Dolphin [2] von Schauroth ( German: Delphine von Schauroth ; March 13, 1813 [3] , Magdeburg - 1887 ) is a German pianist and composer.
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The daughter of Eduard Friedrich Roger Georg von Schaurot (1774-1829), an officer in the Prussian, and then in the French service. From childhood, she lived in Paris, where she studied with Friedrich Kalkbrenner . She made her debut in 1822 in Frankfurt , the next year began international touring activities - speaking, in particular, in London (among other things, with the Impromptu dedicated to her on the Irish song "The Testament of the Bard" Op. 69 of her teacher Kalkbrenner); Ignaz Mosheles, who was present at this concert, noted the great abilities of the young pianist [4] .
The death of his father in 1829 jeopardized the family’s financial situation, and Dolphin von Schaurot and his mother even considered moving to Brazil, but eventually settled in Bavaria. In Munich in 1830, the seventeen-year-old Delphine became close to Felix Mendelssohn , who was considering the possibility of marrying her. Mendelssohn's first piano concerto (1831) is dedicated to Dolphin von Schaurot; Mendelssohn wrote to Fanny’s sister that Dolphin wrote a wonderful passage in the notes of the concert (it is not known which place in the concert it is) [5] .
Schaurot's concert career was interrupted by her first short marriage (1833–1837) with the Englishman Edwin Hill-Handley (1806–1843), who had come to Munich to meet Friedrich Schelling , whose work he was going to translate into English. Most of this time the couple spent in England, in the suburbs of Worcester . Dolphin von Schaurot devoted this time to composition; piano sonata in C minor (1834) provoked an enthusiastic (albeit partially appealing to the author’s appearance) review by Robert Schumann , who called von Schaurot and Clara Wieck Amazons in the special brilliant realm of female music [6] . In 1836, a son was born to the spouses of Hill Handley, the poet William Wordsworth became his godfather. However, a year later, the couple divorced, and Dolphin Hill-Handley, leaving her son to her ex-husband, returned to her mother in Munich; it is believed that she was patronized by the Dowager Queen Carolina of Baden , who also belonged to the Protestant minority in Catholic Bavaria. However, the pianist’s performances were apparently limited to charity concerts.
In the years 1848-1850. the second marriage of Dolphins von Schaurot took place, the marriage with Baron Stefan von Ebert again ended in divorce. The third marriage to Edward Knight (1856) was also unsuccessful. Throughout the 1860s the pianist sporadically appeared on the concert stage, performing a farewell concert on February 4, 1870 in Leipzig (the main place in the program was occupied by the works of Mendelssohn). Nothing is known about the last years of Dolphin von Schaurot's life.
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- ↑ 1 2 http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Schauroth%2C_Delphine_von
- ↑ Sometimes mistakenly Adolfin .
- ↑ Sometimes mistakenly 1814.
- ↑ Aus Moscheles Leben nach Briefen und Tagebüchern, hrsg. v. seiner frau. - Leipzig, 1872. - Bd. 1 .-- S. 76.
- ↑ Stephan D. Lindeman. Structural Novelty and Tradition in the Early Romantic Piano Concerto. - Pendragon Press, 1999 .-- P. 87.
- ↑ Aus den Büchern der Davidsbündler. Sonaten für Pianoforte // Robert Schumann. Gesammelte Schriften über Musik und Musiker. - Leipzig: Georg Wigand's Verlag, 1854. - Bd. 1. - S. 92.