Wilma Neruda

Wilhelmine Maria Franziska " Wilma " Neruda ( born March 29, 1839 in Brno, at the time of Austria- Hungary, † April 15, 1911 in Berlin) was a significant Moravian violinist.

Life

Wilma Neruda was the daughter of the Brno cathedral organist Josef Neruda ( born January 16, 1807 in Mohelenská, District Trebitsch, † February 18, 1875 in Brno ). She received her siblings music lessons from her father. After the family moved to Vienna, she studied with Leopold Jansa. She has appeared as a six- year-old in 1845 with success publicly, while she was playing a sonata by Johann Sebastian Bach. Later she undertook with her sister Maria (born 1844), a pianist, and his brother Franz Xaver Neruda ( 1843-1915 ), a cellist, a longer concert tours through European cities. Since 1864, she was married to the Swedish royal court music Ludvig Norman in Stockholm and had a son with this, Ludwig Norman Neruda ( 1864-1898 ), who was a well-known mountaineer. She lived since 1870, mostly in London, where she Charles Hallé both solo and as a quartet player standing with the London pianist Sir as in high esteem and had worldwide success. Its special patrons were the kings of England, Denmark and Sweden. After the death of Ludvig Norman 1885 she married Sir Charles Hallé in 1888. She was considered the most famous violinist of her time. After 1900 she worked as a violin teacher at the Conservatory in Berlin. After the death Halles, she moved with her ​​son to Asolo in northern Italy, where she lived until his death in 1898. Wilma Neruda died in Berlin in 1911.

Honors

• Henri Vieuxtemps dedicated his handling of Faust by Gounod's opera fantasy.

• Niels Gade dedicated his Sonata (No. 3 ) for violin and piano, Op 59

• The Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda literature is his pseudonym Neruda their lead to honor.