Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté

Sophie -Carmen ( Sonia) Eckhardt - Gramatté ( born Fridman - Kotschewskaja; born January 6, 1899 in Moscow, † December 2, 1974 in Stuttgart) was a piano and violin virtuoso and composer of Russian descent.

Eckhardt - Grammatté studied at the Conservatoire in Paris with Alfred Brun and Guillaume Rémy violin, Sophie Chene piano and Vincent d' Indy and Camille Chevillard composition and occurred in concert tours throughout Western Europe with his own works on. In 1920 she married the painter Walter Gramatté in Berlin.

After his death in 1929, she took with Max Trapp in Berlin further composition lessons from 1935 and devoted himself exclusively to composition. In 1934 she married the journalist and art historian Ferdinand Eckhardt and moved to Vienna. In 1953, the couple lived in Winnipeg / Canada. Sophie Eckardt Gramatté died in 1974 in Stuttgart at the consequences of an accident. Your discount will be kept by the Eckhardt - Gramatté Foundation.

Eckhardt - Gramatté composed a symphony, an orchestra concert, a Triple Concerto for trumpet, clarinet, bassoon, strings and timpani, three piano and two violin concertos, a piece for two pianos and orchestra, a bassoon concerto, chamber music and pieces for piano and for solo violin.