Marie Soldat-Roeger
Marie Soldat-Roeger (born in Graz (Styria), March 25, 1863, died in Graz (Styria), September 30, 1955) was a violin master and virtuoso active in orchestral and chamber music in the Vienna of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. A pupil of violin master Joseph Joachim, she was born 'Marie Soldat', but in 1889 married a lawyer named Roeger.
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Marie Soldat-Roeger was discovered by Brahms when she was a girl of 15; for many years she was the only woman to play his violin concerto. In 1895 she founded the celebrated, all-female Soldat-Roeger Quartet, whose viola-player was Natalie Bauer-Lechner.
Bibliography
- Spemanns „Goldenes Buch der Musik“, Berlin/Stuttgart 1909, Kro. 1201-1205
- Neue musikalische Presse 8, 1899, Nr.14, 2. April 1899, S.6/7, Wien
- B. Kühnen, Die Geige war ihr Leben. Drei Geigerinnen im Portrait, Wien, 2000
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