marianne Bargiel, Clara Schumann, Woldemar Bargiel in letters and documents , Volume 1, Munich [among others] 2007, p. 19.
  5. ↑ Elisabeth Schmiedel and Joachim Draheim: A family of musicians in the 19th century: Marianne Bargiel, Clara Schumann, Woldemar Bargiel in letters and documents , Volume 1, Munich [among others] 2007, p. 24.
  6. ^ Berthold Litzmann: Clara Schumann. An artist's life. According to diaries and letters , 1st volume: Girls' years 1819–1840. 8th edition. Leipzig 1925, pp. 374–376 and pp. 393–410.
  7. ↑ Elisabeth Schmiedel and Joachim Draheim: A family of musicians in the 19th century: Marianne Bargiel, Clara Schumann, Woldemar Bargiel in letters and documents , Volume 1, Munich [among others] 2007, pp. 29–33.
  8. ↑ Elisabeth Schmiedel and Joachim Draheim: A family of musicians in the 19th century: Marianne Bargiel, Clara Schumann, Woldemar Bargiel in letters and documents , Volume 1, Munich [among others] 2007, p. 37.
  9. ↑ Thomas Synofzik: "Clara Schumann and her children", in: Leipziger Blätter - special edition : Clara Schumann. Ein Künstlerinnenleben, Leipzig 2019, pp. 52–57, here p. 54; Beatrix Borchard, Clara Schumann. Music as a way of life . Hildesheim [et al.] 2019, pp. 167–171.
  10. ↑ Schumann-Briefedition , Series I, Vol. 3: Familienbriefwechsel (Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with the Bargiel family), ed. v. Eberhard Möller. Cologne 2011, p. 31.
personal data
SURNAME Bargiel, Mariane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tromlitz, Mariane (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist, singer (soprano), piano teacher and the mother of Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Greiz
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1872
Place of death Berlin