Mathilde Verne

Mathilde Verne (aka: Mathilde Wurm, born May 25, 1865 in Southampton, † June 4, 1936 in London) was an English pianist and music teacher.

Life

The daughter of the originating in Germany, organist and music teacher John Evangelist worm was immediately informed her sisters Mary worm, Alice Verne - Bredt and Adela Verne from this and her mother and has already appeared in her childhood as a pianist on. She studied with Franklin Taylor at the Royal College of Music, London and the mid-1880s at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt with Clara Schumann.

After returning to London, she began a successful career as a pianist. She made her debut at the Saturday Popular Concerts at St. James Hall with Wilma Norman - Neruda and Alfredo Piatti in Mendelssohn C minor Trio, led Beethoven's C minor Piano Concerto under the direction of George Henschel at the London Symphony Concerts and stepped from 1903-1907 regularly at the Queen's Hall promenade Concerts under the direction of Henry Wood and 1908-1912 at the Sunday afternoon concert.

In 1907 she founded with Beatrice Langley at the Aeolian Hall Thursday the Twelve O'Clocks, a chamber music concert series, which had nearly thirty years of existence. As a soloist, she has focused particularly on the works of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

Already in Frankfurt Verne began to teach, it was, inter alia, the teacher of Clara Schumann's granddaughter Julie. In London, she took a short time Edward Dannreuther at the Royal College of Music. After giving a long time private lessons, she founded in 1909 with her sister Alice Mathilde Verne School of Pianoforte Playing (later Mathilde Verne College of Music), which existed until the 1930s and had an excellent reputation. According to the company Verne has taught 1400 students in the course of their lives, including musicians such as Moura Lympany, Herbert Menges, Thomas Dunhill, Harold Samuel, Solomon Cutner and her nephew John Vallier and Elizabeth Bowes -Lyon, later the " Queen Mom ".

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  • MUGI - Music and Gender on the Internet - Encyclopedia - Mathilde Verne
  • Schumann Portal - Mathilde Verne
  • Keyboard Giants - Verne & Vallier
  • Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia - Verne Mathilde
  • Classic pianist
  • Music teacher
  • Born 1865
  • Died in 1936
  • Woman
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