Description

FRIEDA KWAST-HODAPP (HELMSTADT-BARGEN, AUGUST 13, 1880 – BAD WIESSEE, SEPTEMBER 14, 1949)

She was a student of Max Reger. From 1887 to 1891 she studied as a free student at Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. From 1891 to 1898 she studied at Hoch Conservatory. After her first appearance in Darmstadt in 1899, she began her career in 1901 with a concert tour to St. Petersburg and Moscow. Then followed an extensive concert activity in Germany and almost all European countries, alongside teaching. After giving up her concert activity in 1932, she started to give master classes in Heidelberg in 1934. She was married to the Dutch-German music educator James Kwast; after his death she married Otto Krebs shortly before his death in 1941. In 1898 she received the Mendelssohn Prize in Berlin. James Kwast and Frieda Hodapp were awarded the Mecklenburg-Strelitz Orden für Kunst und Wissenschaft in Gold in 1912.

TRACKLIST

3408 CHOPIN – Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 58, b 2nd and 3rd mvts.

3409 CHOPIN – Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 58, b 4th mvt.

3410 WELTE-MIGNON LISZT – Transcendental Etude No. 8, c Wilde Jagd (Wild Hunt)

3413 WELTE-MIGNON REGER – Variations and Fugue on Theme of Telemann, Op. 134, Part 1

3414 WELTE-MIGNON REGER – Variations and Fugue on Theme of Telemann, Op. 134, Part 2