Luise Adolpha Le Beau’s father, whose main occupation was as a member of the Baden War Office, took on the ambitious task of her education, starting with piano lessons when she was six years old. He also extended his pedagogical efforts to other subjects then generally taught in schools, with the result that Luise lived and learnt almost exclusively at home. The (spatially) close relationship with her parents was to continue until their deaths (1896 and 1900). A few teachers and key points in her artistic career are piano lessons with Johannes Kalliwoda, singing lessons with Ernst Melchior Sachs, composition studies with Josef Rheinberger in Munich, as well as encouragement from Hans von Bülow. She toured successfully as a pianist. In her memoirs, written in 1910, she talks about a few unpleasant lessons with Clara Schumann. This is the autobiographical documentation of the conflicting relationship that then existed between social models and the personal desire for artistic development, a conflict with which Luise Adopha Le Beau had to contend in her capacity as female composer in the second half of the nineteenth century. Although numerous positive reviews of her works reveal a picture of a successful composer, in reality, she increasingly interpreted a lack of recognition as a whole as a personal setback and withdrew from public life. She made two copies of each of her works (some 150 compositions, including one opera) and deposited one copy of the complete works in Berlin and one in Munich.
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