Grove's dictionary of music and musicians

384 SCHUNKE SCHUPPANZIGH
'
Ero e Leandro.' From 1896 to 1906 she has
been in continued request at Bayreuth, having
in the meantime sung with great success in
America, at Berlin as Carmen, etc., and elsewhere.
In 1903 she gave, a vocal recital in
London, and on Dec. 12 sang Mozart's 'Non
pii di fiori' at the Queen's Hall. She has
been twice married ; iirst in 1883 to Herr
Heink, secondly, in 1893, to Herr Paul Schumann.
A. c.
SCHUNKE, Louis (LuDvyio), pianoforte
player and composer, born of a musical family
at Cassel, Dec. 21, 1810. His progress was so
rapid that at ten he could play the Concertos
of Mozart and Hummel with ease. In 1824 he
visited Munich and Vienna, and then Paris,
where he put himself under Kalkbrenner and
Keicha. After some wandering to Stuttgart,
Vienna (1832), Prague, and Dresden he came
to Leipzig, where he made the acquaintance of
Schumann, and an intimate friendship was the
result. Sohunke was carried off on Dec. 7,
1834, at the early age of not quite twentyfour,
to thegreat griefofSchumann, who indulged
his affefction in several interesting papers (Ges.
Schrift. i. 92, 325 ; ii. 56, 277) full of memorials
of his friend's characteristics. Sohunke was
one of the four who edited the Neue Zeitschri/t
fiir Mmik on its first appearance. His articles
are signed with the figure 3. His published
compositions are for the piano, and show considerable
ability. G.
SCHUPPANZIGH, Ignaz, celebrated violinist,
born 1776, in Vienna, where his father
was a professor at the Eealschule. He adopted
music as a profession about the end of 1792, and
that he early became known as a teacher we
gather from an entry in Beethoven's diary
for 1794, Schuppanzigh ' three times a week,
Albreohtsberger three times a week. ' Beethoven
was studying the viola, which was at that time
Sohuppanzigh's instrument, but he soon after
abandoned it for the violin. Before he was
twenty-one he had made some name as a conductor,
and in 1798 and 17 99 directed the Augartenconcerts.
'ntsAllg. mus. Zeittmgo{Ma,y 1769,
after describing the concerts, remarks that ' the
zeal shown by Herr Schuppanzigh in interpreting
the compositions produced, makes these concerts
models worth following by all amateur associations
of the kind, and by many conductors.'
Beethoven, who had also appeared at the Augarten
concerts, kept up a singular kind of friendship
with Schuppanzigh. They were so useful
to each other that, as Thayer says, they had
n, great mutual liking, if it did not actually
amount to affection. Schuppanzigh was goodlooking,
though later in life he grew very fat,
and had to put up with many a joke on the
'
subject from Beethoven. Mylord Falstaff ' was
one of his nicknames (letter to Archduke in
Nohl, Neue Briefe, p. 75). The following piece
of rough drollery, scrawled by Beethoven on a
—
blank page at the end of his Sonata op. 28, is
here printed for the first time :
'
Lob OMfden Dicken.
Soli.^
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Schup - pan - z]gli Ist eln Lump, Lump, Lump, Wer
auf-ge-blaa-nen E • aelakopf, O Lump Schup-pan-zigh, O
ChoT.
fe^s^i^i
Char.
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Schuppanzigh was a great quartet-player, and
belonged to the party which met every Friday
during 1794 and 1795 at Prince Carl Lichnowsky's,
where he took the first violin, the Prince
himself, or a Silesian named Sina, the second,
Weiss the viola, and Kraft, a thorough artist, the
violoncello—occasionally changing with Beethoven's
friend, Zmeskall. Towards the close of
1808 Schuppanzigh founded the Rasoumowsky
quartet, to which he, Mayseder and Linke,
remained attached for life. "Weiss again took
the viola. Beethoven's quartets were the staple
of their performances. In the meantime Schuppanzigh
had married a Fraulein Kilitzky, the
sister of a well-known singer, who sang with
little success Ah ' perfido ! ' at a concert of Beethoven's
in 1808, instead of Anna Milder. On
this occasion the great joker writes to Graf
Brunswick, ' Schuppanzigh is married—they say
his wife is as fat as himself—what a family ? 1
(Nohl, Neue Briefe, p. 11.) "When the Rasoumowsky
palace was burnt down in 1816 Schuppanzigh
started on a tour through Germany,
Poland, and Russia, and did not return till
early in 1'824, when the quartets were resumed
with the same band of friends (see Beethoven's
letters to his nephew, 1825). One of the first