Tilly Fleischmann

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Tilly Fleischmann-Swertz

Tilly Fleischmann (born April 2, 1882 as Mathilda Swertz in Cork , Ireland ; † October 17, 1967 ibid.) Was a German-born Irish pianist , organist , music teacher and author .

Life

Tilly Fleischmann was the second of nine children of the married couple Hans Conrad Swertz from Kamperbruch (now in Kamp-Lintfort ), and Walburga, nee. Rössler from Dachau . Her father was the organist and choir director at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Anne in Cork. She attended St. Angela's College in Cork , run by Ursulines . She was trained on the organ by her father and on the piano by teachers from the Cork Municipal School of Music .

Supported by her father, she began studying at the Royal Academy of Music in Munich in September 1901 , which had also been open to women since 1890. She studied organ with Josef Becht (1858–1926) and piano with Bernhard Stavenhagen (1862–1914), the last student of Franz Liszt . When Stavenhagen left the academy in 1904, she continued her studies with Liszt's student Berthold Kellermann (1853-1926). In June 1905 she passed her final exams with top marks. Since her second semester she had been allowed to appear at all public academy concerts; in her last semester she played the Schumann Piano Concerto Op. 54 with the Academy Orchestra under the direction of Felix Mottl .

In September 1905 she married Aloys Fleischmann from Dachau, also a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, composition student of Joseph Rheinberger , then organist and choirmaster at the parish church in his hometown. Together with him, she moved to Cork in the summer of 1906, where Aloys Fleischmann succeeded her father.

Aloys Fleischmann Cork 1907

The couple had originally planned to stay in Ireland only while Tilly's siblings were still in education. In 1909 Tilly Fleischmann traveled to Munich for several months to give concerts and maintain contacts. During this stay, their son Aloys was born, who remained their only child. In July 1910 she returned to Cork with him. The family settled in there: Tilly taught and gave piano evenings, her husband organized choral concerts and composed sacred and secular choral music as well as songs , and friendships with art lovers developed.

Aloys and Tilly Fleischmann with their son Aloys, Cork 1913

Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom until after the First World War . However, in connection with the Irish striving for national independence, a movement to revive Gaelic culture, the Gaelic Revival, had emerged from the 1890s. The Fleischmanns were friends with musicians, artists and writers who campaigned for the Irish language and the pre-colonial cultural heritage of Ireland, among them Terence MacSwiney , who shortly afterwards took part in the fight against British rule. From January 1916, Aloys Fleischmann was interned as a civilian prisoner of war, first in Ireland, then on the Isle of Man , from where he was deported to Germany in 1919. Until his return in 1920 Tilly served as organist and choir director. She continued to teach, but the number of pupils fell sharply because of the anti-German sentiment among parts of the population.

From 1906 to the 1950s, Tilly Fleischmann gave regular piano, chamber music and song recitals in Cork and several times in Dublin. In addition to works by Liszt, her repertoire also included works by Chopin , Delius , Vaughan Williams , Scriabin , Debussy and Arnold Bax , the latter a close friend of the family. At the invitation of the University Art Society of Cork she made music with the Kutcher Quartet in 1932 and 1939, in 1934 she accompanied the singer Elisabeth Schumann , from 1926 she was often heard on Irish radio, in 1929 she was the first Irish pianist to be broadcast by the BBC has been. After the death of her husband in 1964, she no longer played in public.

Tilly Fleischmann with the composers Arnold Bax and EJ Moeran in Kinsale, Cork 1937

Tilly Fleischmann worked as a piano teacher for over 60 years. Her students came from all walks of life. From 1919 to 1937 she was the director of the piano department at the Cork School of Music . Then she founded her own piano school. As a music teacher, she passed on the Liszt tradition of piano playing and the interpretation of classical-romantic piano works to her students.

Tilly Fleischmann, Cork 1929

The Liszt tradition is the subject of her book Tradition and Craft in Piano Playing . The inspiration for this came from the Irish composer Herbert Hughes, and the work is dedicated to Arnold Bax. Work on it took about a decade and was completed in 1952. Since no publisher could be won for it during her lifetime, it was first published in abbreviated form on a subscription basis in 1986 under the title Aspects of the Liszt Tradition . The complete book was published in Dublin in 2014 with the assistance of the composer John Buckley, and Gabriela Mayer recorded the approx. 300 music samples. On the initiative of Josef Focht, text and video recordings were added to the virtual musicology library of the Bavarian State Library . Tilly Fleischmann was a corresponding member of the British Liszt Society; her reminiscences on Arnold Bax, written in 1955, were published in June 2000.

