Sandra Droucker

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Sandra Droucker around 1906

Sandra Droucker (born May 7, 1875 in Saint Petersburg , † April 1, 1944 in Hamar , Norway ) was a Russian-Norwegian pianist and music teacher.

Life

Droucker grew up in Russia as the child of a German-Jewish father and a Russian mother from the nobility . She was a student of Anton Rubinstein at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory . In 1904, about her training at Rubinstein, she published a book that conveys Rubinstein's teaching methods. Extensive concert tours made her very well known not only in Russia, but also in England, Italy and Germany and especially in Scandinavia since 1894. Droucker spoke six languages ​​and had lived permanently in Berlin from around 1894, where the then 28-year-old was a teacher at the Stern Conservatory from 1904 to 1906 . She also taught at Petersen's Academy of Music. On March 3, 1905, she was one of the first pianists to record 12 pieces for Welte-Mignon , for which only first-class pianists were selected. From 1905 she directed the piano lessons of Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia . From 1910 to 1918 she was married to the Austrian pianist Gottfried Galston , during which time she called herself Droucker-Galston. On March 27, 1913, she performed for the first time with the Berliner Philharmoniker , which she accompanied as a soloist on a tour of Scandinavia.

In the 1930s she met Oswald Jonas , who was a student of Heinrich Schenker and who represented his theories, and who also taught at the Stern Conservatory from 1930 to 1934. Jonas referred to her as his pupil in 1932 and mentioned a lecture she gave in Oslo. Probably stateless since the end of the First World War , she went to Norway after Hitler came to power, she was banned from working in Germany . Droucker spoke fluent Norwegian and had several Norwegian students from her time as a piano professor, including Anne-Marie Ørbeck . Bjørn Bjørnson obtained a residence permit for her and Ignaz Friedman . In 1938 she became a Norwegian citizen under Prime Minister Mowinckel after prominent Norwegians such as Aslaug Mohr and the composer Edvard Sylou-Creutz stood up for her. She died in 1944 in the Red Cross Hospital in Hamar, as the hospitals in Oslo no longer admitted patients due to the war.

Dedications

Several composers dedicated their works to Sandra Droucker, including

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sophie Stabell: Sandra Droucker, et blad av Oslos musikhistorie . Oslo: Grøhndahl & Søns, 1945.
  2. ↑ gdal Saleški: Famous musicians of a wandering race: biographical sketches of outstanding figures of Jewish origin in the musical world . New York: Bloch, 1927, p. 305.
  3. ↑ Information from the Archives of the University of the Arts Berlin, December 17, 2007. Further information not possible due to war losses.
  4. ↑ Gerhard Dangel and Hans-W. Schmitz: Welte-Mignon -Reproduktionen / Welte-Mignon Reproductions. Complete catalog of recordings for the Welte-Mignon Reproducing Piano 1905–1932 / Complete Library Of Recordings For The Welte-Mignon Reproducing Piano 1905–1932 . Stuttgart 2006. ISBN 3-00-017110-X . P. 434.
  5. ↑ René Trémine: Wilhelm Furtwängler. Concert Listing 1906-1954 . Tahra Productions, Buzançais, 1997, p. 10.
  6. ^ Wilhelm Spemann: Spemann's golden book of music . Berlin and Stuttgart: W. Spemann, 1916. P. 6528 (Incorrect information: Crown Prince ).
  7. ^ Letter from Oswald Jonas to Heinrich Schenker of September 25, 1932. ( Memento of February 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Schenker Correspondence Project, Columbia University
  8. ↑ Aschehougs konversasjons leksikon , 4th edition, Oslo: Aschehoug, 1956, p. 1266.

Works

  • Memories of Anton Rubinstein: remarks, hints and discussions (with many music examples) in his class at the St. Petersburg Conservatory . Leipzig: Bartholf Senff, 1904
Compositions
  • 12 piano pieces: François Couperin . Edit for the youth by Sandra Droucker. Vienna, New York: Universal Edition, 1925.
  • Mazurka for piano by Sandra Droucker. Universitetsbiblioteket i Agder, Kristianssand
  • Two children's pieces for piano by Sandra Droucker. Universitetsbiblioteket i Agder, Kristianssand

literature

  • Kadja Grönke: Droucker, Sandra . In: Freia Hoffmann (Ed.): Instrumentalist Lexicon. European instrumentalists of the 18th and 19th centuries . 2018 ( sophie-drinker-institut.de [accessed on July 24, 2020]).

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personal data
SURNAME Droucker, Sandra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Droucker-Galston, Sandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1944
Place of death Hamar