Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf

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Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf
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Ingeborg Bronsart
Born
Ingeborg Maria Wilhelmina Starck

24 August 1840
Died17 June 1913
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
OccupationComposer

Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf (born Ingeborg Maria Wilhelmina Starck, [1] 24 August 1840 in Saint Petersburg, died 17 June 1913 in Munich) was a Finland-Swedish and German composer.

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Life

Ingeborg Starck was the daughter of Finland-Swedish parents Margareta Åkerman and Otto Starck (originally Tarkiain[en])[ clarification needed ] who were living in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where her father, a court saddle-maker, [1] was involved in commerce. Her native language was Swedish. [2] Having shown musical gifts from a young age, she studied piano with Nicolas von Martinoff and Adolf Henselt, as well as composition with Constantin Decker. She completed her studies in Weimar with Franz Liszt. During a stay in Paris in 1861 her friends included composers such as Auber, Berlioz, Rossini and Wagner. In September of the same year, she married fellow pianist-composer Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff, a member of Liszt's circle whom she had met in Weimar. [3]

Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf toured Europe as a concert pianist until 1867, when she was expected to cease work due to her husband's appointment as general manager of the Royal Theatre in Hanover. She remained musically active as a composer of opera, chamber and instrumental music and a large number of songs. Earlier, she had composed a piano concerto (1863), now lost. During her lifetime her operas were successfully produced in many theatres in Germany. [3] Pieces composed by her which were popular at the time included her Kaiser Wilhelm March (1871), the Singspiel Jery und Bätely (1873) and the opera Hiarne (1891).

Works

Operas

Concertos

Orchestral works

Chamber music

Piano music

Choral music

Songs

(Text: Heinrich Heine)
(Text: A. Dunker, E. Neubauer, H. Zeise)
(Text: Heine, O. Roquette)
... 3. Ich hab' im Traum geweinet
(Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, August von Platen, Friedrich Rückert)
(Text: Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt after Mirza Shafi Vazeh)
1. Zuléikha; 2. Im Garten klagt die Nachtigall; 3. Wenn der Frühling auf die Berge steigt; 4. Gelb rollt mir zu Füßen; 5. Die helle Sonne leuchtet; 6. Ich fühle deinen Odem
(Text: Bodenstedt after Mirza Shafi)
(Text: Bodenstedt)
1. Mir träumte einst ein schöner Traum; 2. Abschied vom Kaukasus; 3. Wie lächeln die Augen; 4. Nachtigall, o Nachtigall; 5. Das Vöglein; 6. Sing, mit Sonnenaufgang singe
(Text: Jakobi)
(Text: Bodenstedt)
(Text: Richard Voss)
(Text: Ernst von Wildenbruch)
1. Abendlied; 2. Ständchen; 3. Zwei Sträusse; 4. Der Blumenstrauss 5. Letzte Bitte
(Text: Klaus Groth)
(Text: Goethe)
(Text: Michail Lermontov)
(Text: Peter Cornelius)
(Text: Goethe, Nikolaus Lenau, Platen)
(Text: Paul Heyse)
(Text: Alfred de Musset)
(Text: Bodenstedt, Goethe, Heine)
... 3. Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen (Heine)
(Text: Felix Dahn)
(Text: Bodenstedt)
(Text: Paul Heyse)

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References

  1. 1 2 Pieniä löytöjä – Starck. Genos, 1965 (vol. 36), pp. 68–69. (In Finnish.)
  2. Välimäki, Susanna (7 October 2020). "Pidättekö Bronsartista?". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). p. B4.
  3. 1 2 "Obituary: Ingeborg von Bronsart (Née Stark)". The Musical Times . 54 (847). Musical Times Publications Ltd.: 607 1 September 1913. JSTOR   908070.(subscription required)

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