Symphonies:
No. 6, C major (D589), 372
No. [7], E major (D729), 492–493
No. 8, B minor (D759; Unfinished ), 225
No. 9, C major (D944; Great ), 372, 373, 387, 393, 400, 411, 472
Der Tod und das Mädchen (D531), 179
Trio, piano, B ♭ major (D898), 326
Winterreise (D911), 79
Schuberth & Co. (music publisher), 414
Schubring, Julius (1806–1889; theologian), 147, 164, 172, 193, 194, 206, 227, 268, 285, 294, 310, 341, 350, 354, 371, 391, 492, 508, 521, 522, 553
Schünemann, Georg (1884–1945; musicologist), 123, 198
Schulz, Johann Abraham Peter (1747–1800; composer, conductor), 502
Schumann, Clara née Wieck (1819–1896; composer, pianist), xxviii, 84, 95, 127, 253–254, 298, 302, 307, 309, 310, 311, 327, 350, 371, 372, 384, 394, 404, 405, 409, 411, 412, 425, 442, 444, 445, 457, 458, 464, 469–470, 499, 510, 511, 512, 513, 532, 544
Schumann, Robert (1810–1856; composer), xix, xx, xxiii, xxv, xxvii, xxix, 127, 145, 159, 232, 241, 262, 270, 285, 289, 298, 306–307, 308, 309, 310, 315, 316, 326, 327, 331, 335, 336, 361, 362, 367, 372, 377, 379, 382, 384, 389, 391–392, 393, 394, 397, 401, 404, 407, 410, 414, 415, 425, 431, 442, 445, 450, 451, 457, 463, 464, 469, 510, 511, 512, 514, 518, 532, 536, 567, 585n77, 613n56
Carnaval (Op. 9), 303, 393
Concerto, piano, A minor (Op. 54), 510
Fugues on BACH (Op. 60), 401–402, 487
Genoveva (Op. 81), 425
Kinderscenen (Op. 15), 437
Overture, Scherzo and Finale (Op. 52), 511
Papillons (Op. 2), 195–196
Das Paradies und die Peri (Op. 50), 76, 469
Quartet, piano, E ♭ major (Op. 47), 510
Quartets, strings (Op. 41), 441–442
Quintet, piano, E ♭ major (Op. 44), 449
Studien für den Pedal-Flügel (Op. 56), 377
Symphonies:
G minor (1832/3), 307
No. 1, B ♭ major (Op. 38, Spring ), 411, 500
No. 2, C major (Op. 61), 532
Toccata, piano, C major (Op. 7), 298
Trio, piano, D minor (Op. 63), 455
Waldesgespräch (Liederkreis , Op. 39, No. 3), 562
Schunck, Hélène Elisabeth. See Souchay.
Schunck, Julie née Jeanrenaud (1816–1875; Cécile’s sister), 330, 354, 376
Schunck, Julie Louisa née Bauer (1789–1862; Cécile’s great-aunt), 359
Schunck, Julius (1809–1889; Cécile’s brother-in-law), 376
Schunck, Souchay & Co. (merchants), 323
Schunke, Christian Ludwig (1810–1834; composer, pianist), 303
Schweitzer, Albert (1875–1965; organist, theologian), 46
Schwencke, Christian Friedrich Gottlieb (1767–1822; composer, pianist), 123
Schwerin, 390, 401
Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832; writer), 62, 212, 214, 216, 217, 227, 243–244, 434, 436, 484
Scribe, Eugène (1791–1861; dramatist), 69, 269, 424, 541–542
Sebastiani, Fanny. See Choiseul-Praslin.
