Marie Soldat-Röger

Marie Ernestine Soldat-Röger , b. Soldier (* 25. March 1863 in Geidorf in Graz , † thirtieth September 1955 in Graz) was a violin - virtuoso and the first Austrian woman who conquered the concert halls of Europe.

Life

Her mother Franziska Soldat geb. Baldauf was a tailor, his father Julius was a soldier (1834–1876) organist and piano teacher. He also gave her first piano lessons and later sent her to the Buwa Music School in Graz. From 1871 she learned to play the violin and appeared in public for the first time in 1874.

Her music theory teacher from Graz, Brahms friend Ferdinand Thieriot , arranged a meeting with Brahms in Pörtschach in the summer of 1878 . He recommended her to Joseph Joachim in Berlin . She lived there from 1879 to 1889, studied at the Royal University of Music and met Clara Schumann . For a long time she was the only woman to play Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major op.77.

In 1887 she founded her first own women's string quartet , and in 1894 a second in Vienna.

In 1889 she married the police superintendent Wilhelm Röger and moved to Vienna with him . In 1890 their only son Joseph Röger was born. Extensive concert tours took her mainly through the German Empire and England . She performed as a soloist until 1913, and in 1926 she made her first record. She later taught students, and from 1936 she withdrew from public musical life. She died on September 30, 1955 at the age of 92 in Graz.

literature

Spemann's "Golden Book of Music", Berlin / Stuttgart 1909, Kro. 1201-1205
Neue Musikische Presse 8, 1899, No. 14, April 2, 1899, pp. 6/7, Vienna
B. Kühnen: The violin was her life. Portrait of three female violinists. Vienna 2000

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personal data
SURNAME	Soldat-Röger, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Soldier, Maria Ernestine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian violin virtuoso
DATE OF BIRTH	March 25, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Graz
DATE OF DEATH	September 30, 1955
Place of death	Graz