Mary Krebs-Brenning

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Krebs-Brenning

Mary Krebs-Brenning (born December 5, 1851 in Dresden ; † June 27, 1900 in the Strehlen district ) was a German pianist .

Life

Mary Krebs-Brenning, engraving by August Weger

She was the daughter of the opera singer Aloyse Krebs-Michalesi and the Royal Saxon court conductor Karl August Krebs .

The father taught his daughter to play the piano from the age of six. Her first concert in 1863 in the former Hotel de Saxe in Dresden was followed by numerous other concerts in Leipzig , Hamburg and England .

She was considered a “child prodigy” and was appointed royal chamber virtuoso by King Johann at the age of 13 . In October 1870 she went on a concert tour to America and crossed the United States in two years. Many of the leading critics at the time saw her as the “first” German pianist of her time. Their size was based on the right measure, according to the reviews. She accompanied the soprano Adelina Patti on the piano and made music together with Anton Rubinstein as well as the Royal Court Orchestra and the commercial orchestra.

Grave of Mary Krebs-Brenning (left) and her parents (right) in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden

Trips to England, Saint Petersburg and Moscow follow . In 1887 she married the royal stable master Theodor Brenning , increasingly withdrew from the public and lived in seclusion on an estate in Strehlen . She died there in June 1900 and found her final resting place in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden- Friedrichstadt . Her grave is designed as a stele with a portrait medallion.

Honor

During her lifetime, the street on which Mary Krebs lived was given the name Mary-Krebs-Straße when Strehlen was incorporated into Dresden in 1892 .

literature

  • Cancer, Mary . In: Volker Klimpel: Famous Dresdeners . Hellerau-Verlag, Dresden 2002, ISBN 3-910184-85-5 , p. 94.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Adolf Hantzsch : Name book of the streets and squares of Dresden (=  messages of the Society for the History of Dresden . No.  17, 18 ). Wilhelm Baeusch, Dresden 1905, p. 91 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Mary Krebs-Brenning  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files