Adele Lewing

Adele Lewing (6 August 1866 [1] – 16 February 1943) was a German pianist and composer.

Adele Lewing
Born(1866-08-06)6 August 1866
Hanover
Died16 February 1943(1943-02-16) (aged 74)
New York City
Occupation
  • Pianist
  • Composer

Early years and education

Lewing was born in Hanover in 1868. She was educated in classical music by her grandfather, A. C. Prell, the principal cellist in the Hanover Court Orchestra, a pupil of Bernhard Romberg; and in piano by Johannes Moeller, a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles. At the age of 14, she made her first public appearance. Later, she became the student of Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn at the Leipzig conservatory, studying also harmony with the latter.[2] Reinecke selected Lewing to play Mendelssohn's first Cello Sonata in the Mendelssohn celebration, and she was also chosen to play the F minor suite by Handel in a concert in honor of the King of Saxony. On 30 April 1884 Lewing played Beethoven's concerto in G major, on her first appearance in the public examination in the Leipzig Gewandhaus. Reinecke selected Lewing to play his quintet, Op. 82, in another concert on 10 May 1884. In her last public examination concert, she played Beethoven's concerto in E-flat major, and graduated from the Leipzig Royal Conservatory "with high honours".[3]

Lewing continued her studies in Vienna, the piano with Theodor Leschetizky, and composition with Robert Fuchs. She composed piano music and Lieder.[2]

Career

She came unheralded to America, formed a class of piano pupils in Chicago, and gave her first public concert in that city on 7 December 1888 in the Weber Music Hall. She played before the Artists' Club, in the Haymarket concerts and numerous others. On 27 June 1889, she played before the Indiana State Music Teachers' Association. On 5 July 1889, she played in the 13th meeting of the Music Teachers' National Association, in Philadelphia, and in August of the same year, she gave a series of piano recitals in the Elberon Casino in New Jersey. Her concert tour to Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis and other cities took place in the early part of May 1890. Lewing was a composer as well, and in her youth, she wrote poetry.[3] Lewing continued performing on the radio throughout the 1920s[4][5][6] and into the early 1930s.[7]

Personal life

In 1900 in Harlem, Lewing married Benjamin W. Stiefel, a professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. She and Stiefel had met when she was a student at the Leipzig Conservatory 15 years previously.[8] They had one child, a daughter in 1904.[9]

Stiefel died 16 February 1943 in New York City, New York.[10]

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References
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: F. E. Willard's A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (1893)
  1. "Lewing, Adele : Oxford Music Online - oi".
  2. Vierhaus, Rudolf (2006). Adele Lewing. Kraatz – Menges (in German). Walter de Gruyter. p. 410. ISBN 9783110940275. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  3. Willard 1893, p. 460.
  4. "Station WNAC, Boston, Mass". Portsmouth, New Hampshire: The Portsmouth Herald. 21 July 1923. p. 3. Retrieved 31 January 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Tomorrow's Early Program, WEAF (Manhattan)". Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 6 May 1924. p. 32. Retrieved 31 January 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Today's Radio". Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 26 October 1926. p. 16. Retrieved 31 January 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "570K-WNYC-526M". Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 15 September 1931. p. 12. Retrieved 31 January 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "A Musical Romance" (684). Gore, New Zealand: Mataura Ensign. 11 January 1900. p. 6. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  9. "United States Census, 1940". 31-1275 New York City, Manhattan Borough Assembly District 14: US National Archives. 3 April 1940. p. image 3 of 38. Retrieved 31 January 2016.CS1 maint: location (link)
  10. "'Song Without Words' Composer, 82 Dies". Decatur, Illinois: The Decatur Daily Review. 18 February 1943. p. 17. Retrieved 31 January 2016 – via Newspapers.com.

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