Margarethe Quidde
Margarethe Quidde (''née'' Jacobson; 11 June 1858 – 25 April 1940) was a German cellist, writer, music educator, and pianist. Early life Margarethe Jacobson was born in Königsberg in 1858, the daughter of Julius Jacobson (ophthalmologist), Julius Jacobson (or Jacobsohn), an eye specialist, and Hermine Haller Jacobson, an opera singer. She studied piano, cello, voice, and composition as a young woman, in Prussia and later in Berlin with Woldemar Bargiel and Robert Hausmann. She pursued further training on the cello with Carlo Alfredo Piatti from 1880 to 1882, in Cadenabbia. She corresponded about her musical education with Joseph Joachim.Katja Franz"Margarethe Quidde" ''Europäische Instrumentalistinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts'' Sophie-Drinker-Institut (2014). Career Margarethe Jacobson was a professional musician in Vienna and Munich as a young woman, before she married in 1882. Although she gave up her performing career, she continued as a music writer for the ''M ...
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Königsberg
Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named in honour of King Ottokar II of Bohemia. A Baltic port city, it successively became the capital of the Królewiec Voivodeship, the State of the Teutonic Order, the Duchy of Prussia and the provinces of East Prussia and Prussia. Königsberg remained the coronation city of the Prussian monarchy, though the capital was moved to Berlin in 1701. Between the thirteenth and the twentieth centuries, the inhabitants spoke predominantly German, but the multicultural city also had a profound influence upon the Lithuanian and Polish cultures. The city was a publishing center of Lutheran literature, including the first Polish translation of the New Testament, printed in the city in 1551, the first book in Lithuanian and the first Lutheran catechism, ...
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