Margarete Schweikert (16 February 1887 – 13 March 1957) was a German composer, music critic, violinist, and pianist who composed chamber music, approximately 160 songs, and a children's operetta, The Frog King. Margarete Schweikert 1909

Biography

Schweikert was born in

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

, the only child of Friedrich and Luise Petry Schweikert. Her father sold insurance and was also a music critic for ''Neue Stuttgarter Musikzeitun''g and ''Karlsruher Blätter''. He gave Schweikert her first violin lessons. Her mother played piano and helped her family manage the Jakob Petry Jewelry Store. Schweikert attended the Munz Conservatory and the Baden Conservatory (today the Baden University of Music). She studied with Heinrich Deecke, S. de Lange,

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, Max Herold, Theodor Munz, and Karl Wendling. Her first collection of songs, the ''Six Songs for a Singing Voice and Piano,'' was published in 1912. Her children's operetta ''The Frog King'', based on a text by Erika Ebert, premiered in 1913. During this time, she also gave violin recitals throughout southern Germany, sometimes including her own compositions on the programs. Schweikert married Hermann Voigt in 1923, and they had one daughter, Christiane, in 1924. A rule imposed in 1933, which restricted double work in families, affected Schweikert's ability to work on her music. She changed her name to Voigt-Schweikert, but continued to publish her music and writing under the name "Margarete Schweikert."

Works

Schweikert wrote music criticism for the

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, Karlsruher Tagblatt, Münchner Zeitung, and Neue Musikzeitung. Her music was published by Fritz Müller and Wunderhorn Verlag Munich. Shweikert composed over 160 songs, based on texts by

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, A. von Berchthold, Hans Beversdorff,

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, Victor August Eberhard Bluthgen, Adolf Bube, Georg Busse-Palma,

Georg Friedrich Daumer Georg Friedrich Daumer (Nuremberg, 5 March 1800 – Würzburg, 14 December 1875) was a German poet and philosopher. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native city, at that time directed by the famous philosopher Hegel. In 1817 he entered th ...

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, Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel, Hans Heinrich Ehrler, Paul Alfred Enderling, Erich Enke,

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, Friedrich Ludwig Konrad Fiedler, Casar Flaischlen,

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, Ernst Goll, Martin Greif, Eduard Rudolf Grisebach,

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, Heinrich Heine, Albert Herzog,

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, Max Hoffman, Friedrich Holderlin, Adolf Holst, Maria Tolk Janitschek, Ludwig Jungmann, Martha Kropp,

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, Else Lasker-Schuler, Ludwig Marohl, Georg Marrell, Carl Meissner, Otto Michaeli, Agnes Miegel,

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, Borries Baron von Munchhausen, Erminia von Natangen, Friedrich Heinrich Oser, Karl Pannier, Psalm 23, Psalm 104,

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, Fritz Romhildt, Carl Sacher, Margarete Sachse, Frieda Schanz, Ziska Luise Schember, Max Gottfried von Schenkendorf, Ernst Scherenberg, Wilhelm Schiffer,

Johannes Schlaf Johannes Schlaf (21 June 1862 in Querfurt – 2 February 1941 in Querfurt) was a German playwright, author, and translator and an important exponent of Naturalism. As a translator he was important for exposing the German-speaking world to the wor ...

, Gustav Schuler, Johannes Schweitzer, A. W. Stern, Maurice Reinhold von Stern,

Karl Stieler Karl Stieler (December 15, 1842 in Munich, Germany – April 12, 1885 in Munich) was a German lawyer and author. Life Stieler was the son of the painter Joseph Karl Stieler and his wife, the poet Josephine von Miller. After graduating from sch ...

, Marie Stona, Eva-Marie Stosch, Adolf Strodtmann,Julius Karl Reinhold Sturm, Auguste Supper,

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, Theowill Ubelacker, Ludwig Karl Vanselow, Heinrich Wilhelm Vierordt,

Walther von der Vogelweide Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170c. 1230) was a Minnesänger who composed and performed love-songs and political songs (" Sprüche") in Middle High German. Walther has been described as the greatest German lyrical poet before Goethe; his hundr ...

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, Artur von Wallpach, O. Wentorf, Wilhelmine Grafin Wickenburg-Almasy, and Ernst Zahn. In 1950 Schweikert became an expert advisor for music at the Karlsruhe Gemeinschaft Deutscher und Oesterreichischer Künstlerinnenvereine (GEDOK; Association of German and Austrian Female Artists). From 1955 until her death in 1957 she served as the director of GEDOK. Schweikert's papers are archived in the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe. They include piano and organ pieces, 160 songs, and chamber music, as well as her handwritten memoir.

Discography

*Antes Edition BM14.9001 German Piano Music *Antes Edition BM31.9207 Chamber Music *TYXart TXA16085 Margaret Schweikert Vocal Music *TYXart TXA16086 Margaret Schweikert Vocal Music *Bernhard Berchtold (tenor), Jeannette La Deur (piano) Schweikert: Im bitteren Menschenland (2018) (TYXart TXA16086) CD *Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano) Befreit: A Soul Surrendered (2023) ( Chandos CHAN20177) CD

External links

Download public domain sheet music by Margarete Schweikert.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schweikert, Margarete German women composers German women writers 1887 births 1957 deaths