After her husband's death, Tilly Fleischmann archived his estate. Together with their family documents and writings, a documentation of the activities and influence of this German immigrant family in Ireland was created. She died at the age of 85, working until the last day.

Professional activities

  • 1905–1906 Private piano lessons in Munich and Dachau
  • 1906–1919 Private piano lessons in Cork
  • 1916–1920 deputy cathedral organist and choir director
  • 1919–1937 Professor of Piano at the Cork Municipal School of Music
  • 1937–1967 Tilly Fleischmann School of Piano Playing

Artistic activity

  • 1903–1905 participation in concerts of the Academy of Music in Munich
  • 1904–1905 performances in Dachau with her husband, Aloys Fleischmann
  • 1906–1950 Performances in Cork and Dublin
  • 1927–1947 radio broadcasts: piano music

Honors

  • In May 1963 Gerald Y. Goldberg founded a concert series "Lunchtime Concerts" at the Crawford School of Art, which he dedicated to Aloys and Tilly Fleischmann.
  • In 1977, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Fleischmann's death at the Feis Maitiú Corcaigh (Cork Music and Drama Festival), a “Tilly Fleischmann Recital Prize” was donated by her students. Participants must perform a piano work by Franz Liszt as part of their concert program.
  • In early 1978, as part of the 100th anniversary of the Cork Municipal School of Music, the director, Bridget Doolan, set up a piano recital series in memory of Tilly Fleischmann.
  • Tilly Fleischmann and her husband were honored in 2010, the year in which the 100th birthday of their son was celebrated in Ireland. The celebrations took place under the auspices of the Cork City Council; the commemorative year was opened by the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese . 145 organizations took part. The life and work of Aloys Senior and Tilly Fleischmann were presented in three exhibitions: in the Cork City Central Library, the Cork Public Museum, and in the District Museum, Dachau District Museum .

Publications

  • "Liszt's Ancestry", Liszt Society Newsletter 1967, Sep., London
  • “Liszt and Stavenhagen in London 1886”, Liszt Society Newsletter 1967, Sep., London
  • “Album d'un voyageur and Années de pèlerinage” Liszt Society Newsletter 1967, Sep., London
  • Aspects of the Liszt Tradition , ed. Michael O'Neill, Cork 1986; Aylesbury: Roberton Publications and Theodore Presser Co., Pennsylvania 1991; ISBN 0-9513720-2-5
  • "Some Reminiscences of Arnold Bax", The British Music Society Newsletter No. 86, editor: Rob Barnett, June 2000; then published on the Sir Arnold Bax website: http://www.musicweb-international.com/bax/Tilly.htm
  • Tradition and Craft in Piano-Playing , ed. Ruth Fleischmann, John Buckley, introduction by Patrick Zuk, DVD recording by Gabriela Mayer, Carysfort Press, Dublin May 2014; ISBN 978-1-909325-52-4
  • Tradition and Craft in Piano-Playing , ed. Ruth Fleischmann, John Buckley, foreword by Josef Focht, introduction by Patrick Zuk, DVD recording by Gabriela Mayer, digital edition, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich Sept. 2014, [1]

