Agnes Street-Klindworth, also Agnes Denis-Street,[1] was the illegitimate daughter of journalist, actor and diplomat Georg Klindworth (1798–1882) and a Danish actress named Brigitta Bartels (1786–1864).[2]

Biography

She was born on 19 October 1825 in Bremen, Germany.[3] She arrived in Weimar in 1853, as one of Peter Cornelius' pupils for harmony.[2] Shortly after she began having piano lessons with Franz Liszt, whom she befriended and maintained a vast correspondence with between the spring of 1855 and 1861, when he finally took up residence in Rome.[4]

Agnes gave birth to her first son named Ernst August Georg, known as George Street, on 21 January 1854. Her second child with her husband Captain Ernst Denis-Street was named Charles, born on 18 July 1855.[4] Her third child was named Fernande (16 December 1856 – 23 August 1857), daughter of the composer and revolutionary activist Ferdinand Lassalle. Henri, her illegitimate fourth child, was probably raised as a foster child by another family or died like his sister.[4]

She moved to Paris with Ernst and her two sons in February 1868. She died in the surroundings of Paris on 25 December 1906 at the age of 81.[4]

References

  1. ^ Mary Whittall, Andrew Gray (1983). My Life. Cambridge University Press. p. 782. ISBN 978-0521229296.
  2. ^ a b Pocknell, Pauline (2000). Franz Liszt and Agnes Street-Klindworth: A Correspondence, 1854-1886. p. xxix. ISBN 9781576470060. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
  3. ^ Walker, Alan (1986). "Liszt and Agnes Street-Klindworth: A Spy in the Court of Weimar ?". Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 28 (1/4). Akadémiai Kiadó: 47–63. JSTOR 902409. OCLC 180654184.
  4. ^ a b c d Walker, Alan (1993). Franz Liszt: The Weimar Years, 1848-61. Vol. 2. Cornell University Press. pp. 221–224. ISBN 978-0801497216.
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