Sebastiani, Comte Horace-François Bastien (1772–1851; diplomat, general), 19, 30
Sechter, Simon (1788–1867; composer, organist, theorist), 231
Sederholm, Karl (1789–1867; pastor), 391
Sedlatzek, Johann (b. 1789; flutist), 259
Seeburg, Moritz (b. 1794; jurist), 451
Seeligman, Marianne. See Mendelssohn. Seeligman, Rebecka née Salomon (1776–1810; aunt), 586n1
Servais, Adrian François (1807–1866; cellist), 469, 471
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616; dramatist), 21, 72, 161–162, 164, 165, 209, 219, 238, 251, 272, 286, 297, 322, 328, 359, 372, 419, 438, 445, 458, 459, 463, 472, 481, 483, 484, 541, 560, 599n46
Shaw, George Bernard (1856–1950; author, critic), xxiv–xxv, 547
Shaw, Mary née Postans (1814–1876; contralto), 356, 370, 372
Sheppard, Elizabeth Sara (1830–1862; writer) Charles Auchester , xxii–xxiii
Silbermann, Andreas (1678–1734; Alsatian organ builder), 349
Simrock, Carl Joseph (1802–1876; writer) Warnung vor dem Rhein , 611n91
Simrock (music publisher), 243, 250, 261, 302, 303, 311, 325, 327, 350, 372, 412, 414, 441, 514, 515, 537, 566
Singakademie. See Berlin.
Smart, Sir George (1776–1867; composer, conductor, organist), 148, 204, 205, 206, 207, 213, 259, 304, 325, 326, 356, 357
Smend, Friedrich (1893–1980; musicologist), 123, 198
Smithson, Harriet Constance (1800–1854; actress), 239
Soden. See Bad Soden.
Sohn, Carl Ferdinand (1805–1867; painter), 236, 245, 292, 293
Sontag, Henriette (1806–1854; soprano), 206, 207
Sophocles (496?-406 B.C.; dramatist), 444, 492, 501
Soret, Frédéric Jacob (1795–1865; scientist), 586n15
Souchay, Cornelius Carl (1768–1838; Cécile’s grandfather), 323–324, 358
Souchay, Elisabeth Wilhelmina. See Jeanrenaud.
Souchay, Hélène Elisabeth née Schunck (1744–1851; Cécile’s grandmother), 326, 352
Souchay, Henriette. See Benecke.
Souchay, Jean-Daniel (1736–1811; Cécile’s great-grandfather), 324
Souchay, Jean Daniel (1798–1871; Cécile’s uncle), 438
Souchay, Marc André (1796–1868; Cécile’s cousin), 442, 443
Souchay, Thekla née Schunck (1809–1876; Cécile’s aunt), 438
Souchay family, 317, 323, 324, 325, 358, 494
Speyer, Wilhelm (1790–1878; composer, violinist), 135
Spinoza, Baruch (1632–1677; Dutch philosopher), 7
Spohr, Louis (1784–1859; composer, violinist), 98, 135, 149, 202, 205, 225, 296, 298, 308, 315, 329, 337, 341, 371, 387, 388, 409–410, 431, 444, 448, 469, 486, 494, 509, 511, 521, 529, 588n93
Spontini, Gaspare (1774–1851; composer, conductor), 19, 64, 76, 77, 79, 80, 87, 117, 125, 126, 156, 167–168, 196, 198, 280, 384, 396, 418, 428, 485
Sposato, Jeffrey S. (b. 1967; musicologist), xxviii, 30, 132, 197, 208, 267, 283, 338, 381, 552–553, 556
Spurzheim, Johann Christoph (1776–1832; phrenologist), 209–210
Stadler, Anton (1753–1812; clarinetist, composer), 581n41
Stadler, Abbé Maximilian (1748–1833; composer, historian), 231
Stägemann, Carl Philipp (baptism witness, Berlin, 1816), 576n38
Stägemann, Elisabeth von (1761–1835; wife of F. A.), 37
Stägemann, Friedrich August von (1763–1840; Prussian privy councilor), 37
Staehelin, Martin (b. 1937; musicologist), 514, 554
Staël, Madame de (Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Staël-Holstein, 1766–1817; writer), 12, 19, 83
Staffa, Isle of, 215–216, 243
Stamaty, Camille (1811–1870; composer, pianist), 327
Staudigl, Joseph (1807–1861; Austrian bass), 525, 529, 538, 545
Stegemann, Johann Jakob (1760–1820; Protestant minister, Berlin), 31, 33, 73
Stein, Carl von (1800–1871; grandson of Charlotte), 36
Stein, Charlotte von (1742–1827; poet), 36, 83
Stein, Werner (1855–1930; sculptor), xxi
Steinbeck, W. (d. 1838; Brandenburg Justizrat, Singverein conductor), 191
Steinberg, Michael Philip (b. 1956; musicologist), 419
Steinbrück, Eduard (1802–1882; painter), 355
Stendhal (Marie Henri Beyle, 1783–1842; writer), 143, 144, 227, 234
Stenzel, Gustav Adolf Harald (1792–1854; tutor), 34, 71, 72
Sterndale Bennett, William. See Bennett.
