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Hannah Mathilde von Rothschild (5 March 1832 – 8 March 1924) was a German-Jewish baroness, composer and patron.
Mathilde von Rothschild was born in Frankfurt, the second oldest daughter of Charlotte and
Life and career
Mathilde von Rothschild was born in Frankfurt, the second oldest daughter of Charlotte and Anselm von Rothschild
Anselm Salomon von Rothschild, baron (29 January 1803 – 27 July 1874) was an Austrian banker, founder of the Creditanstalt, and a member of the Vienna branch of the Rothschild family.
Family
He was born in the Imperial City of Frankfurt, the ...
, a chief of the Vienna House of Rothschild. Mathilde was talented in music and studied with Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leadin ...
. In 1849, she married the banker Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild, a cousin of her father. The couple first resided in the Rothschild house on the Zeil (Zeilpalast), but later moved to a palace in Grüneburg, and also lived in a villa in Königstein im Taunus. They had three daughters two of whom survived childhood, Adelheid Rothschild (who married her cousin Edmond James de Rothschild) and Minna Caroline Rothschild (who married Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild
Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (20 June 1843 – 18 February 1940) was a German banker and art collector. The son of Benedict Hayum Salomon Goldschmidt, he was the co-inheritor of the Goldschmidt family bank along with his brother Adolphe ...
).
Von Rothschild made grants to a number of foundations including The Rothschilds' Hospital Foundation and the Georgine Sara von Rothschilds' Hospital Foundation. She also funded orphanages, sanatoriums, rest homes for the elderly, research projects for the University of Heidelberg and The Jewish Museum of Antiquities. She also founded the at Frankfurt am Main.
Von Rothschild wrote songs for singers including Selma Kurz
Selma Kurz (15 October 1874 – 10 May 1933) was an Austrian operatic dramatic coloratura soprano known for her brilliant coloratura technique.
Background
Selma Kurz was born in Bielsko-Biała to a very humble Jewish family of eleven childr ...
and Adelina Patti. In 1878 she published a volume of 30 melodies in which we find two poems by Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...
: "Vieille chanson du jeune temps" and "Si vous n'avez rien à me dire" (cf. Bibliothèque nationale de France
The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository ...
). In the late 1880s, she published a volume of twelve songs titled ''Zwölf Lieder für Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung'' which featured the work of several poets set to music, including poet and dramatist Franz von Dingelstedt, epic poet Friedrich von Bodenstedt, Frankfurt writer Wilhelm Jordan Wilhelm Jordan may refer to:
* Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan (1819–1904), known as Wilhelm Jordan, German writer and politician
* Wilhelm Jordan (geodesist) (1842–1899), German scientist, noted for the Gauss–Jordan elimination algorithm
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, Russian writer Alexey Tolstoy and French writer and librettist Paul Collin. She amassed an art collection including old masters and also the work of popular artists including Gerard Dou, Jan Steen and Gabriel Metsu.
Recorded works
*''The Songs of Mathilde de Rothschild'' Charlotte de Rothschild (soprano), Adrian Farmer (piano) 2CD NimbusReferences
External links
* http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_settings.html?ComposerId=5557 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rothschild, Mathilde Hannah von 1832 births 1924 deaths 19th-century classical composers 20th-century classical composers German baronesses Jewish classical composers Musicians from Frankfurt German Romantic composers Mathilde Hannah von German women classical composers 19th-century German composers 20th-century German composers Women classical composers 20th-century women composers 19th-century women composers