Wilhelm Steifensand

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Wilhelm Steifensand (born September 18, 1812 in Kaster , † November 27, 1882 in Schwuchow ) was a German pianist , composer in Düsseldorf and Berlin and farmer in the Prussian province of Pomerania .

Life

Vocal and instrumental concert, Wilhelm Steifensand March 4, 1837

Wilhelm Steifensand was the son of eight children of Heinrich Joseph Steifensand (1745-1840), born in Mainz, and Amalia Derscheid (1778-1828) from Oberingelheim, who had settled in Kaster in 1803 at the end of the French era . He followed his older brother Xaver Steifensand , a pupil of the copper engraving class at the Düsseldorf School of Painting , to Düsseldorf in 1832 , where he became a pupil of Norbert Burgmüller on the piano and for composition, to whom Steifensand dedicated his Rhapsody in B minor, Op. 13. Later he also took lessons from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy .

At the beginning of January 1835 his piece "Five four-part male choirs" had its first performance in the Beckerschen Gartensaal with Mendelssohn as conductor, with repetition at the end of January under his and FW Lübeck's direction in the casino building of F. Hoffmann, which was on Flinger Strasse . Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter and Alfred Rethel , with whom he made several trips to Germany, belonged to his close circle of friends , as well as the painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , who played the cello, the violinist Willem Lübeck (1811–1850), brother of the concert master from Haag , and Felix Mendelsohn, but especially Norbert Burgmüller, whose dedicatee he was for the work “Rhapsody in B minor op. 13”. After Burgmüller died on May 7, 1836 in Aachen , Steifensand did one last service to his friend by transferring his body to Düsseldorf, where Burgmüller was buried in the Golzheim cemetery with great sympathy among the population. On April 22, 1837, a Burgmüller memorial concert took place in Düsseldorf under the direction of Julius Rietz , in which Steifensand played his Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op. 1, and accompanied the premiere of several of his songs on the piano. In 1840 Robena Anne Laidlaw played in Breslau among other studies by Steifensand.

Steifensand was described in the “Zeitschrift für Musik” in 1841 as follows: “[…] the pianist Wilhelm Steifensand, a student of Mendelssohn, who took care of the musical conditions in Düsseldorf, both as a teacher and as a player in public concerts, made a great contribution Has. His skill on the piano is indeed eminent; he has the advantage that he mostly concentrates on the study of classical works. [...] Some compositions for the pianoforte have shown that he also has a profession in this sphere of artistic activity. Many of the four-part songs he composed were recorded with great enthusiasm in a song table that he formed and conducted. "

In 1844 he moved to Berlin , where he held successful soirées and matinees for chamber music , including in his salon , and published mainly piano pieces and songs - in a dignified and not unoriginal style. Trio evenings took place with the violinist Adolf Stahlknecht (1813–1887) and his brother the cellist Julius Stahlknecht (1817–1892), including the soirée for chamber music with his sonata for pianoforte and violoncello in December 1848 in the Hôtel de Russie (Russian court) in Georgenstrasse. At that time, Steifensand lived at 25 French Street .

In August 1850, Steifensand married Dorothea Seyffert, daughter of Henriette Seyffert and granddaughter of Friedrich Wilhelm Arnold from Vessin , who had been mayor of Stolp in 1827 and 1846 . Around 1853, Steifensand was registered as a music teacher at 53 Behrenstrasse . Among his students was the pianist Adolf Ries (1837–1899).

Wilhelm renounced his profession as a musician and composer in Berlin in order to settle as a farmer on his wife Dorothea's estate in Schwuchow near Stolp, Pomerania . There he managed the Seddin Vorwerk .

The son Georg Steifensand took over the former Rittergut Schwuchow from his grandmother in 1875 and Seddin from his mother in 1883 and bought in 1909, now Rittmeister a. D., the Kossäten Wittbeck and Wittstock added. The son Richard Steifensand became an administrative lawyer and police chief in Berlin-Charlottenburg . The daughter Margarete Steifensand (* 1862) married Maximilian Hermann von Zitzewitz (1849–1913) from Dumröse , master of Gut Kussow , in September 1880 .