Stettin (Szczecin), 156, 167
Stieler, Joseph Karl (1781–1858; portraitist), 228
Stimpson, James (Birmingham chorus master, 1846), 522, 545
Stör, Carl (b. 1813 or 14; violinist), 387
Stokowski, Leopold (1882–1977; conductor), 389
Storck, Adam (1780–1822; translator), 62
Stradel
la, Alessandro (1639–1682; composer), 528
Strauß, Friedrich Adolph (1817–1888; Berlin preacher), 466
Strauss, Johann (1804–1849; composer, conductor, violinist), 328
Strauss, Richard (1864–1949; composer), xxi
Streicher, Johann Baptist (1796–1871; piano maker), 227, 231
Streicher, Nanette née Stein (1769–1833; piano maker), 84
Stümer, Joh. Daniel Heinrich (1789–1857; tenor), 66, 68, 90, 117, 196
Stuttgart, 98, 177, 250
Suggate, Alfred Albert (Leipzig Conservatory student, 1846), 538
Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour (1842–1900; composer), xxii, 493
Sulzer, Johann Georg (1720–1779; aesthetician), 4
Surman, Joseph (1804–1871; conductor, music editor), 357
Sutherland, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower, Duchess of (1806–1868), 366
Swift, Jonathan (1667–1745; English satirist), 228
Szczecin. See Stettin.
Tacitus, Cornelius (55?-after 117; Roman historian), 143
Taglioni, Marie (1804–1884; dancer), 252
Taubert, Wilhelm (1811–1891; composer, conductor, pianist), 37, 414, 442, 456, 457, 464, 468, 469, 569
Taylor, James Bayard (1825–1878; author), 493–494
Taylor, John (1779–1863; mine owner), 217
Taylor family, 217, 275, 356
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il’yich (1840–1893; composer), 425, 599n65
Tennyson, Alfred, Baron (1809–1892; poet), xxiv, xxv, 216
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer, 185–159 B.C.; playwright) Andria , 154, 420
Teschner, Gustav Wilhelm (1800–1883; singer), 577n100
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811–1863; novelist), 84, 227, 474, 576n35
Thalberg, Sigismund (1812–1871; composer, pianist), 334, 371, 409, 412–413, 414, 415, 425, 430, 438, 473, 545
Theremin, Franz (1780–1846; theologian, translator), 301
Therese, Queen of Bavaria (1792–1854), 249
Thibaut, Anton Friedrich Justus (1772–1840; jurist), 177, 181, 183, 285, 351
Thompson, Francis Arabella (Fanny) née Horsley (1815–1849), 284, 289, 558
Thomson, John (1805–1841; Scottish composer, scholar), 64, 168, 176, 214, 390
Thorvaldsen, Bertel (1770–1844; Danish sculptor), 237, 566
Tichatschek, Joseph (1807–1886; Bohemian tenor), 444
Tieck, Ludwig (1773–1853; dramatist, poet), 20, 21, 37, 168, 375, 407, 419, 420, 421, 424, 444, 458–459, 484, 499
Tölken, Ernst Heinrich (1786–1869; archaeologist), 185
Toselli, Giovanni (Glass harmonica player from Ferrara, 1840), 387–388
Touchon, Daniel August (1786–1850; Huguenot pastor, friend of Jeanrenauds), 529
Tovey, Sir Donald Francis (1875–1940; musicologist), xxv, 374
Treitschke, Heinrich von (1834–1896; historian), 51
Türrschmidt, Auguste (1800–1866; alto), 196
Turle, James (1802–1882; composer, organist), 358
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775–1851; painter), 209, 216, 233, 260
Uhland, Johann Ludwig (1787–1862; poet), 223, 248, 250, 375, 456, 484, 536
Urhan, Chrétien (1790–1845; composer, violist), 142
Varnhagen von Ense, Karl August (1785–1858; critic, diplomat), 50–51, 68, 126, 128, 289–290, 310, 445, 464, 499, 573n49
