Marie Wieck

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Marie Wieck, anonymous photo, around 1870

Johanna Marie Wieck (born January 17, 1832 in Leipzig , † October 6, 1916 in Dresden ) was a German pianist and singer and the half-sister of Clara Schumann, b. Wieck.

Life

Marie Wieck was Friedrich Wieck's second child from his second marriage to Clementine Wieck, nee. Fechner and was born in the family's apartment at the time on Leipziger Reichsstraße. In 1840 she moved to Dresden with her parents. Her father did everything in his power to make her into a child prodigy similar to his older daughter Clara. She received both piano and singing lessons and later became her father's assistant.

She gave her first solo concert on February 14, 1844 in Bischofswerda . During her busy concert career, she appeared several times with Clara, once with her brother-in-law Robert Schumann in a Düsseldorf concert on August 3, 1852.

In 1878 she published her father's collection of writings, Clavier und Gesang (1853) , with her own foreword and some changes and additions . In his writings (also beyond clavier and song ) Friedrich Wieck often speaks of his "three daughters" and means Cäcilie, Clara and Marie (also called Emma). The youngest, Cäcilie (1834-1893), was also a gifted pianist, but fell seriously ill at the age of 15 and spent the rest of her life mentally ill.

From 1893 Marie Wieck owned a summer house in Hosterwitz .

Her family chronicle, published in 1912, with numerous unpublished letters, aroused criticism from some Schumann researchers because it contradicted the current picture.

Marie Wieck remained unmarried throughout her life. In the last years of her life she suffered from a serious eye disease, but still performed on January 15, 1916 in the Palmengarten in Dresden, where she played Adagio and Variations op. 46 by Robert Schumann with Hermann Scholtz . Shortly before her death, she became completely blind.

She was buried in the Trinity Cemetery in Dresden, and her estate ended up in the Robert Schumann House in Zwickau .

literature

  • Anna von Meichsner: Friedrich Wieck and his two daughters Clara Schumann, b. Wieck, and Marie Wieck. Leipzig 1878
  • Marie Wieck: From the Wieck-Schumann district. Dresden 1912, 2nd edition 1914
  • Cathleen Köckritz: A second Clara? - The musical training and artistic career of Marie Wieck. In: Bernhard R. Appel , Ute Bär, Matthias Wendt (eds.): Schumanniana nova. Festschrift for Gerd Nauhaus on his 60th birthday . Sinzig 2002, pp. 344-362
  • Ute Bär: A pianist in the shadow of Clara Schumann? In commemoration of Marie Wieck's 175th birthday on January 17, 2007. In: Die Tonkunst , Vol. 1 (2007), pp. 52–54
  • Eberhard Möller (ed.): Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with the Wieck family (= Schumann-Briefedition, Series I, Volume 2). Cologne 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Möller (2011), p. 385
  2. ↑ Tomi Mäkelä , Christoph Kammertöns , Lena Esther Ptasczynski (eds.): Friedrich Wieck - Collected writings . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-631-76745-0 , p. 155 ff .
  3. ^ Marie Wieck in Hosterwitz | ELBHANG COURIER. Retrieved on July 24, 2018 (German).
  4. ^ Schumann portal: siblings and half-siblings of Clara Schumann .
personal data
SURNAME Wieck, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wieck, Johanna Marie; Wieck, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1916
Place of death Dresden