Catharina Josepha Pratten (15 November 1824 – 10 October 1895) was a German guitar virtuoso, composer and teacher, also known as Madame Sidney Pratten.
She was born Catharina Josepha Pelzer in
Mülheim
Mülheim, officially Mülheim an der Ruhr () and also described as ''"City on the River"'', is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is located in the Ruhr Area between Duisburg, Essen, Oberhausen and Ratingen. It is home to many compa ...
on the 15 November 1824,
[see Nicoletta Confalone in "il Fronimo" n.181, Jan. 2018, who at p.21, note 3. refers about the discovery by Ulrich Wedemeier of the birth certificate] the daughter of the German guitarist and music teacher
Ferdinand Pelzer.
On 24 September 1854, she married the flautist
Robert Sidney Pratten.
She died on 10 October 1895. She is buried at
Brompton Cemetery
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, London.
Her guitar was advertised for sale in ''
The Times
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'' in "splendid condition" in 1939.
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1824 births
1895 deaths
19th-century guitarists
Burials at Brompton Cemetery
Composers for the classical guitar
19th-century German composers
German classical composers
19th-century German women musicians
19th-century women composers
German classical guitarists
German women classical composers
German expatriates in the United Kingdom
People from Mülheim
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