Jacobi, Constanze |
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BORN 2 Feb 1824, Altenburg, Thüringen - DIED 23 Nov 1896, Dresden, Sachsen BIRTH NAME Jacobi, Constanze Erdmundi GRAVE LOCATION Dresden, Sachsen: Alter Annenfriedhof, Chemnitzer Strasse 32 (W 175 ) |
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Constanze Jacobi was among the first students of the recently founded conservatory in Leipzig. She studied piano and singing under Henriette Grabau-Bünau, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Robert Schumann. Schumann considered her to be one of his best students and she was often a guest at his house between 1848 and 1850. In 1849 he dedicated a composition to her. She performed in Leipzig and Dresden, initially both as pianist and later only as a singer (soprano and alt). After the Schumanns moved to Düsseldorf in 1854 she visited them there. By the end of the 1850s she worked as a music teacher in Dresden. She married the actor Bogumil Dawison on 3 January 1861. She accompanied him on his tours, including a tour in the USA in 1866-1867. After his death in 1872 she lived in Dresden, where she died in 1896. Family • Husband: Dawison, Bogumil (1861-1872) Related persons • was pupil of Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix • was pupil of Schumann, Robert |
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 The grave of Bogumil Dawison and Constanze Jacobi at the Alter Annenfriedhof, Dresden. Picture by Androom (06 Aug 2016) |
