Amanda Röntgen-Maier - Piano Quartet (1891)

Описание: Amanda Röntgen-Maier (20 February 1853 – 15 July 1894) was a Swedish violinist and composer. She was the first female graduate in music direction from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 1872.

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Piano Quartet in E minor

1. Allegro (0:00)
2. Presto (8:39)
3. Andante (12:47)
4. Largo espressivo - Allegro vivace - Presto (18:46)

Ann-Sofi Klingberg, piano
Gregory Maytan, violin
Bernt Lysell, viola
Sara Wijk, cello

Manuscript score (Christmas 1891). Mvt. 1: Dec. 4. Mvt. 3: Dec. 12. Mvt. 4: Oct. 23. Manuscript in ink with corrections in pencil.
Amanda Maier extensively reworked the manuscript with much of the materials discarded. The used materials are often reworked and are as such not always exactly identical to the printed edition the performers are using.
I kept the order of the movements the same as in the manuscript score.

The piano quartet in E minor was her final composition which she created on a trip to Norway in 1891. Edvard and Nina Grieg were close friends of the Rontgen family. I wouldn't be surprised if Edvard, Amanda, Julius and others read through the manuscript Christmas 1891.

Amanda Maier was born into a musical home in Landskrona and discovered her musical talent early. Her first instruction in violin and piano was from her father. At the age of sixteen, Maier began studying at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where she studied violin, organ, piano, cello, composition and harmony.

Maier performed violin concerts in both Sweden and abroad. She continued to study composition with the conservatory teachers Reinecke and Richter in Leipzig and violin from Engelbert Röntgen, concert master at Gewandhaus Orchestra in the same city. During this time she composed a violin sonata, a piano trio and a violin concerto for orchestra. Her violin concerto was premiered in 1875 with Maier as soloist and received good reviews.

In Leipzig she met the German-Dutch pianist and composer Julius Röntgen (1855–1932), her violin teacher's son. The couple married in 1880 in Landskrona and moved to Amsterdam. The marriage ended Amanda's public appearances, but she continued composing, and the couple arranged musical salons and music performances in Europe, with audience members including Nina and Edvard Grieg, Anton Rubinstein, Joseph Joachim, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms. In the late 1870s Maier also met Ethel Smyth, who was studying in Leipzig. They became friends and continued corresponding until Maier's death.

In 1887 Röntgen-Maier became ill with tuberculosis. During her illness, the couple stayed in Nice and Davos. Her final major composition was the piano quartet in E minor on a trip to Norway in 1891. She died in 1894 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands