Charlotte Wilhelmine Eringarde Freiin Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim Sporleder (November 8, 1836 - January 9, 1915) was a German composer who won a medal at the
1893 Chicago World’s Fair. She published her music under the name Charlotte Sporleder.
Sporleder was born in
Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...
to Josepha von Warnsdorf and General Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim. She married Lt Col Justus Henrich Sporleder, who was 29 years her senior, in 1855 and was widowed in 1865.
Sporleder started piano lessons with her mother when she was six years old. She later studied music with
Otto Kraushaar
Otto Frederick Krausharr (November 19, 1901 – September 23, 1989) was an American professor of philosophy who served as the 6th president of Goucher College. Kraushaar was also a professor at Smith College for 15 years.
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and Friedrich Ruhl. She began publishing music in the late 1860s, producing at least 19 opus numbers. In 1877, Sporleder donated the proceeds from the sale of ''Rondo Capriccio'' towards building a monument honoring
Louis Spohr
Louis Spohr (, 5 April 178422 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig, was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Highly regarded during his lifetime, Spohr composed ten symphonies, ...
in Kassel. In 1893, she joined musicologist Anna Morsch to present a program of German music at the Chicago World Fair. She was awarded a medal from the World Fair and a special diploma from the Chicago Women’s Committee because she “contributed significantly to the success of the exhibition by sending in her beautiful and numerous compositions.”
Sporleder’s music was published by A. Michaelis,
Bote & Bock
Bote & Bock is a German publishing house founded in Berlin in 1838 by Eduard Bote and Gustav Bock (1813-1863).
The first Gustav Bock was a musically gifted publisher with an eye for opera. Eduard Bote withdrew from the business in 1847, after the ...
,
Johann Andre,
and Monopol Verlag.
Her compositions include:
Band
*some military band music
Chamber
*''Concertante (violin and piano)''
Piano
*''Grand Sonata''
*''Idylle for the Left Hand, opus 19
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*''Impromptu, opus 8
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*''Prussian Victory March, opus 14
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*''Rondo Capriccioso, opus 16 (also arranged for four hand piano)
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*''Valse Brillante''
Vocal
*“Dear, Hear Me, opus 6” (voice, violin and piano)
*“Der Vater ist am Steuer, opus 1”
*''Four Songs, opus 2'' (text by
Heinrich Heine
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of '' Lied ...
)
*''Four Songs, opus 15''
*''Two Songs, opus 11'' (text by Heinrich Heine)
*''Weihnachtslied'' (Christmas Carol), opus 20
References
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German women composers
1836 births
1896 deaths