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Victoria Bachke (7 July 1896 – 19 November 1963) was a Russian born, Norwegian musician and museum director. She is most widely known as the founder and first director of
Victoria Bachke (7 July 1896 – 19 November 1963) was a Russian born, Norwegian musician and museum director. She is most widely known as the founder and first director of Ringve Museum
Ringve Museum is Norway's national museum for music and musical instruments, with collections from all over the world.
Background
Ringve Museum is located in the historic Ringve Farm in Trondheim. Ringve Farm was the childhood home of the Danish- ...
, the national museum of music and musical instruments at Lade, Trondheim
Lade (Old Norse: ''Hlaðir'') is a neighborhood in the city of Trondheim in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is in the borough of Østbyen, just northeast of the city centre of Midtbyen and north of the Lademoen neighborhood. Lade is located on a ...
, Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
.
Biography
Victoria Rostin was born inMoscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
in the Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
. She was the daughter of Michael Rostin and Sophie Rostin. Michael was a senior engineer with the Russian state railways. She and her eight brothers and sisters grew up in a cultured environment. Music and singing was important for the family. Victoria played both cello
The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...
and piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...
.
In March 1914, Victoria and her elder sister Valentine Rostin (1887-1940) toured Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...
. Valentine was an opera singer, and performed a lot of concerts all over Europe. They entered Trondheim
Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...
at 1917. Valentine Rostin became the new prima donna at Trondheim's theater after the role of Violetta in the play La Traviata
''La traviata'' (; ''The Fallen Woman'') is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on ''La Dame aux camélias'' (1852), a play by Alexandre Dumas ''fils'' adapted from his own 18 ...
. Valentine married the conductor Morten Svendsen (1878-1959).
Ringve Museum
In 1920 Victoria married businessman and estate owner Christian Anker Bachke (1873-1946), son of Anton Sophus Bachke (1836-1919) owner of Ringve Manor. The couple lived at Ringve Manor and assembled a large collection of historical musical instruments. In 1943 Ringve Manor was willed to the Ringve Museum foundation. Ringve Museum (''Ringve Musikkmuseum'') is situated in the former Ringve Manor and was opened to the public in 1952. The museum principally displays the former private collection of Christian and Victoria Bachke.References
Other sources
*Voigt, Jan (1984) ''Fru Victoria til Ringve'' (Oslo: Cappelen) *Dugstad, Jorunn (2017) ''Victoria med vilje og kjærlighet'' (Communicatio forl.) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bachke, Victoria 1896 births 1963 deaths People from Moscow People from Moskovsky Uyezd Russian women musicians Directors of museums in Norway Women museum directors Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Norway