Emilie Mayer

Emilie ( Luise Friederika ) Mayer ( born May 14, 1812 in Friedland (Mecklenburg), † April 10, 1883 in Berlin) was a German composer.

Life

Emilie Mayer was born as the daughter of the Council pharmacist August Friedrich Mayer (1777-1840) in the small town of Friedland in Mecklenburg -Strelitz, the light of the world. She was the fourth child of her parents. Two brothers were later pharmacist in Szczecin.

Emilie received 5 - year his first piano lessons by a Friedländer organist and was at the beginning of the 1840s student of Carl Loewe at Stettin. She completed further musical studies (probably from 1847 in Berlin, among others, Adolf Bernhard Marx) and has traveled to Vienna, Halle, Hamburg, Pasewalk and Szczecin. Later she lived in Berlin with occasional longer stays in Szczecin.

Emilie Mayer remained unmarried. She led in Berlin own open house and had other contacts with important personalities of the social and aristocratic life. She found on the Trinity Cemetery I in Berlin- Kreuzberg their final resting. However, your grave is untraceable.

Works

Emilie Mayer left an extensive musical work, which is described by Almut Runge- wool thoroughly, indicating the sites and publishers. She composed eight symphonies, twelve string quartets, piano chamber music, fifteen concert overtures, violin and cello sonatas, piano pieces, a musical play by Goethe, songs and four -part choirs. Her compositions came after her death largely forgotten - a fate she shares with many female composers.

Honors

Queen Elizabeth of Prussia awarded her a medal, and in Munich, she was made ​​an honorary member of the Philharmonic Society.