Description

GRETE EWELER-FROBOESE (BORN MARGARETE EWELER, ESSEN, 1899 – DIED AFTER 1959)

Grete Eweler received her first lessons in Essen from the concertmaster there, Alexander Cosmann. As early as 1912, she performed a violin concerto by Charles-Auguste de Bériot, accompanied by her sister Marta (also Martha) Eweler (piano). From 1916 to 1920, she studied at the Cologne Conservatory of Music as a student of Bram Eldering. During her studies, in October 1919, she won half of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy State Scholarship for performing musicians.

Between 1927 and 1930, she appeared on numerous Homocord records as a soloist (often accompanied by Felix Günter), leader of a salon orchestra, or vocal accompanist. In a review in the Viennese newspaper Freiheit!, she was described as an “excellent violinist.” In early 1936, she married the pathologist Curt Froboese in Seeburg and moved from Düsseldorf to Berlin, where she continued her career as Grete Eweler-Froboese until at least 1959, making recordings with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, among others.

TRACKLIST

1. Adagio (Schubert) Walter Venus (cello) Homocord 4-2681 T. M. 20375
2. Der Alte Stephansturm Wiener Volkslied (Kreisler) Homocord 4-2339 M 19147
3. Friederike (Lehar) Großes Potpourri Homocord 4-8975, 4-8975, T. M. 460, T. M. 461
4. Melodie op. 162 (Paderewski-Kreisler) Homocord 4-2273 M 19061
5. Menuett (Paderewski-Kreisler) Homocord 4-2273 M 19060
6. O Du Fröhliche, O Du Selige Homocord 4-2020 T. M. 20390
7. Rondo (Schubert) Homocord 4-2681 T. M. 20376
8. Schön Rosmarin (Kreisler) Homocord 4-2339 M 19159
9. Stille Nacht Weihnachtslied Homocord 2-2021 T. M. 20682
10. Wilde Rosen (Lehar) Homocord H-63400