Teresa Carreño

María Teresa Carreño García de Sena ( born December 22, 1853 in Caracas, † June 12, 1917 in New York) was a Venezuelan pianist and composer.

Life and work

Teresa Carreño was a world-famous pianist of her time, she was regarded as the most important of her time. Frequently it has been referred to as " Empress of the piano " and " Valkyrie of the piano ".

Her father, Manuel Antonio Carreño, was a Venezuelan politician, at times he was foreign and finance ministers. He was a gifted amateur pianist, also the author of the well-known Spanish-language and often placed etiquette book Compendio del manual de buenas y urbanidad maneras, a kind of Spanish etiquette. Her mother was Clorinda García de Sena y Toro, whose father was a musician. My paternal grandfather, José Cayetano Carreño (1774-1836), was an important Venezuelan composer. His first piano lessons when she was about your father. Later, the German - Venezuelan pianist Julio Hohené was her teacher.

1862 the family emigrated because of a revolution in the U.S., where Teresa was in New York taught by Louis Moreau Gottschalk. On November 28 1862 she gave her first concert as a nine- year-old in New York's Irving Hall, 1866, she played at the White House Abraham Lincoln.

In the same year she went to Paris, where she studied piano with Anton Rubinstein and Chopin's pupil Georges Mathias and also gave concerts throughout Europe. Celebrity she became known for their European tour from 1889 to 1890; November 18, 1889, she made ​​her debut in Berlin.

From 1873 to 1875 she was married to the composer Émile Sauret, from 1876 to 1885 with the Italian baritone Giovanni Tagliapietra. With Tagliapietra, she led an Italian opera in Caracas, in which she performed as a singer. From this marriage ended on December 24, 1882 shows the daughter Teresita Tagliapietra - Carreño, the pianist was also a significant. On January 7, 1885, the son Giovanni was born.

In his third marriage, she was married from September 1892 to October 1895 with Eugen d' Albert, with whom she Kötitz in Saxony, today Coswig lived in their villa Teresa. With him she had two more daughters, Eugenia (born 27 Sept. 1892) and Hertha (born 26 Sept. 1894). From 1902 she was with Arturo Tagliapietra, the brother of her second husband, married and lived when she was not traveling in Berlin on the Kurfürstendamm. In addition to her concert tours through Europe, America and Australia, they emerged as a composer of brilliant piano pieces and also composed a string quartet.

From her school were significant pianists - as Edward MacDowell (1861-1908) and Télémaque Lambrino (1878-1930) - out. Rudolf Maria Breithaupt (1873-1945) dedicated his modern methodical piano work " The natural piano technique, the champion Teresa Carreño ". Teresa Carreño has taken on April 2, 1905 a total of 18 works for the reproduction of piano Welte - Mignon, including a then and now as a fantastic played perceived receiving the Waldstein Sonata by Beethoven. daughter Teresita played in 1906 also for a Welte-Mignon recordings.

The Freiburg University Library and the Augustiner Museum in Freiburg have several 1905 -rehearsed her music rolls for the Welte-Mignon reproducing pianos with works by Schumann, Liszt, Chopin and Beethoven, as well as his own compositions. ( Complejo Cultural Teresa Carreño - Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex ) In April 1983, the Teatro Teresa Carreño named after her was opened in Caracas.

Trivia

Frequently it is attributed to the composition of the Venezuelan National Anthem Gloria al bravo pueblo, but this is wrong. However, they composed two choral works with national character: Himno a Bolivar and El Himno a Ilustre Americano.

Works

Piano Works

• Gottschalk Valse, Op. 1
• Caprice Polka, Op. 2
• Corbeille des fleurs, Valse, Op. 9
• Polka de Concert, Op. 13
• Fantaisie sur Norma, Op. 14
• Ballade, Op. 15
• Plainte, première élégie, Op. 17
• Game, deuxième élégie, Op. 18
• Elegies, Op. 20, Plaintes au bord d'une tombe ( 4 Elegy )
• Elegies, Op. 21, Plaintes au bord d'une tombe ( 4 Elegy )
• Fantaisie sur L' Africaine, Op. 24
• Le Printemps, Op. 25
• Un Bal en Rêve, Op. 26
• Une revue à Prague, Op. 27
• Un rêve en mer, Méditation, Op. 28
• Six Etudes de Concert, Op. 29
• Mazurka de salon, Op. 30
• Scherzo - Caprice, Op. 31
• Deux Esquisses Italiennes Op. 33 Venise, No. 1
• Florence, No. 2

Works for chorus and orchestra

• Himno a Bolívar (1883 or 1885)
• Himno a Ilustre El Americano (1886 )

Other works

• String Quartet for 2 Violins, Viola, Violoncello, in B minor (1895 )
• Serenade for String Orchestra ( 1895)