Works (selection)

  • Sonata for pianoforte and violoncello
  • Sonata (C major) for pianoforte and violoncello. op.15, Leipzig, 1857
  • Sonata No. 2 op.13
  • You are like a flower, op.4 (Five Songs) no.1 (Text: Heinrich Heine )
  • I cried in a dream, op.4 (Five Songs) no.3 (Text: Heinrich Heine)
  • In the wonderful month of May (Text: Heinrich Heine)
  • Loreley: Ballade, op.9 (Text: Heinrich Heine)

literature

  • Franz Pazdírek: Universal manual of music literature of all times and peoples. As a reference work and source of study for world music literature. Vienna 1904, Steifensand, W., p. 999.
  • Klaus Martin Kopitz : The Düsseldorf composer Norbert Burgmüller. A life between Beethoven - Spohr - Mendelssohn. Kleve 1998, ISBN 3-9805931-6-9 .
  • Matthias Koch: The Steifensand family from Kaster. In: Yearbook of the Bergheimer Geschichtsverein eV Volume 14, 2005, ISBN 3-9809216-5-4 , pp. 195–203.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Steifensand in memory of Norbert Burgmüller from Dr. M. , in Zeitschrift für neue Musik, 1840, pp. 2, 17, 45.
  2. ↑ World premieres of choral works from 1818 to today: January 12, 1835, five four-part male choirs, Düsseldorf-Beckerscher Gartensaal, conductor Mendelssohn
  3. ↑ Poster: Hall of Mr. Hoffmann in the casino building a large instrumental and vocal concert, Thursday January 29, 1835: "Five four-part male choirs", Wilhelm Steifensand
  4. ↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz: The Rhapsody op.13, probably Burgmüller's most independent work, was possibly created on the 22nd birthday of the dedicatee, the pianist and composer Wilhelm Steifensand on September 17, 1834. Steifensand was a student of Burgmüller's composition and soon belonged to his close circle of friends.
  5. ↑ Kopitz (1998), pp. 278-284.
  6. ↑ Kopitz (1998), p. 289 and Concert from the Norbert Burgmüller estate, April 22, 1837 , In: Blätter für Scherz und Ernst. No. 34, 1837.
  7. ^ General musical newspaper, No. 22 May 1840, p. 470.
  8. ↑ Zeitschrift für Musik, Volume 8, 1841, From Düsseldorf, pp. 39–40.
  9. ↑ Neue Berliner Musikzeitung, Gustav Bock (ed.), Fifth year, 1851: A matinee took place in Mr. Steifensand's salon, to which an extremely elegant audience had gathered.
  10. ^ John Denison Champlin: Cyclopedia of music and musicians (Volume 3). P. 66: STAHLKNECHT, ADOLF, born at Warsaw, June 18, 1813, died in Berlin, June 24, 1887. Violinist, pupil of Luge at Breslau, and of Miiblenbruck and Saint-Lubiu in Berlin, made extensive concert tours with his brother Julius, and in 1844 established trio evenings with him and the pianist Steifensand.
  11. ↑ Berlin musical newspaper, No. 43, November 1844, p. 2: Trio Soiréen
  12. ↑ Steifensand, W., Musicians, French Street. 25 , in General Housing Gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and its surroundings, 1848.
  13. ↑ Steifensand, W., music teacher, Behrenstr. 53 in General Housing Advertisement for Berlin and Surroundings Berlin, 1852, p. 488.
  14. ↑ Gustav Bock (Ed.): Neue Berliner Musikzeitung, eleventh year No. 2, from January 7, 1857, p. 93.
  15. ^ Wilhelm Steifensand, Herr auf Seddin since 1856 , on rootsweb.ancestry.com, accessed on August 16, 2016.
  16. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, fourth year, noble houses according to alphabetical order, 1903, p. 973: Zitzewitz, house Dumröse
  17. ^ Soirée for chamber music, Hôtel de Russie, Berlin, Monday, December 4, 1848
  18. ↑ Gustav Bock (ed.): Neue Berliner Musikzeitung, eleventh year No. 2, from January 7, 1857, p. 314: C. Böhmer: Description of the sonata (C major) for pianoforte and violoncello. op. 15, in Leipzig with Fr. Kistner.
  19. ^ Hofmeister monthly reports, September 1854, p. 607: Steifensand, W., Sonata No. 2nd Op. 13, in G. Leipzig, Br. U. Härtel 1 rt. 10 Ngr.
personal data
SURNAME Steifensand, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steifensand, Wilhelm Jacob Gottfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist, composer and farmer
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Caster
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1882
Place of death Schwuchow