Elisabeth von Herzogenberg née Elisabet von Stockhausen (born in Paris on 13 April 1847; died in Sanremo on 7 January 1892) was a German pianist, composer, singer and philanthropist.
Biography
Her father had served as a Hanoverian ambassador and was a pianist linked to Frédéric Chopin and Charles-Valentin Alkan. Although a Protestant, she married the Catholic Heinrich von Herzogenberg. She is known in large part for her association with Johannes Brahms, with whom she studied and with whom she and her husband corresponded copiously. As an aristocratic musician, she largely did not perform or publish for the public, but did arrange children's folk songs. Her lover, the composer Ethel Smyth, devoted chapter XX of Impressions That Remained: Memoirs to her.
Edited works
- 24 Volkskinderlieder for voice and piano (1881)
- 8 Klavierstücke
References
- Peter Clive (2 October 2006). Brahms and His World: A Biographical Dictionary. Scarecrow Press. pp. 216–218. ISBN 978-1-4617-2280-9.
- The Online Books Page at UPenn
- Ruth A. Solie (1995). Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship. University of California Press. pp. 126–127. ISBN 978-0-520-20146-0.
- Paul Berry (April 2014). Brahms Among Friends: Listening, Performance, and the Rhetoric of Allusion. OUP USA. pp. 3–6. ISBN 978-0-19-998264-6.
- Ethel Smyth (16 April 2013). Impressions That Remained - Memoirs of Ethel Smyth. Read Books Limited. pp. XIII. ISBN 978-1-4465-4542-3.
- "8 Klavierstücke (Herzogenberg, Elisabeth von) - IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download". imslp.org. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
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