Pauline Eichberg

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Pauline Eichberg (born April 22, 1839 in Stuttgart , † December 28, 1874 in Baltimore ) was a German pianist.

Life

Pauline Eichberg was the oldest of the five daughters of the Stuttgart chasan Moritz Eichberg and his wife Eleonore or Leonore, born. Seligsberg. Like her sisters Bertha and Julie , she became a professional musician.

She received her first piano lessons from Mathilde Ries , came at the age of ten years for the first time in public, and came in the 1850s, recommended by a non-designated there by name Mr. Rubinstein and subsequently by Giacomo Meyerbeer , in the piano class by Ignaz Moscheles in Leipzig . In 1856 she took part in an exam concert at the conservatory. She played together with Friedericke von Benamin , Jenny Hering and Therese von der Hoya a Grand Duo by Moscheles for two pianos for eight hands, namely Les Contrastes (op. 115).

According to her biography in the Jewish Encyclopedia , she played for one season with Rubinstein in Baden; However, this phase is not dated there.

Apparently she moved to Frankfurt am Main after completing her studies . In the spring of 1857 she gave a musical soiree in the local "Holländischer Hof"; it could also be heard in a salon of the Count of Montessuy. A criticism in the intelligence newspaper of the city of Frankfurt was very positive and also shows that Pauline Eichberg had performed in Frankfurt earlier. At times she probably had the plan to stay as a piano teacher in this city, but in the same year she performed several concerts in Stuttgart, including a charity concert in the Stuttgart Museum with Mathilde von Marlow and Franz Josef Schütky . In 1858 and 1859 she performed with her sister Bertha before she moved to the USA in 1859 and became a piano teacher in New York . She gave her first concert in New York in 1860.

A little later she married Alexander Weiller in New York, with whom she moved to Baltimore. Between 1862 and 1874 the couple had four children, with the birth of the youngest, a daughter who was also named Pauline, ending tragically: Pauline Eichberg apparently died as a result of this birth. Alexander Weiller entered into a second marriage with Nora Wise and had four more children with this second wife.

From 1865 Pauline Eichberg's younger sister Julie lived in the household of the Eichberg-Weiller family; Pauline and Julie Eichberg performed together in Baltimore several times.

Pauline Eichberg is said to have particularly distinguished herself as a Chopin interpreter.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Pauline Weiler's biography on jewishencyclopedia.com
  2. ↑ a b Pauline Eichberg's biography on sophie-drinker-institut.de ( memento of the original from November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sophie-drinker-institut.de
  3. ↑ data sheet on neilpiwovar.com
personal data
SURNAME Eichberg, Pauline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1874
Place of death Baltimore