Milanollo

Teresa Milanollo ( born August 28, 1827 in Savigliano, † October 25th 1904 in Paris) was an Italian violinist and composer.

Life

After the first lesson in Savigliano and Turin, she received her musical education further in Paris and Brussels. The first concerts found mid-1830s, first in Italy, from 1836 in France and increasingly in other Western European countries instead. Together with her younger sister Mary, who was regularly since 1840 at the Teresa Milanollos side on stage, they gave concerts in childhood and became famous in the 1840s as a child prodigy. After Mary died in 1848 of tuberculosis, Teresa continued her career under the management of her father continued, and was also famous as an adult even as a violinist. Numerous appearances at charity events reinforced the image of the meek ​​and charitable woman, that she embodied. Towards the middle of the century took off her popularity and she retired after her marriage back into private life.

The sisters Milanollo left in Adalbert Stifter's story Two Sisters ( 1850) and Theodor Fontane's novel Mrs. Jenny Treibel (1892 ) literary traces. Teresa Milanollos compositions, however, are largely forgotten.

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