Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté

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Sonia Gramatté (around 1920)

Sophie-Carmen (Sonia) Eckhardt-Gramatté (born Fridman-Kotschewskaja ; born January 6, 1899 in Moscow , † December 2, 1974 in Stuttgart ) was a piano and violin virtuoso and composer of Russian descent.

Life

She studied from 1908 at the Conservatoire in Paris with Alfred Brun and Guillaume Rémy violin , Sophie Chene piano and Vincent d'Indy and Camille Chevillard composition and joined concert tours throughout Western Europe with his own works on. In 1914 she moved to Berlin, where she continued her studies with Bronisław Huberman in 1918 . In 1920 she married the painter Walter Gramatté in Berlin . The couple temporarily moved to Barcelona (1924–1926). She continued touring, u. a. 1925 with the pianist Edwin Fischer.

After the death of her husband in February 1929, she made her US debut in November of the same year. Under the conductors Leopold Stokowski and Frederick Stock , she performed there with her own compositions, including concert works for piano and violin. In 1934 she married the journalist and art historian Ferdinand Eckhardt . From 1935 she devoted herself exclusively to composition and from 1936 took further composition lessons from Max Trapp in Berlin . In 1939 she moved to Vienna with Eckhardt . There she emerged with further works, premiered her first string quartet (1939) and her first symphony (1942). After 1945 she became involved in the International Society for New Music and won several composition prizes. The couple had lived in Winnipeg / Canada since 1953 . In 1970 she received her doctorate from Brandon University in Manitoba and the title of professor from the Austrian Ministry of Education . Sophie Eckhardt-Gramatté died in 1974 in Stuttgart as a result of an accident.

tomb

She is buried together with Ferdinand Eckhardt and Walter Gramatté in the Evangelical Cemetery of the Rahnsdorf-Wilhelmshagen community (Saarower Weg 51), Section C, Row 9. The grave is dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honor grave .

Your estate is kept by the Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation .

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Eckhardt-Gramatté composed two symphonies , an orchestral concerto, a triple concerto for trumpet, clarinet, bassoon, strings and timpani, three piano and two violin concertos, a piece for two pianos and orchestra, a bassoon concerto, chamber music works as well as pieces for piano and solo violin .

literature

  • Ferdinand Eckhardt: Music from Within: A Biography of the Composer SC Eckhardt-Gramatté . The University of Manitoba Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1985, ISBN 0-88755-136-X
  • Renate Hellwig-Unruh: Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté - Biogram , in: KDG - Contemporary Composers, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Natalie von Zadow: Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté. In: MUGI. Music education and gender research: Lexicon and multimedia presentations. Beatrix Borchard, Nina Noeske, February 15, 2018 .;
  2. ↑ Biography on: The Eckhardt-Gramatté-Foundation (English)
  3. ↑ Uwe Harten: Eckhardt-Gramatté, Sophie-Carmen. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 . Status: October 8, 2001
  4. ^ Gaynor G. Jones:  Eckhardt-Gramatté, S (ophie) -C (poor). In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
personal data
SURNAME Eckhardt-Gramatté, Sophie-Carmen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fridman-Kotschewskaja, Sonia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian piano and violin virtuoso and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1974
Place of death Stuttgart