Luise Adolpha Le Beau
Luise Adolpha Le Beau ( born April 25, 1850 in Rastatt, † July 17, 1927 in Baden- Baden) was a German pianist and composer.
Life
Luise Adolpha was in Rastatt, at that time, part of the Grand Duchy of Baden was born as the only daughter of an officer William Le Beau and his wife Caroline, born Barack. Following the departure of the father as a major general in the Baden army both parents began to issue in 1856, the daughter of General lessons. From his father, who was also a musician and composer, Louise was awarded as 5 years of piano lessons. Your general education, she completed a degree at a private girls' Institute at age 16 and devoted himself to music.
After her confirmation at Easter 1865, she took piano lessons from the 1866 Hofkapellmeister Wilhelm Kalliwoda in Karlsruhe. She has also received vocal lessons from Anton Haizinger. A year later she made her debut as a pianist and played in 1868, the E-flat concerto by Beethoven and the G minor concerto by Mendelssohn -Bartholdy in Karlsruhe. In 1870 she made the acquaintance of Franz Lachner and Anton Rubinstein. In 1873 she applied to piano lessons with Clara Schumann in Baden -Baden, she taught a summer long. A concert engagement in February 1874 led by Luise five cities of Holland. The tour began in Utrecht, this was followed Arnhem, Rotterdam, The Hague and finally Amsterdam.
Meanwhile, the family Le Beau had moved to Munich, as Louise had a letter from the pianist and conductor Hans von Bülow, to be accepted as a student of Josef Gabriel Rheinberger. Your teacher for counterpoint, harmony and morphology was Ernst Melchior Sachs addition, she went with Franz Lachner many of their works. 1876 was a private pupil of Joseph Rheinberger. A concert tour with singer and violinist Cecily Orgeni Bartha detention, she led in 1877 by different Bavarian cities, where she performed with his own works. From 1878, also Luise Adolpha Le Beau worked as a critic and wrote reviews for the " General German Musik-Zeitung " in Berlin.
In the same year she founded the " private music course for music and theory for daughters of the educated classes ." Le Beau dealt also with other composers ( Berlioz, Wagner, Chopin, Schumann) and nabelte more and more of Rheinberger from what ultimately led to the termination of the teaching relationship in 1880. In the summer of 1882, she wrote the score of the choral work " op.27 Ruth - Biblical scenes for soloists, chorus and orchestra ". The publisher Christian Friedrich Kahnt from Leipzig printed this choral work, which was premiered on 5 March 1883 in Munich.
In the same year she met Franz Liszt in Weimar and her " Quartet op.28 for piano, violin, viola and cello " was premiered at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. In 1884 she met the writer Luise Hitz know from which they set to music several poems. In the same year she went on a trip to Salzburg and Vienna, where she sang the acquaintance of Eduard Hanslick and Brahms made . She was also a member of the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In the Munich years until 1885, the largest productivity Le Beau falls. For instance, it won the first prize for their "Cello Sonata op.17 " in a composition contest. 1885 the family moved to Wiesbaden. Again, some were performed by Louise's work. In addition to composing, she taught music theory and singing. A new family moves took place in 1890 in Berlin and Louise benefited from the good opportunities to study in the Royal Library, which they entrusted their works later for storage. In Berlin, she came among others in contact with Woldemar Bargiel, Joseph Joachim and Philipp Spitta.
One last time the family moved in 1893 and settled back down in Baden-Baden, was where " op.40 Hadumoth for soloists, chorus and orchestra " premiered on 19 November the same year. Over the next few years, several works were created, including "Symphony op.41 for orchestra ", which was premiered in 1895 in Baden -Baden. Her father William died in 1896 at the of a stroke and Louise went to live with their dependents, nearly blind mother in Baden -Baden alone. In the summer of 1897 Luise Adolpha Le Beau finished its work on the score of the symphonic poem " Hohenbaden ", which was premiered on 25 February 1898 in a symphony concert in Baden -Baden. In 1900, her mother died.
The last major chamber work of Luise Adolpha Le Beau, the "String Quintet op.54 for 2 violins, viola and two cellos " in 1901 included, but not installed. In 1902, their only opera was the fairy-tale opera " The Enchanted Caliph op.55 " ( free after Wilhelm Hauff ), which she dedicated her parents. Other compositions (piano pieces, songs, choruses of op.56 to op.65a ) followed in the coming years. The piano music has a weighty share of the compositional work and runs like a red thread through the work of the composer and pianist: Fantasy Pieces, Op 1/1, Concert Etude Op 2, Original Theme and Variations Opus 3, Sonata op. 8, Eight Preludes Op 12, Improvisata op 30, Ballade, Op 47, Three Old dances, Op 48 Funeral March, Op 53, Three Piano pieces, Op 57 Barcarolle op 59, In the Forest, Op 63, Abendklänge op. 64th
On a trip to Rome in 1902, she met the singer Alfredo de'Giorgio know. In the years 1906-1910 she was staying over and over again in Italy. In 1910 she wrote her autobiography "Memoirs of a composer ". Her last years were marked by travel, teaching, composing and giving concerts, as well as writing music reviews for the Baden bath sheet.
On July 17, 1927 Louise Adolpha Le Beau died at the age of 77 years in Baden -Baden. She was buried next to her parents at the city cemetery. In memory of the musician, the city Baden-Baden has designated their music library by Luise Adolpha Le Beau and a plaque in the street Lichtenaler 46 was installed on 23 July 2004.