literature

Aloys and Tilly Fleischmann, Cork c. 1960
  • "In Grateful Appreciation," The Cork Examiner , May 21, 1963: Gerald Y. Goldberg's Lunchtime Concerts at the Crawford School of Art are dedicated to Aloys and Tilly Fleischmann
  • "Tilly Fleischmann", The Cork Examiner , Oct 18, 1967 (obituary)
  • Neeson, Geraldine, "Meeting the Fleischmanns," The Cork Examiner March 29, 1977
  • Acton, Charles: "Irish Pianists", in: Irish Arts Review , 1988, p. 116 ff.
  • O'Dea, Jane W., “Turning the Soul: A personal memoir of a great piano teacher”, in: The Spirit of Teaching Excellence , ed. David Jones, Calgary, Alberta, 1995
  • O'Dea, Jane W., Virtue or Virtuosity? Explorations in the Ethics of Musical Performance , Westport CT / London, 2000 (see Chapter 2)
  • Neeson, Geraldine, In My Mind's Eye , Dublin 2001, pp. 54 ff.
  • Barra, Séamas de: "Arnold Bax, the Fleischmanns and Cork", in: Journal of Music in Ireland , 5/1 2005
  • Cunningham, Joseph and Fleischmann, Ruth, “Dachau and Cork: 'Three generations of musicians connect both cities”, in: Amperland , Heft 41, Dachau 2005
  • Barra, Séamas de: Aloys Fleischmann , Field Day Publications, Dublin 2006, ISBN 0-946755-32-9
  • Cunningham, Joseph, Fleischmann, Ruth, de Barra, Séamas: Aloys Fleischmann (1880–1964) Immigrant Musician in Ireland , Cork University Press 2010, ISBN 978-1-85918-462-2
  • Zuk, Patrick, Fleischmann, Ruth, Barra, Séamas de: The Fleischmanns: A Companion to the Fleischmann Centenary Celebration , Cork City Libraries 2010, ISBN 978-0-9549847-5-5
  • District Museum Dachau, Aloys Georg Fleischmann: From Bavaria to Ireland - A musician's life between inspiration and longing , accompanying volume for the exhibition in the District Museum Dachau, Dachau 2010, ISBN 978-3-930941-70-4
  • Motherway, Nicholas, "Tilly Fleischmann - Renowned Cork Musician and Teacher" in: Africa - St Patrick's Missions , Kiltegan, July 2011
  • O'Conor, John, "Tilly Fleischmann - Tradition and Craft in Piano-Playing" in: The Irish Times , July 5, 2014, p. 12
  • Séamas de Barra, "Tilly Fleischmann - Tradition and Craft in Piano-Playing" in: Sound Post , Autumn 2014, p. 8
  • Michael Rathke, "Tradition and Craft in Piano-Playing by Tilly Fleischmann" in: American Music Teacher , October / November 2014, p. 50 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the birth certificate. 1879 and 1883 are also incorrectly stated. (See under personal data GND and LCCN).
  2. ^ Berthold Kellermann: Memories. An artist's life, ed. Sebastian Hausmann and Hellmut Kellermann, Eugen Rentsch Verlag, Erlenbach, Zurich and Leipzig 1932.
  3. ↑ Patrick Zuk: "An Irish Treatise on the Lisztian Tradition of Pianism", Introduction to: Tilly Fleischmann: Tradition and Craft in Piano-Playing , Carysfort Press, Dublin 2014, p. Xvii
  4. ↑ Ruth Fleischmann, "Aloys Georg Fleischmann (1880–1964): Life story of a Bavarian musician in Ireland" in: Aloys Georg Fleischmann: From Bavaria to Ireland - A musician life between inspiration and longing , Dachau district museum, Dachau 2010, p. 66 ff.
  5. ↑ Patrick Zuk: "Tilly Fleischmann", in: The Fleischmanns: A Remarkable Cork Family - A Companion to the Fleischmann Centenary Celebration , Cork City Libraries 2010, pp. 10-12
  6. ↑ Séamas de Barra: Aloys Fleischmann , Field Day Publications, Dublin 2006, pp. 8-10
  7. ↑ Máire MacSwiney Brugha: History's Daughter - A Memoir from the only child of Terence MacSwiney , O'Brien Press, Dublin 2006, p. 80
  8. ^ Tilly Fleischmann: Some Reminiscences of Arnold Bax (1955) , accessed January 11, 2014.
  9. ^ Aloys Fleischmann, "Music in Cork", in: Aloys Fleischmann, Ed., Music in Ireland, A Symposium , Cork University Press, Cork, Oxford 1952, p. 272 Fleischmann website at Cork City Libraries.
  10. ↑ Joseph P. Cunningham, Ruth Fleischmann, Séamas de Barra: Aloys Fleischmann (1880–1964) Immigrant Musician in Ireland , Cork University Press 2010, pp. 168–79; 215-219
  11. ↑ The editor was her student Michael O'Neill, cf. "Editor's Preface", in: Tilly Fleischmann, Aspects of the Liszt Tradition , Adare Press, Cork 1986.
  12. ↑ Virtual Library of Musicology: Tilly Fleischmann: Tradition and Craft in Piano-Playing. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 15, 2015 ; accessed on January 15, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The typescript of the book can be downloaded from the City Library Cork , see under web links. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vifamusik.de
  13. ^ Esther Greene, "The Death of Tilly Fleischmann" in: Ruth Fleischmann Ed., Aloys Fleischmann (1910-92), A Life for Music in Ireland Remembered by Contemporaries , Mercier Press, Cork 2000, pp. 41f.
  14. ↑ Cork Examiner May 21, 1963
  15. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=241510539340479&id=118540614970806
  16. ↑ Aloys Fleischmann 13 April 1910 to 21 July 1992: Celebrating the Man and his Music - Program of events , Cork City Council in 2010
personal data
SURNAME Fleischmann, Tilly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Swertz, Mathilda (maiden name); Swertz, Mathilde; Swertz, Tilly; Fleischmann-Swertz, Mathilde; Fleischmann, Mathilda; Fleischmann, Mathilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-born Irish pianist, organist, music teacher and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Cork , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1967
Place of death Cork , Ireland