Schweikert/ Tomsche - Lost Love

Margarete Schweikert was born on the 16th of February, 1887 in Karlsruhe, the residency of the former Margrave of Baden. She remained the only child of her parents Luise and Friedrich Schweikert. Both were interested in music- Luise played the piano, Friedrich the violin. They also sang with their only daughter. At the age of 14, Margarete left the lyceum and concentrated on her musical education at the Munz'sche Konservatorium in Karlsruhe, where she studied violin, piano and singing. At the Badisches Konservatorium, the precursor of the Badische Hochschule für Musik (Baden University of Music), she was taught the violin by Heinrich Deecke, first violinist of the Großherzoglich Badische Hofkapelle (Court Orchestra of the Margrave of Baden) and in music theory and composition by Max Herold. During her studies, Margarete Schweikert began to perform as a violinist in Karlsruhe. For her concerts, again and again, she wrote new songs and combined them with compositions for the violin. This release from vocalists Diana Tomsche and Armin Kolarczyk and pianist Jeannette La-Deur presents Margarete's songs for soprano and baritone, with text based on poems by Goethe, Falke, Kropp, Schuler, and Stona.