Varnhagen von Ense, Rahel Antonie Friederike née Levin (1771–1833; critic, diarist), 13, 20, 196, 290
Veit, Jonas (later Johann) (1790–1854; painter, cousin), 20, 23
Veit, Philipp (1793–1877; painter, cousin), 20, 21, 22, 23, 32, 236, 237, 250, 317, 320, 376, 574n87, plate 13
Veit, Philipp Joseph (banker, brother of Simon), 18
Veit, Simon (1754–1819; banker, uncle), 2, 20, 23, 574n87
Venice, 157, 233, 234, 235, 246, 309, 322, 402, 428, 443
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813–1901; composer), 560, 620n81
Verhulst, Johannes (1816–1891; Dutch composer), 325, 425
Verkenius, Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm (1776–1841; choral director in Cologne), 286, 352, 418
Vernet, Horace (1789–1863; painter), 237, 304, 402
Viardot, Pauline née García (1821–1910; mezzo-soprano), 403, 457
Victoria, Empress of Germany (1840–1901), xxiv
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1819–1901), xx, 175, 216, 366, 438–439, 473, 491, 504, 529, 545, 546, 547, 555, 624n110
Victoria, Tomás Luis de (1548–1611; Spanish composer), 231, 240, 517
Vienna, 11, 12, 22, 28, 29, 44, 86, 134, 146, 148, 162, 201, 204, 230–232, 233, 360, 371, 372, 376, 384, 492, 515, 566
Vienna, Congress of (1814–1815), 12, 32, 97, 134
Vieuxtemps, Henri (1820–1881; violinist), 359, 525
Viotti, Giovanni Battista (1755–1824; composer, violinist), 35, 96, 364
Vittoria. See Victoria.
Vogel, Elise. See Polko.
Vogler, Abbé Georg Joseph (1749–1814; theorist), 43, 364
Voigt, Henriette née Kuntze (1808–1839; pianist), 302, 303, 306, 309, 326
Voigts, Friedrich (1792–1861; writer), 168
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet, 1694–1778; writer), 69, 100, 267
Voss, J. N. (pseud.) See Droysen, J. G.
Voss, Johann Heinrich (1751–1826; poet), 589n54
Wach, Adolf (1843–1926; son-in-law), 499
Wach, Fanny Henriette Elisabeth (Lili) née Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1845–1910; daughter), 499
Wach, Joachim (1898–1955; great-grandson), 132
Wackenroder, Wilhelm Heinrich (1773–1798; writer), 20
Wagner, Cosima née Liszt (1837–1930; wife of Richard), 316
Wagner, Friedrich (1770–1813; police chief, father of Richard), 32
Wagner, Richard (1813–1883; composer), xx, xxiii, xxvii, 127, 222, 261, 285, 316, 435, 444, 451, 453, 469, 493, 498, 521, 561, 616n96; on FMB, xx, xxii, xxiii, xxvxxvi, 316, 435, 451, 453, 469, 511
Columbus , 316
Die Feen , 316
Der fliegende Holländer , 435, 469
Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft , 397
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , 221, 395
Parsifal , 225
Das Rheingold , 288
Rienzi , 438, 444
Symphony, C major, 316
Der Tag erscheint , 453
Tannhäuser , 127, 444, 511, 512
Ward Jones, Peter (b. 1944; musicologist), 47, 123, 276, 350, 484, 567
Warrack, John Hamilton (b. 1928; musicologist), 561
Wasielewski, Wilhelm Joseph von (1822–1896; biographer, violinist), 451
Watts, William (secretary of Philharmonic Society of London, 1815–1847), 206, 276
Webb, John (1776–1869; librettist) Rachel in Ramah , 492
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786–1826; composer, pianist, music critic), 19, 57, 73, 80–81, 84, 105, 110, 113, 121, 122, 125, 126, 129, 145, 148, 155, 205, 266, 286, 293, 296, 313, 314, 315, 364, 429, 438, 449, 464, 493, 513, 516, 588n93
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