Marie Bigot
Anne Marie Catherine Marie Bigot de Morogues, born Kiene ( March 3, 1786 in Colmar, † September 16, 1820 in Paris) was a French pianist and composer.
Life
Marie Bigot was a daughter from the marriage of the violinist Joseph Kiene with pianist Catharina lyre. The family moved in 1791 Neuchâtel, where Marie on July 9, 1804, French nobleman Paul Bigot de Morogues ( born May 25, 1765 in Berlin ) married, with whom she moved to Vienna in the same year. Bigot was there a job as a librarian at the Russian ambassador and patron of Beethoven, Count Andrey Razumovsky.
During their years in Vienna, she was personally acquainted with many musicians, including Joseph Haydn. In one anecdote says, " When they played the first time before Haydn, this venerable old man was so moved that he concluded in his arms and enthusiastically exclaimed, 'Oh, my dear girl, that's not me who made this music, you yourself have composed it ' [ ... ] in the same piece, which she had played him, he wrote by hand: on February 20, 1805 Joseph Haydn 's been happy. '. " Shortly thereafter, she appeared in March / April 1805 for the first time in a concert by the wholesaler Würth on a B flat major piano concerto by Mozart.
She was also at times a piano student of Ludwig van Beethoven, who became friends with her and her husband Paul, of which several letters testify. Narrated 's also an anecdote to the effect that Beethoven said to her interpretation of one of his piano sonatas: "That's not exactly the character I wanted to give the piece ... but they continue; the 'm not quite me, that's better than me. "This may refer to the famous Appassionata, the autograph of which Beethoven gave away after printing to Marie Bigot.
At least four letters from Beethoven to the couple Bigot have been preserved: the first dated March 4, 1807 and included a (naive ) Invitation to Marie Bigot and her little sister Caroline for a drive in the sunshine - when her husband was absent. Meanwhile excessively jealous reaction was then prompted a detailed letter of apology to both spouses, the oft-quoted sentence: " ... ohnedem it is one of my first principles, never to stand in another than friendship Lichen relation with the wife of another. "
Joseph Schmidt- Görg suspected (1966 ) that Marie Bigot also those " M. " is in the following diary-like note of Beethoven in the summer of 1807, when he was in Baden bei Wien: " Only love - yes only you can give you a live happier to give - oh God - they let me - those last find - which reinforces my virtue - which allowed me my being - Baaden vorbeyfuhr on 24th july as the M and it seemed as if they looked at me - ". In contrast, Harry Goldschmidt argues, the note refers to Beethoven's love for Josephine Brunsvik that he at least twelve, partly wrote passionate love letters in the years 1804-1807; a love affair that Josephine pressure on their noble family - among other things its in the family correspondence is only as " M. " said mother, Countess Anna von Brunswick - in 1807 broke off: " In contrast to Marie Bigot their presence in swimming is to the time in question in any case bezeugbar. (...) The vision of the past moving, looking at him mother called immediately the unresolved conflict with the daughter in the affected awake. "
Beginning in 1809 reversed the music writer and composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt at Marie Bigot and wrote about it on January 26, 1809, to his wife: "Of the many large and small music that I heard back in the last days, and with which I whole arc could fill if I wanted to call you all, or even describe, because lives and moves all in music here, I have to call you but a very pleasant evening at Madame de Bigot especially. She had me held him to favor the large Beethovschen to let me hear it sonatas and trio, of which I spoke to her last with great participation. [ ... ] Wife of Bigot had the violinist Schupanzig invited to its excellent talent is nowhere certain and perfect pronunciation, as in the lecture Beethovschen things. He accompanied the evening, the excellent match of the virtuoso with all its subtlety and piquant originality. She played five major sonatas by Beethoven quite masterfully; One was more glorious than the other; It was the heyday of a full lush life as an artist. In all the things is a stream of imagination, a depth of feeling for which there are no words, only sounds, and which only come to the heart and from the heart of such an artist who lives and quite awake with her his art dreaming, dreaming and waking. A small, fairly chosen company to a round tea table also enjoyed any sound at all intimately. "
End of 1809 moved Marie Bigot with her family to Paris, where she became a much sought-after piano teacher. There she made the acquaintance of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. She died at the age of 34 from tuberculosis.
Works
- Piano Sonata in B- flat major, Op 1, about 1806
- Varié Andante B- flat major, Op 2, 1805 - Reprint ed. by Dieter M. Backes, Certosa Publisher
- Rondeau, 1818
- Suite d' études, 1817/18 - 1992 edition