Anna Schuppe

Last updated

Anna Marie Wilhelmine Antonie Leopoldine Benfey Schuppe (September 19, 1829 - May 27, 1903) [1] was an Austrian author and composer who wrote songs, [2] operas, and music for theatre. [3] She published under the names Anna Benfey Schuppe and Anna Benfey. [4]

Contents

Schuppe was born in Landeck. [5] Her music teachers included Georg Bierling (possibly Georg Vierling), Moritz Brosig, Ludwig Meinardus, and Hubert Ries. She taught at the Ursuline Convent in Glogow, Poland, then in Dresden, Germany, and in Graz, Austria. She married the writer Rudolf Benfey in 1879. [6]

Schuppe moved to Weimar, Germany, in 1892, following her husband’s death. [6] She continued her husband’s correspondence with the composer Franz Liszt, [7] as well as his work on a pamphlet entitled Beethoven and Liszt. [8]

Schuppe composed works through at least opus 7. [9] She was best known for her incidental music for William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet , which was performed in Wroclaw, Poland; Coburg, Germany; and Dresden. (N) Her publications included:

Books

Chamber Music

Opera

Theatre

Vocal

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Schumann</span> German composer, pianist and critic (1810–1856)

Robert Schumann was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. His teacher, Friedrich Wieck, a German pianist, had assured him that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Clara Schumann</span> German pianist and composer (1819–1896)

Clara Josephine Schumann was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital by lessening the importance of purely virtuosic works. She also composed solo piano pieces, a piano concerto, chamber music, choral pieces, and songs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel</span> Duchess consort of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach

Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, was a German princess and composer. She became the duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach by marriage, and was also regent of the states of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach from 1758 to 1775. She transformed her court and its surrounding into the most influential cultural center of Germany.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Josephine Lang</span> German composer

Josephine Caroline Lang was a German composer. Josephine Lang was the daughter of Theobald Lang, a violinist, and Regina Hitzelberger, opera singer. Her mother taught young Josephine how to play piano, and from age five it became apparent that Josephine was possessed with great potential as a composer. As early as age eleven Josephine started giving piano lessons herself. Through her godfather, Joseph Stieler, Josephine was exposed to some of the greatest artists of her time. Both Felix Mendelssohn and Ferdinand Hiller went to great lengths to ensure that Lang learned the proper theory for song-writing, and used their connections to publish Lang's music. Even Robert Schumann published a song of Josephine's in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in 1838.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Johanna Jachmann-Wagner</span> German opera singer

Johanna Jachmann-Wagner or Johanna Wagner was a mezzo-soprano singer, tragédienne in theatrical drama, and teacher of singing and theatrical performance who won great distinction in Europe during the third quarter of the 19th century. She was a niece of the composer Richard Wagner and was the original performer, and in some respects the inspiration, of the character of Elisabeth in Tannhäuser. She was also the original intended performer of Brünnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen, but in the event assumed other roles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf</span>

Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf was a Finnish-German composer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Franz von Schober</span>

Franz Adolf Friedrich Schober, since 1801 von Schober, was an Austrian poet, librettist, lithographer, actor in Breslau and Legationsrat in Weimar.

Maria Anna Stubenberg was a German composer who used Hungarian and gypsy folk tunes in her compositions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Louise Héritte-Viardot</span> French singer, pianist, conductor and composer

Louise Pauline Marie Héritte-Viardot was a French singer, pianist, conductor and composer. She was born in Paris, the eldest child of Pauline Viardot-Garcia and Louis Viardot, niece of Maria Malibran and sister to composer and conductor Paul Viardot.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ludwig Meinardus</span> Musical artist

Ludwig Siegfried Meinardus was a German composer. His students included Anna Schuppe.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ildikó Raimondi</span> Austrian opera singer (born 1962)

Ildikó Raimondi is a Hungarian-Austrian operatic soprano and academic voice teacher. She has been a member of the Vienna State Opera since 1991, and has performed leading roles internationally, especially in Mozart operas. She also works in concert and lied, including contemporary compositions. She has received Austrian awards.

Caroline Schneider Wiseneder was a German composer and music educator who developed a musical notation system for the blind, as well as a kindergarten music curriculum. She was born in Braunschweig, and married an opera singer named Wiseneder. She founded several singing societies, in addition to the Wiseneder Music School for the Blind in 1860, which became the model for several schools throughout Germany. Her method for teaching instrumental music to young children was adopted by the national kindergarten movement established in Germany about 1873. Among other teaching tools, Caroline used toy orchestra instruments which were carefully tuned to harmonize together. She believed that children should always be accompanied by an instrument when they sang. After her death, a marble bust of Caroline was placed in the Braunschweig town library in honor of her achievements.

Pauline Volkstein was a German composer of over 1,000 songs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Margarete Schweikert</span> German composer

Margarete Schweikert was a German composer, music critic, violinist, and pianist who composed chamber music, approximately 160 songs, and a children's operetta, The Frog King.

Anna Teichmüller was a German composer and teacher who set the works of many poets, especially Carl Hauptmann, to music. She composed most of her works at the Schreiberhau artist colony.

Nina Stollewerk Rosthorn was an Austrian composer, conductor, and singer who was one of the most widely-reviewed female composers of her time, and one of the few 19th-century women to conduct an orchestra.

Charlotte Wilhelmine Eringarde Freiin Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim Sporleder was a German composer who won a medal at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. She published her music under the name Charlotte Sporleder.

Wilhelmine von Schwertzell (1787-1863) was a German author, lieder composer, and folklorist who helped Wilhelm Grimm collect fairy tales.

Amalie Karoline Luise Scholl Gatspar was a German composer who wrote songs and works for piano. She published under the name Amalie Scholl.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elise Schlick</span> German-Bohemian composer and poet (1792–1855)

Maria Elisabeth, Countess of Schlick was a Bohemian-born German composer and poet. She composed music for lieder and also wrote poetry that other composers set to music. She published under the name Countess Elise Schlick or Gräfin Elise Schlick. Although Schlick is often described as German, some sources list her birthplace as Prague and her birth year as 1792.

References

  1. "Anna Marie Wilhelmine Antonie Leopoldine Benfey". geni_family_tree. 19 September 1829. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  2. Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall. ISBN   0-8161-8498-4. OCLC   6815939.
  3. "The Project Gutenberg eBook of Woman's Work in Music, by Arthur Elson". www.gutenberg.org. p. 163. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. p. 74. ISBN   0-9617485-2-4. OCLC   16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. Wier, Albert E. (1938). The Macmillan encyclopedia of music and musicians : in one volume. The Macmillan Company. p. 155. OCLC   861908.
  6. 1 2 "ccm :: Benfey Schuppe, Anna Benfey Schuppe". composers-classical-music.com. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  7. Liszt, Franz (1894). From Rome to the end. C. Scribner.
  8. Comini, Alessandra (2008). The Changing Image of Beethoven: A Study in Mythmaking. Sunstone Press. ISBN   978-0-86534-661-1.
  9. 1 2 3 "Anna Schuppe Song Texts | LiederNet". www.lieder.net. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  10. Laurence, Anya (1978). Women of Notes 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900 (1st ed.). New York: Richard Rosens Press Inc. p. 66. ISBN   0823904636.
  11. Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers : a handbook. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 43. ISBN   0-8108-1138-3. OCLC   3844725.