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Anna Teichmüller

Anna Teichmüller

German composer (1861–1940)

Anna Teichmüller (11 May 1861 – 6 September 1940)[1] was a German composer and teacher[2] who set the works of many poets, especially Carl Hauptmann,[3] to music. She composed most of her works at the Schreiberhau artist colony.[4]

Teichmüller was born in Göttingen, the oldest child of Anna von Cramer and Gustav Teichmüller. The family lived in Tartu, Estonia, during her childhood, where Gustav was a university professor. After his wife's death in childbirth in 1862, Gustav married her sister Lina, and they had eight more children.[5]

Teichmüller studied music in Jena and Berlin.[6] She met Carl Hauptmann in Jena in 1893, and he persuaded her to move to the artist colony[7] in Schreiberhau (then in Prussia; today known as Szklarska Poręba, Poland), where she lived until the end of her life.[4] Hauptmann dedicated his book Aus meinem Tagebuch München (From My Munich Diary) to Teichmüller.[8]

Although Teichmüller was known as Hauptmann's "Liederbraut" (bride of song), she composed music for the works of many writers, ranging from opus 1 through at least opus 43.[9] The writers included Anton Alexander Graf von Auersperg (as Anastasius Grün), Ferdinand Avenarius, Hans Bethge, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Marianne Blaauw, Grete Ziegler-Bock, Wolrad Eigenbrodt, Feodora, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (as F. Hugin), Friedrich Ludwig Konrad Fiedler, Friedrich Hebbel, Gottfried Keller, Nikolaus Lenau, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Hans Reisiger, Rainer Maria Rilke, Leopold von Schroeder, Paul Verlaine, and Friedl Zacharias.[10]

In addition to songs, Teichmüller composed chamber music and at least one opera.[11] Her music is published by Classical Vocal Reprints[12] and Hildegarde Publishing Company.[4] Her works include:

Chamber

  • Forest Night, opus 22 (voice, cello and piano)[9]
  • Hymn to the Night, opus 23 (soprano, baritone, cello and piano)[9]
  • Suite, opus 41 (violin and piano)[9]

Mass

  • Missa Poetica (text by Ilse von Stach)[4]

Songs

References

  1. [1]
    Modersohn-Becker, Paula (1983). Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals. Taplinger Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-8008-6264-0.
  2. [2]
    Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  3. [3]
    Pese, Claus; Nationalmuseum, Germanisches (2001). Künstlerkolonien in Europa: im Zeichen der Ebene und des Himmels : Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, 15. November 2001 bis 17. Februar 2002 (in German). Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums. ISBN 978-3-926982-81-0.
  4. [4]
    "Hildegard Publishing - Music by Women Composers". www.hildegard.com. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  5. [5]
    "Anna Teichmuller". geni_family_tree. 1861. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  6. [6]
    Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. [7]
    "Iron Men of the Artist Colony in Worpswede". Culture.pl. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  8. [8]
    The Nation. J.H. Richards. 1910.
  9. [9]
    Fünf Gedichte von Carl Hauptmann für eine Singstimme und Klavierbegleitung, Op. 1: No. 2 Windlied, retrieved 2021-08-11
  10. [10]
    "Anna Teichmüller (1861 - 1940) - Vocal Texts and Translations at the LiederNet Archive". www.lieder.net. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  11. [11]
    Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall. ISBN 0-8161-8498-4. OCLC 6815939.
  12. [12]
    "Classical Vocal Reprints - Search - Sheet Music PDF Downloads". www.classicalvocalreprints.com. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
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