MARGARETE SCHWEIKERT - GERMANY
BORN 16 FEBRUARY
Margarete Schweikert was a German composer, violinist, pianist, violin teacher and music critic. After her marriage in 1923, she called herself Margarete Voigt-Schweikert.
Margarete Schweikert mainly composed songs. Her first attempts at the age of 12 were songs, as well as the first of her in a student concert at the Munz Conservatory Karlsruhe listed works. Most of her 160 songs were written between 1905 and 1920, 20 of which were printed between 1912 and 1920. In 1913, the fairytale play for children The Frog Prince was premiered with a text by Erika Ebert, to which Margarete Schweikert wrote the music. In 1914, The Frog Prince was repeated with a Christmas-patriotic foreplay and epilogue at the Grand Ducal-Baden Court Theater in Karlsruhe. In addition, she created choral works, compositions for piano and organ and chamber music for different occupations with a clear focus on her instrument, the violin. Most of these works were created as part of their studies.
Margarete Schweikert's powerful, concentrated tonal language is rooted in late-romantic harmony. In her songs, voice and piano form an inseparable musical unity. Carefully she chose her texts, which she sensitively set. In doing so, she succeeded in finding an adequate musical expression for serene, even witty subjects as well as for serious ones. The estate of Margarete Schweikert is in the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe.
Margarete Schweikert mainly composed songs. Her first attempts at the age of 12 were songs, as well as the first of her in a student concert at the Munz Conservatory Karlsruhe listed works. Most of her 160 songs were written between 1905 and 1920, 20 of which were printed between 1912 and 1920. In 1913, the fairytale play for children The Frog Prince was premiered with a text by Erika Ebert, to which Margarete Schweikert wrote the music. In 1914, The Frog Prince was repeated with a Christmas-patriotic foreplay and epilogue at the Grand Ducal-Baden Court Theater in Karlsruhe. In addition, she created choral works, compositions for piano and organ and chamber music for different occupations with a clear focus on her instrument, the violin. Most of these works were created as part of their studies.
Margarete Schweikert's powerful, concentrated tonal language is rooted in late-romantic harmony. In her songs, voice and piano form an inseparable musical unity. Carefully she chose her texts, which she sensitively set. In doing so, she succeeded in finding an adequate musical expression for serene, even witty subjects as well as for serious ones. The estate of Margarete Schweikert is in the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe.
In Meissenheim by Margarete Schweikert
Antonia Padoani Bembo (ca. 1640 – ca. 1720) was an Italian composer and singer.
She was born in Venice, the daughter of Giacomo Padoani (1603-1666), a doctor, and Diana Pareschi (1609-1676); she married the venetian noble Lorenzo Bembo (1637-1703) in 1659. She moved to Paris before 1676, possibly to leave a bad marriage. There she sang for Louis XIV. Louis granted her a pension and housing at the Petite Union Chrétienne des Dames de Saint Chaumont, a religious community. She was a contemporary of Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre and Barbara Strozzi.
Six volumes of Bembo's music survive in manuscript at the Bibliothèque nationale de France as the Produzioni armoniche, most of them dedicated to Louis XIV. These contain a certain amount of autobiographical information, which has been corroborated through other sources. She was taught by Francesco Cavalli (who also taught Barbara Strozzi) by 1654 and wrote in all the major genres of the time, including opera, secular and sacred cantatas, and petit and grand motets. Her work is a combination of French and Italian styles. She uses the virtuosic elements of Italian style of the period, as well as French dance forms. Much of her work is for soprano voice with continuo accompaniment. She wrote an opera called L'Ercole amante (1707), to a libretto by Francesco Buti.
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