Regina Strinasacchi

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Regina Strinasacchi , married Regina Schlick , (born February 28, 1761 in Ostiglia , † June 11, 1839 in Dresden ) was an Italian violinist in Mozart's time.

Life

Regina Strinasacchi received her musical training at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, an orphanage for girls famous for its music education. This also included conducting and playing string and wind instruments, although at that time only singing and playing the piano were considered appropriate for women. While there were some famous pianists at the time, Regina Strinasacchi was an absolute exception as a violinist. Regina initially gave concerts as a child prodigy, presumably making her younger, which led to confusion about her exact date of birth. From 1780 she went on a concert tour of several years through Italy, France and Germany. In 1784 she stayed in Vienna, where she commissioned Wolfgang Amadé Mozart to write the Sonata for Piano and Violin in B flat major (KV 454). The premiere on April 29th took place in the presence of Emperor Joseph II and was a great success, although Mozart had finished the violin part one day before the concert and improvised the piano part and wrote it down afterwards.

In the same or the following year Regina Strinasacchi married the cellist Johann Konrad Schlick from Gotha . She became a permanent member of the Gotha Court Orchestra, which was absolutely unusual for a woman at the time. In addition to the violin, she played guitar, composed - although all works are lost - and probably also conducted. Between 1795 and 1810 she went on several concert tours with her husband and a Caroline Schlick, possibly her daughter. After the death of her husband in 1818, she moved to Dresden with her son Johann Friedrich Wilhelm (1801–1874), a cellist and instrument maker, where she also died.

The judgment of the contemporaries

“Italy now has another excellent violin player born from Signora Caterina Strinasacchi from Mantua. I have heard her several times in Florence, and always with the greatest pleasure, in her concert. It is unbelievable how easily and decently the girl (she is about 18 years old and very well educated) knows how to handle this difficult instrument. The tone she pulls out of her Cremonese violin is a finely polished silver tone. She plays the violin concertos by Giarnowick, St. George, Borra, Cambini etc. particularly well, with a lot of fire, or, as the Italians put it with a much comprehensive word, con molto Estro . She stayed for a few years in Paris, where she had the opportunity to hear the best and greatest musicians and violinists of all nations at the Concert Spirituel, and there she may have learned the brilliance of execution, as well as some innocent gallantries, there. But thanks be to her guardian angel that he saved her from the foolish, volatile taste and disgusting sweetness of our gallant neighbors. [...] In short, she has the best taste in music [...] "

- Letter from June 1782

“Here we have the famous Mantuan Strinasacchi, a very good violin player; she has a great deal of taste and sensitivity in her play. - I'm just writing a sonata that we will play together on Thursday in the theater at your academy. "

- Wolfgang A. Mozart : Letter to Leopold Mozart, April 24, 1784

"I am sorry that you have not heard this not tall, well-behaved, about 23 year old, not shameful, very skilful woman. She doesn’t play a note without feeling, especially at the synphony she played everything with expression, and no one can play her Adagio with more feeling and touching than she; all her heart and soul is with the melody she sings; and their tone is just as beautiful, and also by virtue of the tone. In general, [I] think that a woman who has talent plays more with expression than a man. "

- Leopold Mozart : to his daughter, 1785

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cramer's Magazin der Musik, 1st year, first half 1783, pp. 344–345 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ quoted from: New Mozart Edition Volume VIII / 23/2: Sonatas and Variations for Piano and Violin. Edited by Eduard Reeser. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1965, p. XIV ( online ).
  3. ↑ quoted from: Wilhelm A. Bauer, Otto Erich Deutsch (Ed.): Mozart. Letters and Notes. Volume 3. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1963, p. 467.
personal data
SURNAME Strinasacchi, Regina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlick, Regina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian violinist of Mozart's time
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostiglia
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1839
Place of death Dresden