Melanie Michaelis
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Melanie Michaelis (born April 20, 1882 in Wiesbaden , † October 14, 1969 in Munich ) was a German violinist .
Life
Melanie's father was Arthur Michaelis (1859–1922), director of the Wiesbaden Conservatory. The mother Auguste was a daughter of the composer Albert Parlow . Melanie received violin lessons from her father and attended the secondary school for girls in Wiesbaden. From 1898 to 1903 she studied violin with Karl Markees and from 1899 with his teacher Joseph Joachim at the Royal University of Music in Berlin . The Dr. In 1902 the Josef Joachim Foundation lent her a violin.
After making her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker under August Scharrer in 1906 , she was able to establish herself as a soloist and chamber musician in Berlin and in international musical life . She has given concerts in Russia, Holland, England and Switzerland. In 1911 she moved to Munich . As a violinist and violin teacher, she founded the Michaelis Quartet in 1912 and directed a “chamber orchestra for classical music”.
In autumn 1913 she played Johann Sebastian Bach's Double Concerto in D minor (BWV 1043) in Berlin with her brother Hans Michaelis . In the spring of 1917 she went on a tour of Germany with the pianist Max von Pauer , including to Freiberg and Berlin.
In the 1930s she turned to contemporary music and played works by Hermann von Glenck , Joseph Haas , Paul Hindemith , Arthur Honegger , Rudolf Peters , Hans Pfitzner , Sergej Prokofjew , Maurice Ravel , Igor Stravinsky and Ernst Toch . From 1932 to 1936 she taught her nephew, the later composer Giselher Klebe . After the Second World War she gave concerts at Schloss Elmau , where she often lived for a long time.
According to her own admission, she was only married to her Guadagnini violin , which Friedrich Koenig, the fourth son of the German sugar magnate Leopold Koenig , had given to the family in St. Petersburg in 1903 . For many years Melanie Michaelis was friends with Wilhelm Furtwängler , who would have liked to have married her. The letters he received to her from 1909 to 1931 are in private hands; He wrote a particularly large number of letters to her in 1915. We have also received a letter of thanks from Walter and Hilde Furtwängler to Melanie Michaelis to share in the grief of Wilhelm Furtwängler in 1954, the year he died.
In Munich, Melanie Michaelis last lived at Äußere Prinzregentenstrasse 17a, before that at Franz-Josef-Strasse 14. Munich's 2nd mayor, the music dealer and publisher Adolf Hieber, congratulated her on her 75th birthday .
Mentions
- Allgemeine Zeitung , Volume 116, issues 40–52, Bayerische Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt, 1913, p. 706 (with her brother Hans)
- Die Musik , Vol. 6, Issue 2, 1907, pp. 117 and 126
- Die Musik , Vol. 11, Part 2, Verlag M. Hesse, 1912, p. 188
- Die Woche , Vol. 8, issues 1-10, Verlag A. Scherl, 1906, p. CXXX
- One hundred years of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: the members of the orchestra, the programs, the concert tours, first and world premieres , 1982, p. 103
- Melos , Vol. 13, Melos-Verlag, 1930, pp. 152 and 552
- Musikalisches Wochenblatt , vol. 39, Verlag EW Fritzsch, 1908, p. 448
- Music pedagogical sheets: Central sheet for the entire musical education system , volumes 25–26, editors Emil Breslaur, Anna Morsch, W. Peiser Verlag, 1902, p. 280
- New magazine for music , volume 105, part 1, editor Robert Schumann, Verlag B. Schott, 1938, p. 104
- Signals for the musical world , Vol. 78, 1920, p. 418
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Markees' pupils were Amalie Birnbaum, Corinne Coryn, Bronisław Huberman and Kôda Kô
- ↑ Chronik der ..., Prussische Akademie der Künste , 1902, p. 102
- ↑ Hans Michaelis was a member of the Wendling Quartet
- ↑ a b c d Giselher Klebe family archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Michaelis, Melanie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1969 |
| Place of death | Munich |